For a list of treatment centers in the state of Texas, visit the Texas Department of State Health Services web site: www.tcada.state.tx.us/treatment/. The following list includes local nonprofit agencies that offer services, which you or your family may need while you are in treatment and as you enter your new life as a recovering addict.
Attitudes & Attire
Attitudes & Attire's mission is to promote personal growth for economically disadvantaged women by helping them develop self-esteem, work ethics and confidence in the workplace. www.attitudesandattire.org
Child and Family Guidance Center
The mission of the Child and Family Guidance Center is to provide quality, accessible mental health services to strengthen children, families, and communities. www.childrenandfamilies.org
Dallas Life Foundation
The Dallas Life Foundation is a non-profit corporation established to meet the needs of the poor and homeless of the Dallas metropolis.
www.dallaslife.org
Dallas Metrocare Services (MHMR)
Dallas Metrocare Services provides quality services, treatments and assistance to people who live with the challenges of mental illness and mental retardation. www.dallasmetrocare.com
Dispute Mediation Service, Inc.
Dispute Mediation Service (DMS) is a private, nonprofit organization that provides accessible, high-quality dispute resolution service such as mediation, conciliation, arbitration, and training for the people in Dallas County.
www.dms-adr.org
The Family Place
The Family Place is a Dallas-based, nonprofit organization that provides assistance to victims of family violence.
www.familyplace.org
Galaxy Counseling Center
The Galaxy Counseling Center provides high quality, low cost counseling services for children, teens, adults, couples, and families. Their mission is to promote healthy family relationships and reduce the incidence of child abuse and family violence. www.galaxycounseling.org
Genesis Women's Shelter
Genesis Women's Shelter's mission is to provide quality safety and shelter to battered women and their children through crisis intervention and short-term crisis therapeutics and to reduce the occurrence of violence against women and children in the greater Dallas area.
www.genesisshelter.org
Girls, Inc.
Girls Incorporated of Metropolitan Dallas encourages girls to discover their own identity, develop their potential and grow in their sense of responsibility to self, family, and community. It provides female-focused programs that empower girls to take charge of their lives. www.girlsincdallas.org
Greater Dallas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse
GDCADA provides various services including school-based prevention, prevention resource materials and screening and referral.
www.gdcada.org
Homeward Bound
Homeward Bound's mission is to provide programs and professional services, which promote the development of positive behavioral health and independence for individuals and families caught up in the cycles of substance abuse and addiction, criminal behavior and mental illness.
www.homewardboundinc.org
Housing Crisis Center
The Housing Crisis Center has served Dallas and surrounding counties for more than 25 years. They provide rent and utility assistance along with legal advice on housing matters.
www.hccdallas.org
Kid Net Foundation
Kid Net Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk and underserved children and their families by providing quality residential and outreach programs. Kid Net operates Jonathan's Place, a licensed emergency shelter providing temporary transitional living services for abused, neglected, abandoned and drug-affected children, newborn - age 11.
www.kidnet.org
LifeNet
Recognizing the value and potential of every human being, LifeNet provides rehabilitative services for individuals with behavioral healthcare needs so they may achieve their maximum self-sufficiency and re-integration into the community and family.
www.lifenettexas.org
Mosaic Family Services, Inc.
Mosaic Family Services, Inc. (formerly the East Dallas Counseling Center) is a nonprofit community based organization targeting the culturally diverse and medically indigent families living in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. They provide individuals and families without cost, battered family facilities, crisis counseling and drug, alcohol, mental health and disease prevention and intervention services.
www.edcctexas.org/
New Beginning Center
The mission of New Beginning Center is to foster an environment of safety, support and respect for families affected by domestic violence. They do so through crisis intervention, counseling, shelter, education, advocacy, and diverse community partnerships. www.newbeginningcenter.org
Parkland Health & Hospital System
Parkland provides high quality, low cost medical, hospital and other health related services to the indigent and medically needy of Dallas County.
www.parklandhospital.com
Planned Parenthood of North Texas, Inc.
Planned Parenthood of North Texas is dedicated to the achievement of parenthood by choice, by ensuring the provision of voluntary reproductive health care and sexuality education and by advocating for the right of every person to receive these services.
www.ppnt.org
The Stewpot
The purpose of The Stewpot ministry is to address the needs of the whole person, such as food, clothing, shelter, employment and self-esteem. In addition to providing the nourishing meals that its name implies, it protects the homeless from the chills of winter and the heat of Texas summer.
www.presbyterians.org/community.html
Texas Department of Human Services
The Texas Department of Human Services helps people in crisis help themselves. They come to the aid of the elderly, people with disabilities, and poverty-stricken families who have no other place to turn.
www.dhs.state.tx.us/regions/03/
Texas Workforce Commission
The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) is the state government agency charged with overseeing and providing workforce development services to employers and job seekers of Texas. For job seekers, TWC offers career development information, job search resources, training programs, and, as appropriate, unemployment benefits.
www.twc.state.tx.us