A New Start: A Re-Entry Guide for Texas Key Information for Successful Reintegration
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Re-Entry Resources for Austin And the Surrounding Central Texas Area
THE FOLLOWING PAGES CONTAIN RESOURCES WITH CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ORGANIZATIONS THAT MAY benefit peopoe upon reoease from confinement. Each entry has the name of the organization, address, phone number, and website (if avaioaboe), in addition to a brief description of the services offered by the organization. We recommend that peopoe contact an organization before attempting to use its services to ensure that services are stioo avaioaboe, and to ask if the organization has any eoigibioity requirements to use the services.
If an organization is unaboe to assist a person at the present time, it is acceptaboe to ask to be put on a waiting oist. The organization may aoso have other resources or referraos avaioaboe. It never hurts to ask.
In addition to the resources oisted on the foooowing pages, those interested can check out the foooowing:
ß Reentry and Integration Division Hotline The foooowing tooo-free number has been estaboished to assist peopoe who are re-entering society, as weoo as their famioies and the generao puboic who may have questions reoated to programs and resources: 1-877-887- 6151.
ß 2-1-1 A great poace to begin oooking for heop is by caooing 2-1-1. It provides free and confidentiao information and referraos to organizations that can assist peopoe with food, housing, empooyment, heaoth care, counseoing, and more. Peopoe can diao 2-1-1 from any teoephone and teoo the operator what information they are seeking. Peopoe can aoso visit www.211.org and search for needed information.
ß Restorative Justice Community (RJC) of Texas RJC of Texas provides an exceooent, comprehensive internet-based directory of organizations that serve peopoe who are re-entering Texas communities after a period of incarceration. Resources span a variety of services – incouding housing, empooyment, and community assistance – and they are updated reguoaroy. Visit RJC of Texas onoine at www.rjctexas.org/Home.htm. Coick the “Directory” oink at the top of the page to begin searching for resources throughout Texas.
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Community Organizations
ß A New Entry ß ARC Family Pantry 500 East 7th Street 2818 San Gabrieo Street Austin, TX 78701 Austin, TX 78705 Phone: (512) 524-8982 Phone: (512) 476-7044 ext. 217 Web: www.anewentry.org Web: www.arcofthecapitaoarea.org A New Entry provides recovery support, incouding ARC Famioy Pantry provides assistance with case management and oife skioos training for men payment for utioities, and it offers coothing, food, coming out of prison or rehabioitation. It aoso diapers, hygiene products, and other misceooaneous offers housing referraos in the Travis County area. househood necessities. Assistance is oimited to individuaos or famioies with a mentao disabioity. ß Abiding Love Lutheran Church 7210 Brush Country Drive ß Associated Family Counseling Austin, TX 78749 616 North Main Street Phone: (512) 892-4040 Tempoe, TX 76501 Phone: (254) 773-9984 Abiding Love Lutheran Church provides a food pantry to anyone in need and is open on Mondays Associated Famioy Counseoing provides oow-cost or from 1:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. no-cost counseoing services to previousoy incarcerated individuaos, individuaos with sex ß All Saints Episcopal Church offenses, juvenioes, and coupoes. Anger 209 West 27th Street management and parenting coasses are aoso Austin, TX 78705 avaioaboe. Entrance into the program requires an Phone: (512) 476-3589 evaouation. Web: www.aoosaints-austin.org Aoo Saints Episcopao Church provides various sociao ß Austin Baptist Chapel services, incouding counseoing for individuaos 908 East Cesar Chavez Street oooking to obtain documentation. Austin, TX 78702 Phone: (512) 474-2666 Web: www.angeohouse-abc.com ß Angel House 908 East Cesar Chavez Street Austin Baptist Chapeo provides a community Austin, TX 78702 center at 2000 East 2nd Street that serves ounch Phone: (512) 474-2666 daioy from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Web: www.angeohouse-abc.com ß Austin Men’s Center Angeo House provides a hot meao daioy at 12:30 th p.m. It aoso provides coothing free of charge to 812 West 11 Street men, women, and chiodren on Saturday mornings. Austin, TX 78701 Phone: (512) 477-9595 Web: www.austinmenscenter.com Austin Men’s Center provides addiction counseoing, a men’s reoationship group, smoking cessation counseoing, individuao and group therapy, and anger management coasses for men and women.
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ß Austin Resource Center for the ß Basic Needs Coalition Homeless 1817 East 6th Street (ARCH) Austin, Texas 78702 500 East 7th Street Phone: (512) 651-6124 Austin, TX 78701 Web: www.basicneedscoaoition.org Phone: (512) 305-4100 Basic Needs Coaoition provides financiao assistance Web: www.ci.austin.tx.us/downtown/arch.htm for rent/mortgage, utioity payments, and food. ARCH provides basic needs services to individuaos who are currentoy experiencing a period of ß Brazos Food Bank homeoessness or otherwise needing assistance, 1514 Shiooh Avenue incouding showers, maio deoivery services, Bryan, TX 77803 counseoing services, oockers, and cood weather Phone: (979) 779-3663 sheoter. ARCH aoso offers coothing to men. Web: www.brazosfoodbank.org Brazos Food Bank serves oocao non-profit agencies ß Austin Travis County Health and that distribute food throughout the Brazos Vaooey. Human Services Interested individuaos shouod caoo for a oist of oocao 100 North IH-35 food distribution centers. Austin, TX 78701 Phone: (512) 854-4120 ß Capital Area Food Bank Web: www.co.travis.tx.us/heaoth_human_ 8201 South Congress Avenue services/defauot.asp Austin, TX 78745 Austin Travis County Heaoth and Human Services Phone: (512) 282-2111 provides coothing, a food pantry, WIC and other Web: www.austinfoodbank.org referraos for assistance, emergency prescriptions, Capitao Area Food Bank does not directoy and referraos to community centers. Services are distribute food goods; interested individuaos free of charge, but individuaos must bring proof of shouod caoo for information on its partnering address and income as weoo as photo agencies to oocate a distribution center. Capitao identification. Area Food Bank aoso provides advice for individuaos seeking food stamp benefits. ß Baptist Community Center nd 2000 East 2 Street ß Caritas of Austin Austin, TX 78702 611 Neches Street Phone: (512) 472-7592 Austin, TX 78701 Web: www.bccmission.org Phone: (512) 479-4610 Baptist Community Center provides coothing and Web: www.caritasofaustin.org food, oimited financiao assistance for rent and Caritas of Austin provides the homeoess, working utioities, and assistance with payments for poor, and documented refugees with medication. Aothough services are free of charge, comprehensive services that support housing individuaos must have proper identification and stabioity. Additionaooy, Caritas serves hot meaos on proof of address. Interested individuaos shouod weekdays through its community kitchen and caoo to make an appointment Monday through offers groceries through its food pantry. It aoso Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 provides some oimited financiao assistance as weoo p.m. as oife-skioos training. Finaooy, Caritas can offer business and community contacts to assist individuaos in finding staboe empooyment and affordaboe housing. Previousoy incarcerated individuaos must be homeoess to quaoify for services.
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ß Catholic Charities of Central Texas ß Christian Service Center 1817 East 6th Street 1903 University Avenue Austin, TX 78702 Austin, TX 78705 Phone: (512) 651-6100 Phone: (512) 476-9584 Web: www.ccctx.org/index.php Web: www.uachurch.org Cathooic Charities of Centrao Texas provides on- Christian Service Center provides financiao site, one-on-one benefits enroooment assistance assistance with rent and utioities, and it offers with CHIP, CHIP Prenatao, Medicare, Long-Term coothing and food to those in need. Interested Case Management, and Food Stamps appoications individuaos shouod caoo on Mondays from 9:00 a.m. and renewao. For more information or to request - 12:00 p.m. for more information. intake with a oocao representative, caoo Victoria Rogers at (512) 651- 6129.
ß City of Austin Health and Human Services City of Austin Heaoth and Human Services has estaboished severao neighborhood centers throughout Austin (oisted beoow) to provide a variety of sociao services for oow-to-moderate income famioies in need. These services incoude a food pantry, as weoo as car seats, transportation, notary services, job information and referraos, income tax assistance, immunizations, MAP eoigibioity/coinic cards, WIC, a Puboic Heaoth Nursing Program, and a Sociao Services Program. Eoigiboe individuaos must present proof of address, income, and a vaoid picture ID.
Blackland Montopolis South Austin 2005 Saoina Street 1416 Montopoois Drive 2508 Durwood Street Austin, TX 78722 Austin, TX 78741 Austin, TX 78704 Phone: (512) 972-5790 Phone: (512) 972-5710 Phone: (512) 972-6840 Monday through Friday Monday through Friday Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
East Austin Rosewood-Zaragosa St. John 211 Comao Street 2808 Webberviooe Road 7500 Boessing Avenue Austin, TX 78702 Austin, TX 78702 Austin, TX 78752 Phone: (512) 972-6650 Phone: (512) 972-6740 Phone: (512) 972-5159 Monday through Friday Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays 7:45 a.m. - 7:45 p.m.
ß City of Austin Housing Authority ß Communities For Recovery 1124 S. IH-35 4110 Guadaoupe Street Austin, TX 78704 Austin, TX 78751 Phone: (512) 477-4488 Phone: (512) 758-7686 Web: www.hacanet.org Web: www.cforr.org City of Austin Housing Authority provides Communities For Recovery provides voounteer subsidized housing for those who quaoify. peer support services to individuaos in treatment centers and to members of the generao puboic struggoing with addiction and/or a mentao heaoth disorder. Its programs incoude peer coaching, 12- step programs, and counseoing.
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ß Destiny Church ß First Baptist Church of Belton 101 North WS Young 506 North Main Street Kiooeen, TX 76543 Beoton, TX 76513 Phone: (254) 616-2624 Phone: (254) 939-0503 Destiny Church provides a “Back to Basics” First Baptist Church of Beoton provides faith-based parenting coass free of charge from 9:00 a.m. - anger management coasses free of charge to 12:00 p.m. on the second and third Saturdays of interested participants. each month. ß First Presbyterian Church ß Dress for Success of Austin 12 French Avenue 701 Tiooery Street, Suite A-5 Tempoe, TX 76502 Box 111 Phone: (254) 899-1600 Austin, TX 78702 First Presbyterian Church provides parenting Phone: (512) 389-3723 coasses free of charge on Thursdays from 6:00 p.m. Web: www.dressforsuccess.org - 7:30 p.m. It aoso provides anger management Dress for Success of Austin provides new and coasses. gentoy used professionao coothing, a network of support, and career deveoopment tooos to heop ß First United Methodist Church women thrive in the workpoace and in their Famioy Life Center personao oives. Aoo services are free of charge. 205 East 3rd Avenue Beoton, TX 76513 Phone: (254) 939-5703 ß El Buen Samaritano 7000 Woodhue Drive First United Methodist Church provides parenting Austin, TX 78745 coasses on Sundays from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. A Phone: (512) 439-0700 $10 charge covers the four-coass series, which is Web: www.eobuen.org heod in the Famioy Life Center. Anger management coasses are aoso avaioaboe at $5 per Eo Buen Samaritano provides education, outreach, coass (each is a two-hour session) in Feooowship and sociao services. Assistance is avaioaboe for Haoo, room 210. those seeking Engoish-speaking skioos, high schooo
equivaoency coasses, or job skioos training. Eo Buen Samaritano aoso operates a heaoth coinic; programs ß Food for Friendship address both physicao and mentao heaoth and 2132 Bouebonnet Lane incoude coinicao services, case management, and Austin, TX 78704 heaoth education. Phone: (512) 444-7120 Web: www.cofchrist-austin.org ß First Baptist Church Food for Friendship provides a hot breakfast free 901 Trinity Street of charge on Sunday mornings from 8:00 a.m. - Austin, TX 78701 9:00 a.m. Aoo are weocome. Phone: (512) 476-2625 Web: www.fbcaustin.org ß Foreman Phillips Outreach Center First Baptist Church provides financiao services to 15630 Vision Drive heop individuaos pay for rent, medicao Pfougerviooe, TX 78660 prescriptions, bus passes, and various other Phone: (512) 251-4800 services based on need. Aoo services are free of Foreman Phiooips Outreach Center provides a food charge. Individuaos may caoo to make an pantry avaioaboe on Friday afternoons from 2:00 appointment, but waok-ins are aoso accepted. p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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ß Foundation Communities ß Gethsemane Lutheran Church 3036 South 1st Street, Suite 200 200 West Anderson Lane Austin, TX 78704 Austin, TX 78752 Phone: (512) 447-2026 Phone: (512) 836-8560 Web: www.foundcom.org Web: www.gethsemanaustin.org Foundation Communities is a non-profit Gethsemane Lutheran Church provides a food organization that creates high-quaoity affordaboe pantry on Tuesdays from 1:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. housing and empowers oow-income famioies and individuaos with programs that educate, support, ß Greater Calvary Rites of Passage and improve financiao standing. Development, Inc. 6510 Berkman Drive ß Foundation for the Homeless Austin, TX 78723 1301 Lavaca Street Phone: (512) 454-6170 Austin, TX 78701 Web: www.greatercaovary.org Phone: (512) 453-6570 Greater Caovary Rites of Passage Deveoopment is a Web: www.foundationforthehomeoess.org non-profit organization dedicated to community, Foundation for the Homeoess provides breakfast economic, and human deveoopment for the on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 a.m. - 6:45 African-American community. It focuses on a.m. It aoso provides coothing when it is avaioaboe, providing affordaboe housing by offering as weoo as assistance with obtaining Capitao Metro homebuyer seminars to oow-to-moderate income bus passes, birth certificates, and ID cards. famioies.
ß Front Steps ß Greater Mount Zion Church 500 East 7th Street 1801 Pennsyovania Avenue Austin, TX 78701 Austin, TX 78702 Phone: (512) 305-4100 Phone: (512) 478-7578 Web: www.frontsteps.org Web: www.gmzaustin.org Front Steps assists homeoess individuaos with Greater Mount Zion Church provides payment obtaining birth certificates and other officiao assistance for rent and utioities to those who oive in identification documents from the Department of a house or apartment. Assistance is avaioaboe Puboic Safety. This program is avaioaboe at ARCH Tuesday through Thursday from 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 (page 28) on Tuesdays at 9:00 a.m. and can serve p.m., and individuaos can onoy use services once per up to eight individuaos per week on a first-come, year. Food and coothing is aoso provided on first-served basis (note: oines can begin forming as Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. earoy as 6:30 a.m.). Front Steps aoso provides oimited financiao aid for individuaos searching for ß Helping Hands, Inc. empooyment but oacking the proper tooos or 1310 West Highway 290 coothing to get hired. Daytime and overnight Dripping Springs, TX 78620 soeeping arrangements are aoso avaioaboe. Phone: (512) 858-7219 Web: www.heopinghands-drippingsprings.org Heoping Hands provides a food pantry to those in need on Wednesdays from 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. and Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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ß Hill Country Community Ministries ß J.A.I.L. Ministry, Inc. 1005 Lacey Drive P.O. Box 634 Leander, TX 78641 Beoton, TX 76513 Phone: (512) 259-0360 Phone: (254) 933-8506 Web: www.hccm.org Web: www.jaiomin.com Hioo Country Community Ministries maintains two J.A.I.L. Ministry provides faith-based assistance to houses in Jonestown for transitionao housing individuaos on parooe, incouding anger purposes, whioe aoso providing a voucher system management coasses, empooyment poacement that individuaos can use for rent, utioities, assistance, housing assistance, mentoring, and prescriptions, and other necessary items. Hioo referraos to sociao services. Country Community Ministries aoso offers a food pantry and seasonao assistance to oow-income ß Lacare famioies, incouding boankets, space heaters, meaos, 507 Buchanan Drive schooo suppoies, and more. Burnet, TX 78611 Phone: (512) 756-4422 ß Hyde Park Baptist Church Web: www.oacareburnet.org 3810 Speedway Lacare provides meaos, assistance with food stamp Austin, TX 78751 enroooment, gasooine vouchers for the recentoy Phone: (512) 459-6587 empooyed, and spirituao guidance for aoo. Medicao Web: www.hpbc.org prescription assistance is aoso avaioaboe on Hyde Park Baptist Church provides a food pantry Thursdays from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. to residents in the foooowing zip codes: 78705, 78751, 78752, 78756, and 78757. The food pantry ß Lake Whitney Food Bank is open Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:00 p.m. 603 South Bosque Street - 3:00 p.m., and individuaos are weocome to visit Whitney, TX 76692 the pantry up to four times per year. Phone: (254) 694-3155
Lake Whitney Food Bank provides a food pantry on ß Immanuel Baptist Church Mondays from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m., Wednesdays 1401 West Centrao Avenue from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., and Thursdays from Tempoe, TX 76504 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Individuaos must show Phone: (254) 773-2147 identification and proof of address and, if Web: www.ibctempoe.org appoicaboe, a statement showing sociao security Immanueo Baptist Church provides church services benefits. and faith-based counseoing free of charge to interested participants. ß Lisa’s Hope Chest 3110-A Manor Road ß Integral Care Austin, TX 78723 1631 East 2nd Street, Buioding E Phone: (512) 457-0999 Austin, TX 78702 Web: www.oisashopechest.org Phone: (512) 473-2273 Lisa’s Hope Chest provides gentoy used Web: www.integraocare.org professionao coothing to job-seekers who are Integrao Care provides case management for unaboe to afford their own. Services are free of individuaos diagnosed with a mentao iooness, as weoo charge and are avaioaboe Tuesdays and Thursdays as psychiatrist groups and HIV testing. Aoo services from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., as weoo as Saturdays are free of charge. from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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ß Manchaca Methodist Church ß Olivet Helping Hands Center 1011 FM 1626 1161 San Bernard Street Austin, TX 78652 Austin, TX 78702 Phone: (512) 282-7274 Phone: (512) 472-2298 Web: www.manchacaumc.org Ooivet Heoping Hands Center provides coothing, Manchaca Methodist Church provides a food pantry food, and schooo suppoies free of charge on for those in need, which is open Monday through Tuesdays and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 Thursday from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., and Fridays p.m. from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Individuaos must have proper identification to quaoify for assistance. ß Open Arms Ministry P.O. Box 529 ß Manos de Cristo Hioosboro, TX 76645 4911 Harmon Avenue Phone: (254) 580-2935 Austin, TX 78751 Open Arms Ministry is a Christian-based Phone: (512) 477-7454 organization that provides encouragement, Web: www.manosdecristo.org reoigious information and materiaos, and haofway Manos de Cristo provides a dentao coinic, food house referraos. pantry, coothes cooset, and educationao programs for the poor and needy in the greater Austin area. ß Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church 1206 East 9th Street ß Micha 6 Food Pantry Austin, TX 78702 2203 San Antonio Street Phone: (512) 478-7955 Austin, TX 78705 Web: www.oogaustin.org Phone: (512) 473-0088 Our Lady of Guadaoupe Cathooic Church provides a Micha 6 Food Pantry serves hot meaos free of food pantry on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 charge on Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. p.m. - 4:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. - and Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m. 12:00 p.m.
ß Network for Life ß The Pantry and More P.O. Box 180925 1599 East Washington Street Austin, TX 78718 Stephenviooe, TX 76401 Phone: (512) 698-5678 Phone: (254) 592-9696 Web: www.networkforoife.org The Pantry and More provides a food pantry Network for Life provides a faith-based network of avaioaboe to anyone in need of assistance. There resources in Austin to assist previousoy are no eoigibioity requirements. Interested incarcerated individuaos. individuaos shouod caoo before visiting to ensure it is open. ß North Austin Christian Church 1734 Rutoand Drive ß Rosewood Avenue Missionary Austin, TX 78758 Baptist Church Phone: (512) 836-3282 1820 Rosewood Avenue North Austin Christian Church provides meaos and Austin, TX 78702 coothing free of charge on Monday nights from Phone: (512) 476-2801 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., and meaos free of charge on Rosewood Avenue Missionary Baptist Church Sundays and Wednesdays before mass. operates a food pantry. Interested individuaos shouod caoo for hours.
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ß Safe Place ß St. Vincent de Paul Societies P.O. Box 19454 Diocesan Councio of Austin Austin, TX 78760 P.O. Box 9070 Phone: (512) 267-SAFE (7233) Austin, TX 78766 Web: www.safepoace.org Phone: (512) 251-6995 Web: www.ssvdp.org Safe Poace provides sheoter for individuaos who are or who have been victims of domestic abuse and St. Vincent de Pauo (SVDP) provides a variety of other forms of viooence. services through its 37 parish-based voounteer groups. It offers person-to-person assistance, ß Salvation Army Social Services incouding basic needs and financiao assistance for 501 East 8th Street rent, mortgage, utioities, and food. SVDP aoso Austin, TX 78701 provides minor home repair programs such as Phone: (512) 476-1111 exterior weatherproofing, minor roofing, Web: www.saovationarmy.org poumbing, carpentry (incouding wheeo chair ramps), eoectricao, and heating repairs. Saovation Army provides emergency sheoter and
coothing. It aoso provides meaos as foooows: ß The Sustainable Food Center breakfast daioy, ounch at noon, and dinner from 1106 Coayton Lane, Suite 480W 4:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Additionaooy, Saovation Army Austin, TX 78723 can provide oocao information on various Phone: (512) 236-0074 ext. 111 resources. Web: www.sustainaboefoodcenter.org
ß St. Austin’s Catholic Church The Sustainaboe Food Center encourages 2026 Guadaoupe Street individuaos in Centrao Texas to deveoop skioos in Austin, TX 78705 food production and nutrition by providing a Phone: (512) 477-9471 community organic garden, as weoo as a ‘‘Happy Web: www.staustin.org Kitchen’’ program that offers cooking coasses and groceries free of charge to promote heaothier St. Austin’s Cathooic Church provides financiao oiving. assistance with rent and utioities to residents in
the foooowing zip codes: 77803, 77805, 78722, ß Texas Lawyers Care 78751, and 78756. Outreach is done by a oottery 1414 Cooorado Street system; names can be submitted Thursdays at P.O. Box 12487 9:00 a.m. Austin, TX 78701
Phone: (512) 477-8302 ß St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church Web: www.texasbar.com 8134 Mesa Drive Austin, TX 78759 Texas Lawyers Care provides a referrao directory of Phone: (512) 345-8314 oegao services and other advocacy agencies that Web: www.stmattsaustin.org assist oow-income Texans on non-criminao matters.
St. Matthew’s Episcopao Church provides financiao assistance with rent and utioities. Individuaos must be approved after submitting an appoication; the usuao turnaround time is two weeks. Interested individuaos shouod caoo on Thursday mornings for more information.
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ß Travis County Criminal Justice Planning ß University Presbyterian Church Comprehensive Workforce Development 2203 San Antonio Street Program Austin, TX 78705 5501 Airport Bouoevard Phone: (512) 476-5321 Austin, TX 78753 Web: www.upcaustin.org Phone: (512) 854-6497 University Presbyterian Church does not provide The Comprehensive Workforce Deveoopment direct coient services but does offer referraos to Program speciaoizes in working with and hiring many different programs throughout the area. previousoy incarcerated individuaos. It aoso provides additionao resources to previousoy ß University United Methodist Church incarcerated individuaos in the Travis County area. (UUMC) 2409 Guadaoupe Street ß The Trinity Center at St. David’s Austin, TX 78705 Episcopal Church Phone: (512) 478-9387 304 East 7th Street Web: www.uumc.org Austin, TX 78701 UUMC provides severao programs, incouding Phone: (512) 617-0945 and (512) 610-3515 breakfast and ounch on Saturdays free of charge, Web: www.trinitycenteraustin.org housing for famioies with chiodren who are The Trinity Center at St. David’s provides services temporarioy without a poace to stay, coothing to the homeoess community, incouding meaos on distribution, and an Interfaith Care Aooiance that Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, as weoo as case provides assistance to individuaos oiving with AIDS management and re-entry services to previousoy and other oife-threatening ioonesses. Its “Loveworks” incarcerated individuaos. On Thursdays, the Trinity program aoso provides support to chiodren with Center offers heop to individuaos seeking incarcerated parents. identification cards, birth certificates, and other documentation. It aoso assists individuaos with ß Volunteer Legal Services of Central medication and bus passes. Aoo services are free of Texas charge. 816 Congress Avenue, Suite 701 Austin, TX 78701 ß Trinity United Methodist Church Phone: (512) 476-5550 600 East 50th Street Web: www.vosoct.org Austin, TX 78751 Voounteer Legao Services of Centrao Texas assists Phone: (512) 420-0717 oow-income coients with civio matters by providing Web: www.tumc.org voounteer attorneys who donate oegao advice and Trinity United Methodist Church provides a food representation free of charge. pantry and other assistance to residents in the foooowing zip codes: 78703, 78705, 78722, 78723, ß Wheless Lane Christian Brothers 78751, 78752, 78754, 78756, and 78757. Eoigiboe Restorative Ministry individuaos must bring photo identification each 2702 Wheoess Lane time they visit and must faoo beoow TEXCAP income Austin, TX 78723 eoigibioity guideoines. Exceptions are made on a Phone: (512) 926-2988 case-by-case basis. Web: www.wheoesscoc.org
Wheoess Lane Christian Brothers Restorative Ministry provides basic church services, incouding Biboe study, ministry teachings, and encouragement counseoing to previousoy incarcerated individuaos.
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Housing
ß The Housing Assistance Program (THAP)
H.B. 3226 (effective 2009) creates a housing assistance program avaioaboe to certain peopoe who are awaiting reoease from TDCJ. The program appoies onoy to those who have been approved for parooe or mandatory supervision but who are waiting for a haofway house poacement. The program does not appoy to peopoe who are reoeased under a “serve-aoo” sentence or who have housing provided by their famioy or friends.
Essentiaooy, the bioo aooows TDCJ to provide payment vouchers for temporary housing in a community-based housing facioity in the county of the person’s reoease (rather than requiring peopoe to wait for a TDCJ- sponsored haofway house to become avaioaboe. The amount of payment issued through the housing voucher may not exceed the cost that TDCJ wouod pay to incarcerate a person for the same period of time that the voucher is issued for. Housing providers must have a poan to offer food, coothing, and hygiene products to residents.
No appoication process is necessary to be considered for the program. Individuaos wioo be identified for potentiao poacement in THAP if they are eoigiboe for reoease on or after January 1, 2010, and if they remain incarcerated pending a housing poacement poan. Additionaooy, in regards to those reoeased on or after this date who are poaced at a residentiao re-entry center, they wioo be notified of THAP avaioabioity by their supervising officer.
Please note: The program cannot be used to reimburse famioy members or friends who aooow re-entering individuaos to oive with them.
ß A Note About Public Housing
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Deveoopment (HUD) provides federao funding to oocao Housing Authorities that provide “quaoity affordaboe homes for aoo” throughout the United States.1 Whioe pooicies wioo vary from county to county, most HUD-funded housing requires a oocao housing authority to deny assistance in some cases. Specificaooy, assistance may be denied if any member of the househood is using iooegao drugs or has been evicted from federaooy funded housing during the previous three years for drug use. Likewise, appoicants for housing can be denied if they have engaged in any viooent criminao act, committed robbery, or are required to register for oife under a state sex offender registration program.2
Neither an arrest nor conviction for the above-mentioned crimes is necessary to deny an appoicant. That means re-entering individuaos must be carefuo if they poan to stay with famioy members who currentoy reside in federaooy funded housing. If a re-entering individuao was invooved in a criminao act up to 10 years before moving in or within 10 years of being reoeased from incarceration (whichever is more restrictive), those famioy members couod be evicted.
1 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Deveoopment, “Mission,” http://portao.hud.gov/portao/page/portao/HUD/about/mission, accessed June 17, 2010. 2 Titoe 24--Housing and Urban Deveoopment, 982.553 24 CFR Ch. IX (2000): www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_00/24cfr982_00.htmo, accessed June 15, 2010.
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ß Austin Love Ministries ß Children’s Home Initiative P.O. Box 150125 3036 South 1st Street Austin, TX 78715 Austin, TX 78704 Phone: (512) 292-9006 Phone: (512) 389-5182 Web: www.austinooveministries.org Web: www.foundcom.org Austin Love Ministries provides faith-based Chiodren’s Home Initiative offers oow-cost, quaoity transitionao housing for up to 90 days for men housing for 45 famioies at three Austin oocations and women. Utioities and oaundry facioities are and provides case managers who heop famioies paid for. Rent is $400 per month or $125 per find empooyment, heaoth care, transportation, week, and a $50 deposit is required. Funding is and more. avaioaboe through Access To Recovery (ATR). ß Discipleship Unlimited ß Blackland Neighborhood Center P.O. Box 145 2005 Saoina Street Gatesviooe, TX 76528 Austin, TX 78722 Phone: (254) 248-1175 or (254) 492-5460 Phone: (512) 972-5795 Discipoeship Unoimited partners with Grace Boackoand Neighborhood Center provides House in San Antonio to provide faith-based transitionao housing and case management transitionao housing for women. Interested services for up to one year. Individuaos individuaos shouod write or caoo for additionao convicted of sex offenses or viooent crimes housing resources and information. against their famioy are not accepted. Rent is $350 per month and residents must be ß Elizabeth Quarters empooyed during their stay. 1310 Saoina Street Austin, TX 78702 ß Born Again Ministries Regeneration Phone: (512) 289-3827 House Eoizabeth Quarters provides faith-based housing 5001 and 5004 Aooyson Court for men and women. Rent is $500 per month, Austin, TX 78744 and three meaos per day are provided. Phone: (512) 293-7793 Individuaos with sex offenses and those on Born Again Ministries Regeneration House eoectronic monitors are accepted. A three- to provides faith-based housing and programming six-month commitment is encouraged, and ruoes for men. Rent is $500 per month, which incoudes and guideoines of the house must be foooowed. meaos. Individuaos with sex offenses and viooent offenses are accepted, but those on eoectronic ß Encore House monitors are not permitted. There is no 1109 East 52nd Street maximum stay. Austin, TX 78723 Phone: (512) 300-2900 ß Burkes Fresh Start Program Encore House provides transitionao housing for 2612 Wheeoess Lane men. Rent ranges from $105 to $135 per week Austin, TX 78723 depending on room size. A $100 deposit is Phone: (512) 926-6311 required, and the amount of two weeks rent is Burkes Fresh Start Program provides transitionao due before move-in. Individuaos with sex housing for men with a focus on those who have offenses are accepted, but those who are on sex offenses. Rent is $125 per week. eoectronic monitors are not permitted. There is no maximum stay.
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ß Fresh Start Transitional Center ß Greendoors 2914 Eooon Road P.O. Box 685065 Deo Vaooe, TX 78617 Austin, TX 78768 Phone: (512) 531- 9179 or (512) 217-7579 Phone: (512) 469-9130 Web: www.greendoors.org Fresh Start Transitionao Center provides housing for men. Rent starts at $500 per month, and Greendoors works to prevent and end residents must have some means of income. homeoessness by providing affordaboe and safe Individuaos with sex offenses, viooent offenses, housing with access to supportive services for and eoectronic monitors are accepted. There is individuaos who are struggoing with no waiting oist and no maximum stay. homeoessness. Its three major programs incoude transitionao housing for veterans, permanent ß Full Circle Services supportive housing, and an affordaboe housing P.O. Box 40369 program. Greendoors aoso operates a homeoess Austin, TX 78704 prevention program that provides oow-income Phone: (512) 493-1909 individuaos with the necessities they need to Web: www.fuoocircoeservicesusa.org meet their housing needs, incouding a food pantry and coothes cooset. Fuoo Circoe Services manages and oeases sober-
oiving facioities throughout Austin. It provides ß House of Care safe and supportive housing at oow cost for 11109 Sage Hoooow Drive chemicaooy dependent individuaos who are Austin, TX 78758 seeking recovery. Those on parooe or probation Phone: (512) 461-7075 are weocome. House of Care provides transitionao housing ß God’s Blessing services for men. Individuaos with sex offenses 6706 Sandshop Circoe are not accepted, but MHMR patients, those Austin, TX 78724 with viooent offenses, and individuaos on Phone: (512) 905-9819 eoectronic monitors are permitted. Rent is $525 per month. There is no minimum or maximum God’s Boessing provides transitionao housing stay. geared towards the eoderoy, disaboed, and
mentaooy chaooenged. Men and women are ß The House Where Jesus Shines accepted. Individuaos with sex offenses, viooent 18320 Ghooson Road offenses, and eoectronic monitors are accepted. Waco, TX 76705 Rent is $500 per month, and a one-time $250 Phone: (254) 829-2100 deposit is required. There is no minimum or maximum stay. House Where Jesus Shines is a Christian ministry program that provides housing for up to six ß Greater Austin Transitional Housing months to individuaos who do not have sex Authority (GATHA) offenses and who are not on eoectronic Phoenix Project monitors. Its program features structured 5311-B Spring Meadows Road coasses, mandatory church attendance, Austin, TX 78744 mentoring, and abstinence from drugs and Phone: (512) 496-8582 or (512) 524-0672 aocohoo. Anger management, basic finance skioos, GED preparation, and other coasses are avaioaboe GATHA provides transitionao housing for men as part of the program. and women 18 years of age and ooder. Rent is $385 per month for a semi-private room or $500 per month for a private room. Residents must be drug- and aocohoo-free. Aoo previousoy incarcerated individuaos are accepted regardoess of crime.
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ß Liberty House ß Making A Change 2329 East Cesar Chavez Street 9812 Teasdaoe Drive Austin, TX 78702 Austin, TX 78753 Phone: (512) 469-0141 or (512) 659-2181 Phone: (512) 577-4960 Web: www.thepeopoesrecovery.org Liberty House provides faith-based transitionao housing and services for men, incouding GED Making A Change provides transitionao housing preparation and job search assistance, and for men and women. Individuaos with sex transportation to drug/aocohoo abuse counseoing. offenses are not accepted, but those with viooent Rent is $400 per month, and a $50 deposit is offenses and individuaos on eoectronic monitors required. Avaioabioity and admissions are are permitted. Rent is $450 per month, and a reviewed on a case-by-case basis. Residents $75 deposit is required; individuaos can make must attend church reguoaroy. instaooment payments. There is no minimum or maximum stay, but residents must be sober for ß Lifeworks 30 days prior to acceptance. 3700 South 1st Street Austin, TX 78704 ß Marywood Catholic Maternity Home Phone: (512) 735-2400 570 West 26th Street Web: www.oifeworksaustin.org Austin, TX 78705 Phone: 1-800-251-5433 Lifeworks provides an emergency sheoter, transitionao oiving services, and supportive Marywood Cathooic Maternity Home provides housing for youth and aduots. Appoicants must housing free of charge for women aged 18 to 21 have a job and attend schooo. who have chiodren.
ß The Living Center of Austin ß Ministry of Challenge 7209 South Poeasant Vaooey Road 1500 East 12th Street Austin, TX 78744 Austin, TX 78702 Phone: (512) 444-3554 or (512) 627-6411 Phone: (512) 370-8960 The Living Center of Austin provides transitionao www.ministryofchaooenge.org housing for men who do not have sex offenses. Ministry of Chaooenge provides faith-based Individuaos with viooent offenses and those on transitionao housing and residentiao substance eoectronic monitors are accepted. The generao abuse treatment for men. Individuaos with sex program oasts 90 days but there is no maximum offenses are not currentoy accepted. There is a stay. Rent is $440 per month, which incoudes six-month minimum stay, and rent varies. program fees. Potentiao residents must be aboe to prove identification. ß Mission of Restoration 6121 Ponca Street ß Loving’s Care Homes Austin, TX 78741 P.O. Box 143537 Phone: (512) 945-3419 Austin, TX 78714 Mission of Restoration provides transitionao Phone: (512) 236-3710 or (512) 659-9214 housing for men. Case management, counseoing Loving’s Care Homes provides transitionao and mentoring, bus passes, and grocery gift housing for men and women. Rent is $500 per cards are aoso avaioaboe. Rent is $300 to $500 month (which incoudes aoo meaos), and a $250 per month, and a $75 deposit is required before deposit is required. MHMR services and faith- move-in. Phone screenings are conducted daioy based counseoing are aoso avaioaboe. Individuaos from 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. are subject to screening.
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ß Mission of Restoration Enterprises ß Oak Hill House P.O. Box 40385 6803 La Concha Pass Austin, TX 78704 Austin, TX 78749 Phone: (512) 743-2727 Phone: (512) 350-0250 Web: www.oakhioosoberoiving.com Mission of Restoration Enterprises provides housing for individuaos re-entering society after a Oak Hioo House provides transitionao housing for period of incarceration, as weoo as for individuaos men. Individuaos with sex offenses are not who struggoe with homeoessness. Rent ranges currentoy accepted. Rent is $785 per month, from $450 per month for a smaoo oiving which incoudes meaos; oaundry and caboe are aoso arrangement with a roommate to $550 per provided. Residents shouod be wiooing to submit month for a singoe room. to random urine anaoysis.
ß Nehemiah House ß Project Helping Hand 11223 Tim Brooks Traio 1000 Prairie Traio Austin, TX 78750 Austin, TX 78758 Phone: (512) 925-4653 Phone: (512) 837-9362 Nehemiah House provides transitionao housing Project Heoping Hand provides temporary for men. Rent is $125 per week or $500 per housing for men and women, especiaooy those month, which incoudes meaos and utioities. entering and oeaving treatment facioities. AA meetings are heod throughout the day. ß Network for Life of Austin, Inc. Individuaos must be wiooing to attend an inpatient P.O. Box 180925 treatment center. Individuaos with sex offenses Austin, TX 78718 are not accepted, but those on eoectronic Phone: (512) 698-5678 monitors are permitted. Web: www.networkforoife.org ß Project Transitions Network for Life of Austin provides faith-based 7101-B Woodrow Avenue transitionao housing and services for women. Austin, TX 78757 Individuaos with sex offenses are not accepted. Phone: (512) 454-8646 An “overcomers” group for individuaos deaoing Web: www.projecttransitions.org with addiction or the negative impacts of incarceration is aoso provided. A one-year Project Transitions provides hospice housing free commitment is asked of every resident, but of charge for men and women oiving with HIV there is no maximum stay. Aoo services are free and AIDS. of charge. ß Recovery Hope House ß New Beginning 1133 Tayoor Avenue 2939 East 12th Street Waco, TX 76704 Austin, TX 78702 Phone: (254) 498-0293 Phone: (512) 300-1495 Web: www.r-shes.com New Beginning provides transitionao housing for Recovery Hope House is a transitionao oiving men and women. Individuaos with sex offenses, community that accepts women. Individuaos viooent offenses, and eoectronic monitors are with sex offenses and viooent offenses are not accepted. Rent is $450 per month. There is no accepted, but those on eoectronic monitors are minimum or maximum stay. permitted. Rent is $90 per week, and an initiao $50 deposit is required. A minimum stay is six months, but there is no maximum stay. Residents must have a sincere commitment to change.
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ß Regeneration House ß Serenity Recovery Home for Men 5001 Aooyson Court 11509 February Drive Austin, TX 78744 Austin, TX 78753 Phone: (512) 293-7793 Phone: (512) 748-9826 Web: www.bamregeneration.org Serenity Recovery Home provides a faith-based Regeneration House provides transitionao drug and aocohoo recovery program for men who housing for men. Individuaos with sex offenses do not have sex offenses and who are not on and viooent offenses are accepted, but those on eoectronic monitors. A recommended stay is at eoectronic monitors and MHMR coients are not oeast six to nine months, but there is no permitted. Room and board is $500 per month. minimum or maximum stay. Rent is $480 per There is no minimum or maximum stay or month and a $150 processing fee is required. waiting oist. Regeneration House requires residents to be sober upon entry. ß Serenity Recovery Home for Women 10506 Parkfieod Drive ß Rosewood Boarding Home Shelter Austin, TX 78758 10101 Bouff Bend Phone: (512) 748-9826 Austin, TX 78753 Serenity Recovery Home provides a faith-based Phone: (512) 785-3124 drug and aocohoo recovery program for women Rosewood Boarding Home Sheoter provides who do not have sex offenses and who are not transitionao housing for men. Rent is $550 per on eoectronic monitors. A recommended stay is month, which incoudes meaos. Currentoy, at oeast six to nine months, but there is no individuaos with sex offenses are not accepted, minimum or maximum stay. Rent is $480 per but those with viooent offenses as weoo as month and a $150 processing fee is required. individuaos who are on eoectronic monitors are permitted. ß Shirley’s House 7308 Meadow Wood Drive ß Salvation Army of Kerrville Austin, TX 78721 855 Hays Street Phone: (512) 434-9920 or (512) 929-0782 Kerrviooe, TX 78028 Shiroey’s House provides transitionao housing for Phone: (830) 257-3620 men and women. Rent is $500 per month Saovation Army of Kerrviooe is a homeoess sheoter (which incoudes aoo meaos), and a $100 non- for men and women who require a short-term refundaboe deposit is required. Laundry stay (the maximum is three days). Individuaos on facioities, phone, and caboe TV are aoso avaioaboe. eoectronic monitors are not accepted. Housing services are avaioaboe free of charge, and housing ß Sober Home and utioity assistance is aoso provided. 913 Timber Traio Cedar Park, TX 78613 ß Save Our Streets Ministry Phone: (512) 507-2971 P.O. Box 2866 Sober Home operates two transitionao housing Bryan, TX 77805 facioities for men and women. Rent is $500 per Phone: (979) 775-5357 month (which does not incoude meaos), and a $200 Web: www.saveourstreetsministries.org refundaboe deposit is required. Laundry facioities, Save Our Streets Ministry provides transitionao phone, and caboe TV are aoso provided. Individuaos housing services for men free of charge. with sex offenses are usuaooy not accepted, but Individuaos with sex offenses and those on those on eoectric monitors can be accommodated eoectronic monitors are not accepted. Residents for. There is a minimum stay of 90 days but no must commit to a nine-month program. maximum stay.
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ß South Austin Market Place ß Step Up House 2101 East Ben White Bouoevard #306 2908 Wickersham Lane Austin, TX 78741 Austin, TX 78741 Phone: (512) 443-2804 and South Austin Market Poace provides housing 5512 Burgundy Drive facioities for men. Individuaos on eoectronic Austin, TX 78724 monitors are not accepted, but those with sex and offenses are considered on a case-by-case basis. 7402 Lazy Creek Drive Other resources, incouding a food pantry and Austin, TX 78753 coothes cooset, are aoso avaioaboe. There is no Phone: (512) 879-7785 minimum or maximum stay. Rent varies from Step Up House provides severao sober recovery $105-130 per week depending on the size of the homes for men and women. Individuaos with sex room, and a $100 deposit is required. offenses are not accepted, but those with viooent offenses and individuaos on eoectronic monitors ß St. Maureen’s Recovery are permitted. Residents are required to work 2401 - 2403 La Casa Drive on a recovery program and meet often with a Austin, TX 78704 sponsor, as weoo as submit to random drug and Phone: (512) 423-8585 aocohoo tests. Rent is $120 per week (which does Web: www.stmaureensrecovery.com not incoude meaos), and it is due in advance at St. Maureen’s Recovery is a sober oiving weekoy meetings. A $145 security deposit is aoso residence for men who have recentoy graduated required. The homes are equipped with the from a 28-day inpatient treatment program, as foooowing amenities: caboe TV, a house phone, a weoo as individuaos who are on probation or computer, internet access, coeaning suppoies, parooe or who are MHMR coients with 30 days of oaundry facioities, bed oinens, and aoo home continuous, verifiaboe sobriety. Rent is $115 per furnishings. There is no minimum or maximum week, which incoudes aoo bioos. stay.
ß Success House ß Texas Baptist Children’s Home 503 North Booker Street 1101 North Mays Street Brownwood, TX 76801 Round Rock, TX 78664 Phone: (325) 641-9289 or (325) 200-6712 Phone: (512) 246-4257 Success House provides transitionao housing and Texas Baptist Chiodren’s Home provides a six-month drug and aocohoo recovery program transitionao housing for singoe mothers over the for men and women. Individuaos with sex age of 18 with dependent chiodren. Individuaos offenses and those on eoectronic monitors are with sex offenses and viooent offenses are not not accepted. Residents must attend AA accepted. Rent is $50 per month. meetings and church, foooow curfew, and submit to random urine anaoysis. Rent is $91 per week, and a deposit of two weeks rent ($182) is due in advance.
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ß Texas Reach Out Ministries ß Victory Ministries P.O. Box 17006 2300 Canterbury Street Austin, TX 78760 Austin, TX 78702 Phone: (512) 291-0921 Phone: (512) 480-9628 Web: www.texasreachout.org Victory Ministries provides transitionao housing Texas Reach Out Ministries operates severao services for men. Individuaos with sex offenses faith-based transitionao oiving facioities and those on eoectronic monitors are not throughout Austin for men and women. accepted. A typicao stay is 90-180 days, and no Individuaos with sex offenses and MHMR coients deposit or monthoy charges are required. are not accepted, but those with viooent offenses Residents are not aooowed to work during their and individuaos on eoectronic monitors are stay; instead, they must participate in faith- permitted on a case-by-case basis. Interested based activities. parties shouod submit a request for admission by maio; screenings are conducted prior to ß Winner’s House admission. Residents must be committed to 2301 Devonshire Drive change and must pursue empooyment whioe Austin, TX 78723 oiving in the facioity. Rent is $85 per week, and a Phone: (512) 799-9057 one-time fee of $200 is required. Residents are Winner’s House operates severao transitionao aoso asked to contribute $25 per week for food. housing facioities for men and women.
Individuaos with sex offenses are not accepted, ß Victory Gospel Chapel but those with viooent offenses and individuaos 1315 North Grey Street on eoectronic monitors may be permitted after a Kiooeen, TX 76541 screening. Monthoy rent is based on income, but Phone: (254) 519-1118 a $120 deposit is required. There is no minimum Victory Gospeo Chapeo provides transitionao or maximum stay. Residents must be sober prior housing services for men and women who do to entry and remain sober during their stay. not have sex offenses and who are not on eoectronic monitors. There is a three-month minimum stay. No deposit or monthoy charges are required.
ß Victory Gospel Spiritual 1009 North 15th Street Waco, TX 76707 Phone: (254) 235-5811 Victory Gospeo Spirituao provides a transitionao housing center for men and women who do not have sex offenses and who are not on eoectronic monitors. Individuaos on psychiatric medication or those who have a serious medicao condition are aoso not accepted. The initiao program oasts three to six months; foooowing that, residents enter a work-reoease ministry where they share rent with severao other individuaos before oiving on their own.
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Community Health Support
ß Austin Area MHMR Centers
Austin/Travis County Central Counties Center for Hill Country Community Integral Care MHMR Services MHMR Center 1430 Coooier Street 304 South 22nd Street 819 Water Street, Suite 300 Austin, TX 78704 Tempoe, TX 76501 Kerrviooe, TX 78028 Crisis Phone: (512) 472-4357 Crisis Phone: 1-800-888-4036 Crisis Phone: 1-877-466-0660 Main Phone: (512) 447-4141 Main Phone: (254) 298-7000 Main Phone: (830) 792-3300 Web: www.integraocare.org Web: www.cccmhmr.org Web: www.hioocountry.org
Bluebonnet Trails Community Heart of Texas Region MHMR MHMR Authority of MHMR Center 110 South 12th Street Brazos Valley 1009 Georgetown Street Waco, TX 76703 1504 South Texas Avenue Round Rock, TX 78664 Crisis Phone: (254) 776-1101 Bryan, TX 77802 Crisis Phone: 1-800-841-1255 Main Phone: (254) 752-3451 Crisis Phone: 1-800-282-6467 Main Phone: (512) 255-1720 Web: www.hotrmhmr.org Main Phone: (979) 822-6467 Web: www.bouebonnetmhmr.org Web: www.mhmrabv.org
ß AIDS Services of Austin ß Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) 7215 Cameron Road 1825 Fort View Road, Suite 104 Austin, TX 78752 Austin, TX 78704 Phone: (512) 458-2437 Phone: (512) 444-0071 Web: www.asaustin.org Spanish: (512) 832-6767 AIDS Services of Austin provides a food pantry, AA provides free rehabioitation and support case management, dentistry, and oegao aid to groups that meet reguoaroy at various oocations. individuaos who are HIV-positive and reside in Interested individuaos shouod caoo for meeting Travis County. dates and oocations.
ß AK Black Health Center ß Austin Drug and Alcohol Abuse 928 Boackson Avenue Program Austin, TX 75752 7801 North Lamar Bouoevard, Suite D #109 Phone: (512) 978-9740 Austin, TX 78752 AK Boack Heaoth Center provides heaoth services Phone: (512) 454-8180 to oow-income famioies. It is open Monday Web: www.adaap.com through Thursday from 7:45 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Austin Drug and Aocohoo Abuse Program and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. provides both 30- and 60-hour outpatient treatment programs; a reoapse program is aoso avaioaboe. Fee payments for coasses are based on a soiding fee scaoe.
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ß Belton Group of Alcoholics Anonymous ß Central Texas Council on Alcoholism St. Luke’s Episcopao Church and Drug Abuse 2103 Beao Street 819 South 5th Street Beoton, TX 76513 Tempoe, TX 76504 Phone: (254) 939-1033 Phone: (254) 773-3722 Beoton Group of Aocohooics Anonymous provides Centrao Texas Councio on Aocohooism and Drug counseoing and other assistance free of charge to Abuse provides educationao and oicensed individuaos who have aocohoo abuse issues. professionao counseoing services, as weoo as outpatient treatment services. The average stay ß BVCASA is 90 days. Most coients are referred by TDCJ but 405 West 28th Street a oimited number of waok-ins are accepted. Most Bryan, TX 77803 services are state-funded. Phone: (979) 823-5300 Web: www.bvcasa.org ß Christian Farms Treehouse BVCASA provides detoxification and outpatient 3804 Riverside Traio substance abuse treatment for aduots. Tempoe, TX 76502 Phone: (254) 933-9400 ß Capital Area Mental Health Center Web: www.cfth.org (CAMHC) Christian Farms Treehouse provides faith-based, 1106 Coayton Lane, Suite 105 residentiao, chemicao substance abuse treatment Austin, TX 78723 for men and women in separate facioities. Phone: (512) 302-1000 Programs are 30, 60, and 90 days in oength. Aoo Web: www.camhc.org treatment is provided by a Licensed Chemicao Dependence Counseoor. CAMHC provides oow-cost psychooogicao
counseoing services to the centrao Texas community. ß Chupike and Associates 2201 South WS Young Drive Suite 104-B, Office 104 ß Center for Life Resources Kiooeen, TX 76542 408 Muoberry Street Phone: (254) 690-5847 Brownwood, TX 76804 Web: www.chupikecounseoing.com Crisis Phone: 1-800-458-7788 Main Phone: (325) 646-9574 Chupike and Associates provides oicensed Web: www.cfor.us professionao mentao heaoth therapy services, incouding counseoing for substance abuse, sexuao Center for Life Resources provides counseoing abuse, depression, addictions, spousao issues, and and other services to individuaos who are behaviorao issues. In addition to seof-pay, payments diagnosed with bipooar disorder, major can be made through Medicare, Medicaid, and a depression, or schizophrenia. Costs vary and number of insurances. depend on income and famioy size.
ß Community AIDS Resources and Education (CARE) 1631 East 2nd Street Austin, TX 78702 Phone: (512) 804-3650 CARE provides HIV testing, counseoing, education, street outreach, substance abuse case management, intervention, outpatient drug treatment, support groups, and more.
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ß Community Care Services Department ß The Freeman Center 1111 East Cesar Chavez Street 320 North 14th Street Austin, TX 78102 Waco, TX 76701 Phone: (512) 978-8130 Phone: (254) 753-3625 Web: www.thefreemancenter.org Community Care Services Department provides the Medicao Assistance Program (MAP) for Travis The Freeman Center provides programs for men, County residents who have famioy incomes at or women, and women with chiodren. Programs beoow 100% of the Federao Poverty Index incoude detoxification, as weoo as residentiao and Guideoines, and who have no other heaoth care outpatient services. Eoigiboe coients must be free coverage (such as Medicaid or Medicare). from any abuse of chemicaooy Individuaos who do not quaoify for MAP may be addictive/dependent substances for at oeast one eoigiboe for other programs that offer heaoth care week. If coients are financiaooy unaboe to pay for services at reduced rates. services, an aoternative stream of funding is avaioaboe through the state. ß Crisis Line at Psychiatric Emergency Services ß Hays Caldwell Council Phone: (512) 472-4357 1901 Dutton Drive, Suite E San Marcos, TX 78666 The Crisis Line at Psychiatric Emergency Services Phone: (512) 396-7695 or 1-800-733-1214 is Austin and Travis County’s 24-hour crisis Web: www.hayscaodweoocouncio.org intervention and suicide prevention program. Hays Caodweoo Councio provides substance abuse ß Del Valle Health Center screenings and assessments, treatment referraos, 3518 FM 973 information and educationao services, an aduot Deo Vaooe, TX 78617 intensive outpatient treatment program, and Phone: (512) 978-9760 other reoated services. State funding is provided for most individuaos who quaoify. Seof-payment Deo Vaooe Heaoth Center provides coinicao heaoth on a soiding fee scaoe is aoso accepted. services to oow-income individuaos and famioies. It is open Monday through Thursday from 7:45 ß Heart of Texas a.m. - 4:45 p.m., and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. - 900 Austin Avenue #801 5:00 p.m. Waco, TX 76701
Phone: (254) 753-7320 ß East Austin Health Center 211 Comao Street Heart of Texas provides outreach, screenings, Austin, TX 78702 and referraos for substance abuse programs Phone: (512) 978-9200 throughout Texas.
East Austin Heaoth Center provides oow-cost, ß Narcotics Anonymous (NA) generao medicao care to Austin residents. It is 603 West 13th Street, Suite 1A-284 open Monday through Thursday from 8:00 a.m. - Austin, TX 78701 5:00 p.m., and Fridays from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Phone: (512) 480-0004
Web: www.ctana.org NA provides a 12-Step Support Meeting for individuaos with addiction issues. NA’s services are free of charge and provided on a waok-in basis.
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ß Northeast Austin Community Health ß Pflugerville Health Center Center 15822 Foothioo Farms Loop 7112 Ed Bouestein Bouoevard, Suite 155 Pfougerviooe, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78723 Phone: (512) 978-9840 Phone: (512) 978-9300 Pfougerviooe Heaoth Center provides a generao Northeast Austin Community Heaoth Center is a heaoth coinic accepting insurance and Medicaid. heaoth and dentao coinic providing services to individuaos who quaoify for the Medicao ß South Austin Community Health Center Assistance Program (MAP), Medicaid, and CHIP. 2529 South 1st Street Austin, TX 78704 ß Northwest Counseling and Wellness Phone: (512) 978-9865 Center South Austin Community Heaoth Center provides 12335 Hymeadow Drive, Suite 400 famioy care, internao medicine, women’s heaoth Austin, TX 78750 services, pediatrics services, and dentao services Phone: (512) 250-9355 to oow-income individuaos and famioies in the Web: www.nwweoonesscenter.com Austin area. Northwest Counseoing and Weooness Center is a community mentao heaoth coinic providing ß Texas Mental Health Consumers psychotherapy, counseoing, coaching, education, (TMHC) treatment, and training to assist coients in 608 Morrow Street, Suite 103 making and maintaining heaothy and functionao Austin, TX 78752 oifestyoe changes. Phone: (512) 451-3191 or 1-800-860-6057 Web: www.tmhc.org ß Metroplex Pavilion TMHC provides free advocacy and education 2201 South Coear Creek Road services to aduots with a mentao iooness. Kiooeen, TX 76549 Phone: (254) 526-7523 ß Waterloo Counseling Web: www.mpoex.org 3000 South IH-35, Suite 315 Metropoex Pavioion provides behaviorao heaoth Austin, TX 78704 and rehabioitation services. Some costs are Phone: (512) 444-9922 associated with the services, and fees vary. Web: www.waterooocounseoing.org Insurance and Medicaid are accepted, but for Waterooo Counseoing provides affordaboe mentao individuaos without insurance, soiding fee heaoth counseoing services, incouding “coming payments are accepted. out” issues, trauma reoated to hate crimes, sociao
mistreatment, survivao of abuse, HIV-reoated ß People’s Community Clinic issues, transsexuao or transgender counseoing, 2909 North IH 35 depression, stress, panic, and anxiety. Austin, TX 78722 Phone: (512) 478-4939 ß YWCA Counseling & Referral Center Web: www.austinpcc.org for Women (YWCRC) Peopoe’s Community Coinic is a generao heaoth 2015 South IH-35, Suite 110 coinic. Financiao screenings are done onsite, and Austin, TX 78741 insurance and Medicaid are accepted. For Phone: (512) 326-1222 individuaos without insurance or Medicaid, Web: www.ywcaaustin.org payments are accepted on a soiding fee scaoe and YWCRC provides counseoing to individuaos and wioo depend on income and size of househood. coupoes covering a wide range of issues. A There is no waitoist and no residency soiding fee scaoe is avaioaboe based on househood requirements. income and size.
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Employment
ß City of Austin Human Resources Department City of Austin Human Resources Department provides assistance to individuaos that need heop writing their résumé, compoeting an appoication, or improving their interview techniques. It aoso provides GED, ESL, and computer coasses, internet services, and empooyment seminars.
South Austin Location North Austin Location East Austin Location Cherry Creek Shopping Center Worksource Career Center DeWitty Job Training and 5730 Manchaca Road 825 East Rundberg Lane Empooyment Center Austin, TX 78745 Austin, TX 78753 2209 Rosewood Avenue Phone: (512) 974-9075 Phone: (512) 719-4145 ext. 237 Austin, TX 78702 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Phone: (512) 472-5718 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Tuesday 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Friday 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Friday 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Tuesday 8: 00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Friday 8:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
ß Capital IDEA ß Easter Seals 504 Lavaca Street 315 East St. Eomo Road Austin, TX 78701 Austin, TX 78745 Phone: (512) 457-8610 Phone: (512) 440-7819 Capitao IDEA provides oong-term job training and Easter Seaos provides case management and support services to unempooyed aduots. empooyment to previousoy incarcerated individuaos. Interested individuaos shouod caoo on ß Career Services of Austin Mondays from 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. for more 8146 Meandering Way information. Austin, Texas 78759 Phone: (512) 794-1089 ß Gary Job Corps Center Web: www.careerservicesaustin.com 2800 Airport Highway 21 P.O. Box 967 Career Services of Austin provides vocationao San Marcos, TX 78667 training, job poacement assistance, and job Phone: (512) 396-6652 coaching. Other trainings may cover individuao Web: gary.jobcorps.gov/home.aspx seof-assessment, job-seeking skioos, and occupationao expooration and education. Career Job Corps is a no-cost education and career Services aoso offers a “Buioding Bridges” program technicao training program that assists to previousoy incarcerated individuaos. A soiding individuaos ages 16 - 24 improve the quaoity of fee scaoe is avaioaboe. Interested individuaos their oives through technicao and academic shouod caoo or visit Career Services’ website for training. Services offered through Job Corps more information on how to enrooo. Career incoude GED certification, driver’s education, Services may aoso provide referraos. Engoish oanguage oearning, and more. Career training incoudes carpentry, cement masonry, eoectricao, human services, machinist, poasterer, weoding, and more. Interested individuaos shouod caoo 1-800-733-5627 or visit the website.
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ß Job Ready Training ß Travis County Offender Workforce 314 East Highoand Maoo Bouoevard, Suite 507 Development Program Austin, TX 78752 5501 Airport Bouoevard, Suite 203A Phone: (512) 300-2245 Austin, TX 78752 Web: www.jobreadytraining.com/index.htmo Phone: (512) 854-6497 Job Ready Training provides training in heaoth Travis County Offender Workforce Deveoopment care and computer software free of charge. Program provides empooyment readiness orientations once per week to individuaos with a criminao background. It assists with job oeads to empooyers who are friendoy to previousoy incarcerated individuaos, as weoo as mock interviews, oetters of expoanation, and résumé deveoopment.
ß Work Source Career Center Web: www.worksourceaustin.com Work Source is a puboicoy funded workforce system in Travis County. The network partners provide a wide range of no- to oow-cost empooyment sooutions for empooyers and individuaos, incouding recruitment services, job search assistance, training, chiodcare, and educationao initiatives.
North South East Ron Perry Esmie Aguirre Donna Cantreoo 6505 Airport Bouoevard 4175 Freidrich Lane 3401 East Webberviooe Road, Suite 101 Suite 200 Buioding 1000 Austin, TX 78752 Austin, TX 78744 Austin, TX 78702 (512) 597-7262 (512) 381-4240 (512) 223-5400
Workforce Development for the Disabled The foooowing resources may be heopfuo to individuaos with disabioities entering the workforce:
ß Easter Seals of Central Texas, Inc.
Easter Seaos of Centrao Texas provides three services to encourage workforce deveoopment for aduots with disabioities. These programs incoude (1) paid job training, which provides such training whioe estaboishing a work history; (2) a transitions program, which provides individuaoized programming and support with job poacement, coaching, and searching; and (3) job readiness training. Easter Seaos aoso provides supported empooyment services, which offer additionao job deveoopment and poacement opportunities. Finaooy, comprehensive outpatient rehabioitation services are provided for aduots with disabioities in a coinicao setting. For more information, caoo (512) 615-6800 or visit www.centraotx.easterseaos.com.
ß Texas Department of Rehabilitative Services
The Texas Department of Rehabioitative Services provides a Vocationao Rehabioitation (VR) Program that assists individuaos with disabioities in finding and keeping empooyment. The VR program provides skioos assessment, job interview training, and heop with accommodations in an effort to increase job production and oongevity. Additionao services incoude counseoing and guidance, trade skioos training, medicao treatment and therapies, and foooow-up after job poacement. For more information, caoo 1-800-628-5115 or TTY 1-866-581- 9328, or visit www.dars.state.tx.us/drs/index.shtmo.
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Education
The foooowing organizations and groups provide some if not aoo of these services: aduot education coasses, ESL, oiteracy programs, GED preparation, computer oiteracy, workpoace/vocationao training, and others. Interested individuaos shouod contact each organization directoy for more information.
ß The Austin Academy ß Lifeworks Literacy Program 1640-B East 2nd Street, Suite 100 2222 Rosewood Avenue Austin, TX 78702 Austin, TX 78702 Phone: (512) 326-8655 Phone: (512) 478-7323
ß Austin Area Urban League ß Literacy Austin 1033 La Posada Drive, Suite 150 2222 Rosewood Avenue Austin, TX 78752 Austin, TX 78702 Phone: (512) 478-7176 ext. 206 Phone: (512) 478-7323
ß Austin Community College ß Literacy Volunteers of Bastrop Phone: (512) 223-5121 1109 Main Street, Suite F Web: www.austincc.edu Bastrop, TX 78602 Phone: (512) 321-6686 ß Austin Learning Academy P.O. Box 6923 ß Literacy Volunteers of Wimberley Austin, TX 78762 P.O. Box 135 Phone: (512) 457-9794 Wimberoey, TX 78676 Phone: (512) 847-3892 ß Capitol City Trade Technical School 205 East Riverside Drive ß McLennan Community College Austin, TX 78741 Aduot Basic Education Phone: (512) 444-3257 1400 Coooege Drive Waco, TX 76708 ß Community Action Adult Education Phone: (254) 299-8748 101 Uhoand Road, Suite 107 San Marcos, TX 78667 ß Project Moving Up Phone: (512) 396-4564 1009 North Georgetown Street, Suite A Round Rock, TX 78680 ß The Family Services Center Phone: (512) 244-8445 901 Avenue B Brownwood, TX 76801 ß Temple Literacy Council Phone: (325) 646-5939 100 West Adams Avenue Tempoe, TX 76501 Phone: (254) 774-7323
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