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Resource Offices
For over 60 years,
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of
Galveston-Houston has served the social and
health needs of the Houston and Galveston
communities by providing programs aimed at
promoting and facilitating self-sufficiency.
Services are provided in the following four
divisions:
Children and
Family Services: adoption and foster
care, counseling (children, family,
individual), post adoption counseling and
search, services to pregnant and parenting
adolescents.
Community
Outreach: AIDS ministry, disaster
relief, family emergency assistance at
Galveston County Center and Guadalupe
Center, Services to the Alone and Frail
Elderly (SAFE), transitional living for
women at Villa Guadalupe, temporary living
for patients of the Texas Medical Center at
Serenity House.
Immigration and
Refugee Services: legal assistance
through St. Frances Cabrini Center for
Immigrant Legal Assistance, refugee
resettlement, St. Jerome’s Home for
Children, St. Michael’s Home for Children.
Parish Relations
and Advocacy: advocacy for social
justice and human needs, training and
support for parish and community leaders.
For more information
on Catholic Charities programs, call (713)
526-4611 or visit
www.catholiccharities.org
The following
agencies either provide services directly or
offer referrals for individuals and families
seeking counseling or community assistance.
Respect Life
Office
If the matter
pertains to an unwanted pregnancy, please
contact Marcella Colbert, director of the
Archdiocesan Respect Life Office at (713)
741-8728 or
mcolbert@archgh.org
or visit
www.archgh.org/pastoral_respectlife.htm
Other Agencies
The following
agencies either provide services directly or
offer referrals for individuals and families
seeking counseling or community assistance.
• Crisis
Hotline of Houston: (713) 228-1505
• Crisis
Intervention of Houston: (713) 533-4500
• Bo’s
Place: (713) 942-8339
• United
Way of the Texas Gulf Coast: (713)
685-2300
• United
Way Helpline: (713) 957-4357
• If
something about your relationship with your
partner scares you and you need to talk,
call the
National Domestic Violence Hotline at
1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or 1-800-787-3224
(TTY) or visit their website
www.ndvh.org
National Catholic
Council on Alcoholism and Drug Related
Problems, Inc.
This organization
committed to assisting its members and other
people in the community to achieve a greater
awareness of alcoholism, other chemical
addiction, and prevention issues. For
detailed information please visit their
website at
www.nccatoday.org.
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Parenting Information Referral Services
Escape Family
Resource Center
For court-ordered and
other parenting classes at (713) 942-9500 or
visit
www.escapefrc.org
Houston Area
Professional Parenting Education Network
(HAPPEN)
Offers a listing of
available parenting education classes at
www.happentx.org
Depelchin
Children’s Center
For court-ordered and
other parenting classes at (713) 802-3888 or
visit
www.depelchin.org
Special Youth
Services
For juvenile
court-ordered and other parenting classes at
(713) 741-8779
For more extensive
information on referrals, please contact
Maritza Cano-Roman, Associate Director of
the Archdiocesan Family Life Office at (713)
741-8711 or
mroman@archgh.org
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