Boerne, Kerrville, Fredericksburg (Change Location)

Meet Our Team

We believe every family in the area deserves tailor made in-home senior care with a compassionate touch. That's why we established Home Instead® of Boerne, TX.

Home Instead Caregiver helps senior woman unload groceries from vehicle

Our Mission

We are committed to extending Christ’s love by providing exceptional care through elevating and serving clients, their families, employees, and our community.

 

Our Vision

We want to be the best and most trusted home care provider and employer of choice in our community.

Our Promise

As a locally owned business, our team offers friendly, responsive service right in your neighborhood. Families love our team because we:

Do what we say we’re going to do – each and every time

Solve care problems using compassionate, person-centered solutions

Engage in thoughtful relationships with the families we serve

Give back to our community

About Us
Meet Our Team
Jeremy and Sylvia Farber, Owners

Jeremy and Sylvia Farber, Owners

Jeremy has worked in higher education and healthcare, including the healthcare community in central and south Texas, for over 20 years. He has built strong relationships with neurologists and the medical community in the surrounding area. In college, Jeremy worked as a care giver and has fond memories of escorting his elderly friend to the country club!  

Sylvia has worked in the special needs field her entire career and serves as an advocate to families with children with special needs. She worked as a care giver to children while she was in college, one being a live-in position.

Additionally, Jeremy and Sylvia have personal experience understanding the challenges, complexities, and joys of being a care giver to a loved one, as their daughter has a rare genetic syndrome. Jeremy and Sylvia feel their professional and personal experiences have prepared them well to serve you and/or your loved one. They are deeply passionate about serving others and believe their clients and families deserve dignity and compassion. Their strongest desire is to provide compassionate care within a strong culture of excellence.

Maria Harrington, Home Care Consultant

Maria Harrington, General Manager

​Maria Harrington started as the Home Care Consultant for Home Instead and before transitioning to the role of General Manager in April 2024. 


Maria shares a vibrant life with her husband Dan and three children Lyla, Jonah and Jesse and a sweet malti-poo Ringo Star. They have lived all over Southwest Texas but find themselves currently living in San Antonio. She graduated from Texas State University in Communication Design and has creatively pursued a variety of paths that have led her to Home Instead. 

Maria has a servant's heart and is passionate about helping to grow the connections in the community. She feels grateful to be a part of the Home Instead team in this season of life. Maria spends her free time volunteering at church, creating, organizing, baking or taking care of her family. 

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Brooke Collins, Service Manager/ Administrator

Brooke is the Administrator and Service Manager of Home Instead in Boerne; she moved here in 2000 from Missouri where she was born. Graduated from Boerne High School and did some college when she then learned that caring for others was her calling and decided to pursue that. She always enjoyed helping and being a companion to her cousin who had cerebral palsy and wanted to make that into a profession somehow. In 2018, she became a member at Home Instead as a Care Professional, was promoted to the On-Call Coordinator position, soon after moved into the Service Coordinator role, then Compliance Coordinator, Human Resources Manager. In 2021, Brooke became the General Manager but due to unforeseen circumstances with family in 2024, needed to step into the Service Manager position and will remain the Administrator. Brooke is married happily to her husband, Garrett, and brought a beautiful baby girl into the world in February of 2022.

In her free time she enjoys traveling, family time and the gym.

Erica Castilla, Recruitment Coordinator

Erica Castilla, Client Care Coordinator

Erica is our Client Care Coordinator. She is responsible coordinating care for each client Home Instead serves, ensuring each client has a customized care plan to meet their needs. Erica also markets for our office; you will often see her out and about bubbly personality. She joined our team in October of 2021 as a Compliance Coordinator, later moved into a scheduling role.

Erica was born in Decatur, IN and raised in Eagle Pass, Tx. She started her career working with children with disabilities. For six years, she focused her career as an Autism Paraprofessional and an in-home trainer all for a school district in Pflugerville, Tx. After having a change in career, decided to move back to Eagle Pass to work with Seniors as a Supervisor at APC Home Heath, where she also focused on the clients and their needs. She would do tasks like helping to assist a client with their medical documentation, meeting with Case Managers and Doctors for and with them.

In 2011, Erica moved to San Antonio, Tx where she met her husband, Rob. They have 5 children together. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, friends and spoiling her fur babies.

Lisa

Lisa Davenport, Training & Engagement Coordinator

Lisa began her career with Home Instead in July of 2016 as a Care Professional, after 15 years of professionally teaching PreK. Shortly after caregiving, Lisa moved into the office for three years as Scheduling Coordinator and Recruitment & Engagement Coordinator. She then decided that she missed the interaction with our clients and went back into the field to serve in 2019. In February of 2023, we missed her so much that we offered her a position back in our office.  She studied Fine and Performing Arts at Rowan University and graduated in 1984 with her bachelor's degree.  Lisa was born and raised in South Jersey but got to Texas as soon as she could.  She has lived in the Hill Country for over 30 years. Lisa has been married to her husband, Donald, for 28 years.  Two children and one new granddaughter.  Lisa is certified to teach Water Aerobics.  She loves her pets: one dog, one cat, and one African Grey Parrot.  
 
She also loves chickens, traveling, and riding her electric bike—especially around Port Aransas.  
Marie Evans

Marie Evans, Recruitment Coordinator

Marie Evans joined the Home Instead family in October of 2023 as the Office Coordinator and shortly after transitioned into our Recruitment Coordinator position. She was born and raised in Portland, OR, and moved to the Hill Country of Texas in 2013. She has a BA degree in Business Information Systems from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She held various jobs in the IT industry before deciding to stay home with her kids for 15 years. Marie has always had the heart to serve others and spends a lot of her after-hours time volunteering in many ways to give back to our community. She met her husband of 26 years, Brennan, while in college. She and her husband have 5 children together...Linus, Catalina, Elliot, Wendy, and Oliver. 

In her free time, she enjoys her children's marching band performances, the gym, her yellow Labrador Boots, and working on estate sales.

Nancy Height

Nancy Height, Lead Care Professional and On-Call Coordinator

Nancy, On Call Coordinator and Lead Care Professional, joined the Home Instead family in 2017 as a Caregiver. She joined the team because God placed a calling in her life to serve seniors and those who needed her most. She had excellent role models growing up as her mom and Grandmother took the role of caregiver as well. In 2020, she joined the office team as an On-Call coordinator and has always shown leadership in caregiving.

Nancy grew up in a small town in the Texas panhandle. At a young age, she knew that her calling in life was service to others. Consequently, this led to an extensive career in the food service industry involving many years of various roles including tableside service, staff and restaurant management, and even being the owner-operator of her own successful eating establishment.

Nancy has been blessed with two children, a son and a daughter, who themselves have subsequently led very successful lives. In addition, she has earned the title of “Grandmommy” given by her grandchildren of which she absolutely adores. In her leisure, she enjoys spending time with her family, which includes her dogs, and serving God.

Pastor Healther

Pastor Heather, Chaplain

Pastor Heather is available to help with the spiritual and/or emotional needs of our Care Professionals and Key Players through active listening and/or prayer. Pastor Heather is also available to help with bereavement support, encouragement and empathy in bad news and encouragement and celebration in good news.  

Our Team

Your Home Instead team in Boerne, TX possesses a heartfelt desire to work with seniors in the community. It is our ultimate goal to forge extraordinary relationships between our clients and their Care Professionals.

When you are ready for help, our caring staff is on call to quickly answer your questions and accommodate your senior services needs.

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