where God's love
changes lives
Austin Street Centre is a "care campus" environment, providing emergency shelter from harm (our main reason for existence), substance abuse counseling, psycho-social therapies in partnership with UT Southwestern Medical School and UNT.
PATHWAY TO PRODUCTIVITY:
Transitional living facility housing 40 men and women who are participants in Austin Street's step-up and work training programs. These individuals are employed and have agreed to save 70% of their income, participate in group and individual therapy sessions and attend required classes. Since opening in the year 2000, Pathway House has "graduated" more than 168 individuals yearly who made a successful transition back into the community and/or reconnecting with their families.
CHAFIN BUILDING:
Meeting rooms for substance abuse therapies and AA/NA meetings, group therapy meeting rooms, computer lab and administrative offices.
EMERGENCY SHELTER BUILDING:
Housing 425 men, women and children each night; shower facilities, clothing room, laundry room, children's play area, dormatories for program participants and offices for executive staff members.
AUSTIN STREET CHAPEL:
Offering voluntary worship services four times each week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings at 9:30 a.m. and Sunday at 10:00 a.m.). The chapel has also been the site of Baptisms, funerals and weddings.
PLAYGROUND/
BASKETBALL COURT: Available to our shelter kids (more than 500 stayed with us last year) for supervised play after school.
MEDICAL CARE:
Parkland Health & Hospital System provides medical services twic a week. Clinics are held using two medical mobile units. Each unit is equipped with clerical and nursing stations, two examination rooms, a class D pharmacy and restroom.
Call Carisa Austin 214.428.4242 to schedule a tour of our campus
© 2006-2010 Austin Street Centre, Inc., a 501(c)(3) charitable organization
Austin Street Centre - 2929 Hickory Street - Dallas, TX 75226