Austin Street Centre for the Homeless
This ministry continues its missionas a residential, pastoral care program offering help and hope to 350+ men,women and children each day. Persons staying at the Centre are provided withtheir basic needs such as food, showers, clothing, personal items and over thecounter medications. In addition to the basics, Austin St. provides medical andpsychiatric clinics in relationship with Southwestern Medical School thatprovides four psychiatric residents and two psychological interns for theministries programs.
Brighter Tomorrow Emergency Shelter and Services
The mission of Brighter Tomorrows is to provide emergencyshelter and support services to those in fear of domestic or sexual violenceand to break the poverty/welfare cycle through training and assistance inobtaining employment. For moreinformation on the ministry contact Brighter Tomorrows at 1215 McArthur Irving,TX, call 972-223-2066, or visit brightertomorrows.net.
CitiVision
This ministry was founded to provide real life opportunities for city ministry. It has grownto include a retreat center for youth, a rehabilitiation camp, and an innercity school. God has provided a 250-acre parcel ofland located in the beautiful Catskill Mountain/Hudson Valley region, justeighty (80) miles north of New York City as a venue to bring the youth andadults out of their urban communities and into God's beautiful creation.
The facility includes a retreat center that can accommodate over 200 people perweek and summer camps that can accommodate 350 youth per week. Since itsinception, CitiVision has reached over 15,000 un-churched youth and adults withthe Gospel of Jesus Christ. CitiVision also partners with many multi-ethnicchurches and groups from a wide socio-economic range, by providing a placewhere they can be equipped and motivated to be involved in inner-city ministry.
For more information on this ministry contact Tom Mahairasat 212-567-6411 or visit www.citivision.org.
Central Dallas Ministries
This is one of the more outstandingorganizations touching the suffering of Dallas. CDC offers a variety of services to the Dallas metroplex area, they are:
· CentralDallas Food Pantry provides groceries and emergency assistance to over 30,000people each year. The largest food pantry in Dallas.
· CommunityHealth Services (CHS) operates two health clinics and provides medical, dental,pediatric, well woman and diabetes services to over 20,000 uninsured patientsper year.
· EducationalOutreach programs provides after- school programs, tutoring, college prep andsummer programs to children of all ages.
· L.A.W.Center, or Legal Action Works, provides free and low-cost legal care to theworking poor.
· CyberSpotis a neighborhood technology center that provides computer access, technology training and IT classes to the entire community.
· TRAC,or the Transition Resource Action Center, helps foster teens navigate thedifficult transition to adulthood.
· UrbanEngagement Book Club as a way to bring the community together in conversationover matters of social justice.
· In2005, CDM accepted management responsibility for a community life center andgymnasium at the Dallas Housing Authority’s (DHA)
The Community Diabetes Education program (CoDE)
A program under Community Health Services (CHS), which has also received nationalattention in the medical field for its work in screening, prevention and long-term support to helpDiabetics manage their disease.
The DallasLife Foundation
This charitable non-profit organization governed by a volunteerboard of trustees and is designed to meet the needs of homeless men, women,children and families in the Dallas metroplex. The men’s dorm can house 350 residents and the women’s dormhouses 80. In addition to thedormitories, Dallas Life Foundation has 50 individual family unit rooms. This capacity is extended during freezing or inclement weather by adding floor mats.
PACE (Personal and Community Empowerment)
A program through which neighborhood leaders in the Roseland Homescommunity are learning the skills that they need to work with their neighborsto create grass- roots movements aimed at improving the community.
Projects of Blessing for Values, Purity & Quality of Life
“The mission of the Dallas Pregnancy Resource Center is to offer Christ-like love in a compassionate and responsive manner that values thefamily and empowers women and their partners to choose life.” Services they provide include: Counseling,Pregnancy Testing / Confirmation of Pregnancy for Medicaid, DPRC MedicalClinic, Birth Control Consult, Nutrition and Prepared Childbirth Classes,Material Assistance for Mother and Baby, and One-On-One Mentoring. For more information on the ministry contact Dallas Life Foundation at 214-421-1380 orvisit www.dallaslife.org.
Reconciliation Outreach
This heartfelt ministry offers a men’s program (9-monthresidential program for addictions and dysfunctional history), women’s program(9-month residential program tailored for women and children), affordablehousing, children and youth programs (alternatives to gangs and street life for children and teens). The organization alsooffers a faith-based mentoring program for children and teens called Crusaders.
