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Houston
ARK Program - Adults Relating to Kids
Lone Star College University Park
20515 SH 249
Suite CB-122
Houston, TX 77070
Services Offered: The ARK Program helps parents learn to be more accepting of themselves, which empowers them to give and receive unconditional love. Initially assisting female offenders incarcerated at the Plane State Jail, in Dayton, Texas, this program continues its efforts through an aftercare program that works with the families once the parent is out of prison and reunited with their children. Services in the aftercare may include continued parenting classes and referrals to area resources to assist in the transition from prison to community.
Contact Information:
(713) 471-8922
AVANCE
4281 Dacoma St.
Houston, TX 77092
Services Offered: AVANCE offers an array of parenting education, literacy, and marriage relationship programs to provide families with the tools they need to achieve economic and educational success. These programs include: Parent and Child Education, Healthy Marriages, Fatherhood, Adult Literacy, Even Start, Head Start, and Early Head Start.
Contact Information:
(713) 812-0033
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston
1003 Washington Ave
Houston, TX 77002
(also serves Fort Bend and Montgomery Counties)
Services Offered: Big Brothers Big Sisters is a volunteer organization that provides children support, guidance, friendship and fun by matching them to adult role models. For more than 75 years, Big Brothers Big Sisters has fulfilled their mission of enriching, encouraging and empowering children to reach their highest potential through safe, positive mentoring relationships.
Contact Information:
(888) 887-2447
Career and Recovery Resources, Inc.
2525 San Jacinto
Houston, TX 77002
Services Offered: Provides services for persons with barriers such as older age, illiteracy, disabilities, homelessness, lack of skills, substance abuse, and at-risk behavior. The Employment Programs help individuals prepare for entry into the job market, identify employment opportunities, and learn job retention techniques. Career Counseling Services offers educational and vocational guidance.
Contact Information:
(713) 754-7007
ChildBuilders
2425 Fountain View Dr. Ste 210
Houston, TX 77057
Services Offered: Improves the quality of family life by teaching parents and their children important skills to help them lead healthier lives.
Contact Information:
(713) 481-6555
DePelchin Children’s Center
4950 Memorial Drive
Houston, TX 77007
(also serves Angleton, Baytown, Brookshire, Dickinson, Richmond, Stafford and The Woodlands)
Services Offered: Provides services to assist with the barrage of social and emotional problems that plague today's youth and families, including teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse, youth violence, divorce, abandonment and neglect.
Contact Information:
(888) 730-2335
(713) 730-2335
Family Services of Greater Houston
4625 Lillian Street
Houston, TX 77007
Services Offered: Provides individual/family counseling, parent resource services, life skills, school programs and substance abuse prevention and education.
Contact Information:
(713) 861-4849
Gulf Coast Community Services Association
9320 Kirby Dr.
Houston, TX 77054
Services Offered: Provides help for low income residents to become self sufficient by offering housing, counseling, senior services, adult education classes, summer youth services, after school programs, clothing and school supply vouchers, food pantries, bus tokens for job search and medical appointments, transportation for elderly and disabled individuals, family needs assessments with follow-up, an employment skills program, prescription vouchers for needed medication, and a Head Start program for children in southeast Houston, Pasadena, Deer Park and South Houston. It also offers an Early Head Start program in the Fifth Ward area for 72 infants and toddlers and 12 expectant mothers.
Contact Information:
(713) 393-4700
Harris County Community Supervision and Corrections Department
9111 Eastex Frwy
Houston, TX 77093
Services Offered: Drug Court-Group, individual counseling, sex offender unit, family counseling.
Contact Information:
(713) 696-2000
Kickstart Kids
10222 Westheimer Rd
Houston, TX 77042
(also serves Galveston, Katy, Missouri City and Sugar Land)
Services Offered: A martial arts training program designed for children to build resilience skills by teaching them to take responsibility for their behavior, resist negative peer pressure and make responsible decisions.
Contact Information:
(713) 868-6003
Lord of the Streets Episcopal Church, Community of the Streets Outreach
3401 Fannin
Houston, TX 77004
Services Offered: Provides direct assistance to clients, such as food and clothing, case management, and emergency shelter.
Contact Information:
(713) 526-0311
PACE Youth Programs, Inc.
201 East 9th Street
Houston, TX 77007
Services Offered: Provides a comprehensive life skills program aimed at youth to provide them a path away from a criminal lifestyle. The mentoring and training provide youth and their caregivers the techniques, tools, support and methods for coping while the parent is incarcerated. Services include relationship-based support (mentoring, counseling, community building); skill-based support (decision making, effective communication, anger management); and need-based support (tutoring).
Contact Information:
(713) 550-3296
Riverside General Hospital
3204 Ennis Street
Houston, TX 77004
Services Offered: Provides quality, comprehensive medical inpatient and outpatient care in conjunction with mental health diagnostic testing, dental and substance abuse services to all patients/clients.
Contact Information:
(713) 526-2441
The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD
9401 SW Freeway
Houston, TX 77074
Services Offered: Provides a variety of mental health services, including crisis intervention, screening, assessment, psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and service coordination. Has a specific mental health program geared toward youth that are at risk to or have become involved in the juvenile justice system.
Contact Information:
(713) 970-7000
U.S. Dream Academy
3919 Ward St.
Houston, TX 77021
Services Offered: Through aggressive and innovative academic enrichment and mentoring, the academy works to build dreams of children with a family history of incarceration and those falling behind in school; and to provide the tools that they need to achieve their dreams. Located in the Third Ward Multi-Service Center, the program offers after-school access to computers, and tutorial and remedial after-school education. Children in the program work each day on areas in which they are struggling academically and meet with their individual mentor once a week after school. The hours of operation for this program are 3 – 7 p.m., Monday – Friday.
Contact Information:
(832) 544-4682
Volunteers of America
4808 Yale St
Houston, TX 77018
Services Offered: Provides transitional housing to eligible individuals or women with children. Additional community programs include substance abuse treatment and children and youth services.
Contact Information:
(713) 460-0781
Wellspring Family & Community Institute, LLC
440 Benmar Dr.
Houston, TX 77060
Services Offered: Comprehensive mental health and counseling. Services are provided for individuals and families within the Greater Houston area without regard to race, national origin, sex, age, religion, or disability. Some services are provided in the home, school, hospitals, or community centers.
The Come to Me Project provides family and individual counseling, mentoring and in-school academic support to children ages 8 to 17 that have an incarcerated parent(s).
Contact Information:
(281) 272-1998
YMCA Downtown
808 Pease St.
Houston, TX 77002
Services Offered: In addition to recreation activities associated with YMCA, this locations provides case management, life skills, food and clothing pantry, and transportation assistance, childcare and after school programs.
Contact Information:
(713) 659-8501
Huntsville
The Good Shepherd Mission
1005 Martin Luther King Dr.
Huntsville, TX 77320
Services Offered: Provides emergency shelter, food bank, traveler’s aid, work assistance, and a thrift shop.
Contact Information:
(936) 291-8156