Education

Provides information and promotes public awareness about mental retardation. Offers advocacy services for citizens with retardation and supports respite care, residential and work programs.

Phone Number: 281-388-1161

Web Site: www.arcgc.org

Provides programs designed to provide a positive peer environment in which youth learn to achieve and to develop life-long skills in making ethical decisions about their lives.

Phone Number: 409.744.5206 

Web Site: www.bacbsa.org

Mission is to inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. Services provided are after school and holiday camp programs, gang prevention services, life-skills education and cultural and social development activities.

Phone Number: 979.373.9668

Web Site: www.bgcbc.com

Uses an "In-School" multi-disciplinary approach to increase the stay-in-school rate in Brazoria County schools. Promotes and facilitates the delivery of community social services, as well as health, educational and other support services for the family and the youth who are in "at-risk" situations or engaging in delinquent behavior.

Phone Number: 979.849.0321 

Web Site: www.cistxjv.org

Provides a place where girls can develop leadership and teamwork skills, become financially savvy, develop and identify their own values and morals, learn to relate to others and develop their self-potential in a fun and energetic environment.

Phone Number: 713.292.0300     

Web Site: www.gssjc.org

Provides day care and preschool education for children 6 weeks to 13 years for low-income families so that parent(s) may work or train for employment.

Phone Number: 281.585.2621

Provides childcare, preschool and an after-school program for children 6 weeks to 12 years whose parents are moderate to low-income working people and/or in school.

Phone Number: 979.233.2393 

Professional counseling for children, youth and families. Provides education/preventive programs to children, parents and the community including child abuse prevention programs, parenting classes and professional training. CASA volunteers advocate for children and parent volunteers mentor new parents.

Phone Number: 979.864.1577

Web Site: www.yfcs.org

Health

Phone Number: 979.849.2447 or 877.714.1766

Web Site: www.bacheci.org

Provides education, screenings, assessments, counseling, referral, prevention services throughout Brazoria, Galveston, Harris and Matagorda counties, organized community coalitions to address underage drinking.

Phone Number: 281-212-2900

Web Site: www.bacoda.com

Residential treatment center for adults, male and female, with a serious substance abuse problem, and those who are dual diagnosed in need of residential treatment services who express a desire to begin the process of recovery from addiction to alcohol or other drugs.

Phone Number: 979.233.3826 

Web Site: www.brazosplace.org

Provides long-term care and transitional living for abused, abandoned and neglected children aged 7 – 18 years in a 24-hour residential setting. Public school, activities, tutoring and counseling are provided. 

Phone Number: 979.233.7281

Web Site: thechildrenscenterinc.org

Provides medical and dental care, a chiropractor, a podiatrist, an ophthalmologist, and houses WIC, Youth & Family Counseling Services and the Jesse Tree.

Phone Number: 979.239.1633

Provides an alternative to hospitalization by supporting the patient and family in their home, in a nursing home or in an assisted living facility. Also provides the community with valuable resources for information on end-of-life issues.

Phone Number: 979.297.6043 or 800.545.8738

Web Site: hospicecareteam.org

Supports families through individual and group interaction, educating family members and professionals about serious mental illnesses and advocating for services for people with brain disorders.

Phone Number: 281.585.3100

Web Site: www.namigulfcoast.org

Support services and counseling to families of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and high-risk infants. Medical services to infant apnea patients and monitoring services are also available.

Phone Number: 979.299.2814 or 800.245.7437       

Web Site: www.swsids.com

Phone Number: 800.243.5788

Income

Provides meals and social and support services to persons aged 60 years and older so that they can maintain their dignity, independence and purpose of life.

Phone Number: 979.849.6132

Provides free instruction to adults with low English literacy skills through one on one, small group and classroom instruction. Computer Literacy and Citizenship Classes are also available.

Phone Number: 281.485.1000  

Web Site:adultreadingcenter.org

Provides disaster preparedness and relief, services to military families, health education, first aid training, CPR training and water safety.

Phone Number: 979.849.6439  

Web Site: houstonredcross.org

Experienced legal counsel to clients for civil cases only, including: representing rights of persons with handicaps or disabilities; the elderly; assisting with housing and consumer problems.

Phone Number: 800.244.5492

Web Site: lonestarlegal.org

Provides various programs including youth, family and elderly services. Houses a variety of social services.

Phone Number: 281.485.1987

Web Site: www.pnctexas.com

Phone Number: 979.233.5420

Web Site: www.salvationarmy.org