Official State Website: http://www.state.tx.us

President and Vice President: www.whitehouse.gov

State Representative: http://www.house.gov/

Senators: http://www.senate.gov/

Local Child Abuse Number: 800-252-5400 (in state)
512-834-3784 (out of state)

Children's Rights Foundation:
1-800-329-KIDS
http://www.preventchildabusenow.org/

National Child Traumatic Stress Network:
http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=abt_ntwk

DePelchin Children's Center Child Traumatic Stress
Contact: Robert Hartman
Phone: (713) 802-7774
Email: Rhartman@depelchin.org
Web: http://www.depelchin.org/

SCAN's Border Traumatic Stress Response Center
Contact: Luis E. Flores
Phone: (956) 724-3177
Email: luis@scan-inc.org
Web: http://www.scan-inc.org/

Shelters

Arlington Life Shelter
Becky Orander, Executive Director
325 W. Division Street
Arlington, TX 76011
Phone: (817)548-9885

Austin Street Centre
2929 Hickory Street
Dallas, TX 75226
Phone: 214-428-4242
FAX: 214-421-9571

Central Texas Youth Services Bureau
1606 E. Hwy. 190
Copperas Cove, TX 76522
Phone: (817)547-5665 (800)421-TEEN (24-hour hot line)
FAX: (817)634-1049

Central Texas Youth Services Bureau
P. O. Box 185
Killeen, TX 76540
Phone: (817)634-2085 (800)421-TEEN (24-hour hot line)
FAX: (817)634-1049

Door of Hope Mission
First and Lee
Odessa, TX 79760
Phone: (915)337-8294
Faith City
401 E. 2nd Street
Amarillo, TX 79105
Phone: (806)373-6402

Good Samaritan Resue Mission (Corpus Christi)
Good Samaritan Mission
210 South Alameda
Corpus Christi, TX 78403
Phone: (512)883-6195

Grayson County Shelter, Inc.
331 W. Morton Street
Denison, TX 75020
Phone: 903-465-6041
FAX: 903-465-6067

Highway 80 Rescue Mission
501 Melrose
Longview, TX 75604
Phone: (903)759-9875

Maurin-day Shelter
1608 Leopard Street
P. O. Box 3315
Corpus Christi, TX 78463-3315
Phone: 361-882-1202

Mission Arlington
Tillie Burgen, Director
210 W. South Street
Arlington, TX 76104
Phone: (817) 277-6620

Port Cities Rescue Mission of Port Arthur
900 Sixth Street
Port Arthur, TX 77640
Phone: (409)982-0202

Rescue Mission of El Paso
1949 W. Paisano
El Paso, TX 79922-1616
Phone: 915-532-2575
FAX: 915-532-2762 (Administration)
915-532-5287 (Resource Development)

Salvation Army Red Shield Lodge
811 East 10th
Odessa, TX 79760
Phone: 915-332-0738

Search for Truth Ministry
709 Waco Street
Corpus Christi, TX 78401
Phone: 361-882-4143

Star of Hope Mission
6801 Ardmore
Houston, TX 77054
Phone: 713-748-7242
FAX: 713-748-5941

Texas Homeless Network
200 E. 8th Street
Austin, TX 78701-3210
Phone: (512)482-8270

Twin City Mission
500 N. Main
Bryan, TX 77803
Phone: 979-822-7511
FAX: 979-822-2674

Union Gospel Mission of Fort Worth:
Union Gospel Mission
922 Park Avenue
Dallas, TX 75201
Phone: (214)747-5606

Women's Shelters

Domestic Violence:
http://www.tcfv.org
http://www.sboard.org/resources.htm?

Texas Council On Family Violence
P.O. Box 161810
Austin, TX 78716
(512) 794-1133 Fax: (512) 794-1199
(800) 525-1978 In State
Website: http://www.tcfv.org/

National Domestic Violence Hotline:
http://www.ndvh.org/help/help_in_area.html

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence:
http://www.ncadv.org

National Network to End Domestic Violence:
http://www.nnedv.org

Directory of Women's Shelters:
http://wedirectyou.com/womennmr/women.htm

Sounding Board Counseling Center:
http://www.sboard.org then click on shelters in your State

Community Action Program:
http://www.tacaa.org/counties.htm
http://www.ncaf.org/linkcaas.htm

Head Start Program:
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/thssco/map.htm
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/hsb/hsweb/index.jsp
http://www.headstartinfo.org/infocenter/ehs_tkit1.htm

State Listings of Charities

Federal Trade Commission: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/tmarkg/charity.htm

Office of the Attorney General
Consumer Protection
P.O. Box 12548, Capital Station
Austin, TX 78711-2548
http://www.oag.state.tx.us/consumer/charitabletrusts.shtml

Search by State

Family and Youth Services:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/

Human Services
http://www.hhs.gov/

Government Grants:
http://www.firstgov.gov/
http://www.grants.gov/
http://www.govbenefits.gov/govbenefits_en.portal

Housing Grants:
http://www.hud.gov/offices/cpd/communitydevelopment/programs/
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ocs/csbg/

Health Care: For the Uninsured
http://ask.hrsa.gov/pc/

Help finding healthcare in your area:
http://www.healthfinder.gov/healthcare/

Emergency Food and Shelter:
http://www.efsp.unitedway.org/EFSP/WC.DLL?EFSP~FundedStates