Community Resources

Prevention Services

Activities or programs designed to prevent the incidence of homelessness.

• AIDS Services of Austin
• Any Baby Can
• ARC of the Capital Area
• Austin Tenants' Council
• Best Single Source Project
• Caritas of Austin
• Family Eldercare
• Front Steps
• SafePlace
• The Salvation Army
• Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
• United Way Capital Area (211)

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Supportive Services

Services concerned with employment, health, drug abuse, and education.

• AIDS Services of Austin
• AISD Project Help
• Any Baby Can
• Austin Travis County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center
• Caritas of Austin
• Community Voice Mail
• Family Connections
• Family Eldercare
• Front Steps
• Goodwill Industries of Central Texas
• Health Care for the Homeless
• House the Homeless
• Micah 6
• Mobile Loaves and Fishes
• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill - Austin
• Texas Homeless Education Office (THEO)
• Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
• Trinity Center
• Vincare

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Emergency Shelter

Any facility, the primary purpose of which is to provide temporary or transitional shelter for the homeless in general or for specific populations of the homeless. Most serve specific sub-populations including single adults, families with children, survivors of domestic violence, youth and pregnant, and parenting teens.

• Austin Travis County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center
• Austin Resource Center for the Homeless (operated by Front Steps)
• Austin Shelter for Women and Children (operated by the Salvation Army)
• Casa Marianella
• Foundation for the Homeless
• LifeWorks
• SafePlace
• The Salvation Army

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Transitional Housing

One type of supportive housing used to facilitate movement of homeless individuals and families to permanent housing. Housing in which homeless persons can live in for up to 24 months and receive supportive services that enable them to live more independently.

• Austin Travis County Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center
• Blackland Transitional Housing
• Caritas of Austin - Re-entry
• Community Partnership for the Homeless
• Family Eldercare
• LifeWorks
• Marywood (Transitional Living Program)
• Push-Up Foundations, Inc
• SafePlace
• The Salvation Army - Passages/
• Vincare

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Permanent Supportive Housing

Affordable housing with supportive services, designed for persons with disabilities. This housing has no time limits and is intended to be a home as long as a person chooses to live there. Supportive services help residents live as independently as possible and may be provided on site, or by visiting staff.

• Garden Terrace
• Foundation Communities
• Shelter Plus Care (operated by ATCMHMR)

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