Guide to Resources in Austin, TX
Resources for Youth in the New Austin, TX area
The SYSC Resource Guide links you to services and programs in your community that supports health, wellness, and overall well-being. These resources are intended to help in building a network that will enable and empower you to become a Stronger Youth and help us to create a Stronger Community. We hope that you will engage them as needed and share these contacts with friends, family, neighbors, and peers as tools to address the various challenges that you and others may face today or in the future.
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Austin Voices For Education & Youth |
Austin Voices for Education and Youth creates community collaboration to strengthen families, support kids and improve schools |
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Creative Active |
We spark and support the academic, social, and emotional development of young people. |
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LifeWorks Sooch Foundation Youth & Family Resource Center |
LifeWorks is a fearless advocate for youth and families seeking their path to self-sufficiency. We are committed to innovative problem solving, shared accountability and a relentless focus on achieving real, sustainable and measurable results for the clients we serve. |
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Austin Child Guidance Center |
The mission of the Austin Child Guidance Center is to improve the mental health of children and their families through early intervention, diagnosis and treatment to help them develop the emotional skills to face life’s challenges. |
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Austin Travis County Integral Care |
We support adults and children living with mental illness, substance use disorder and intellectual and developmental disabilities in Travis County |
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Capital Area Center |
To provide affordable, accessible, high-quality mental health services to all central Texans who desire them and an unparalleled training environment for pre- and post-graduate therapists from all of the helping professions. |
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Lone Star Circle of Care, Austin |
Lone Star Circle of Care provides exceptional and accessible patient centered healthcare for our Texas neighbors. |
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More Than A Teacher Test Prep |
Offer ACT and SAT prep and bootcamps |
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Love the SAT! |
SAT and ACT prep. Tutoring is offered online and in person. |
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Goodwill Central Texas - Rosewood Job Help Center |
Helps youth find job and proper training. |
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Workforce Solutions Capital Area (North) |
Workforce Solutions Capital Area Workforce Board (WFS Capital Area) is the leadership and governing body for the regional workforce system |
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Texas Foster Youth Justice Project |
The Texas Foster Youth Justice Project helps current and former foster youth in Texas. We help foster youth understand their legal rights. We provide legal advice, assistance, guidance and representation in enforcing foster youth rights. We also educate the general public about the legal needs and concerns of foster youth. |
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LifeWorks South Austin Youth & Family Resource Center |
LifeWorks is a fearless advocate for youth and families seeking their path to self-sufficiency. We are committed to innovative problem solving, shared accountability and a relentless focus on achieving real, sustainable and measurable results for the clients we serve. |
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Texas Legal Services Center |
We're a nonprofit working towards civil justice for all Texans—no matter their ability to earn. |
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Texas RioGrande Legal Aid |
TRLA attorneys specialize in more than 45 practice areas, including family, employment, foreclosure, bankruptcy, subsidized housing, farmworker, civil rights, and environmental law. |
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Equal Justice Center |
The Equal Justice Center (EJC) is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society – regardless of immigration status. |
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas |
As a Big Brother or Big Sister you can change a child’s life for the better, forever. A little bit of time can make a lifetime of difference to a child. |
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Seedling |
Across Central Texas, children live with the shame and stigma that often comes with being challenged by parental incarceration. |
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Texas State Affordable Housing Corporation |
TSAHC believes every Texan deserves safe, decent, affordable housing. Our programs target the housing needs of low-income families and underserved communities. |
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American YouthWorks |
provide young people with opportunities to build careers, strengthen communities, and improve the environment through education, on-the-job training, and service to others. |
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Project Help |
Project HELP's mission is to ensure the educational rights and protections due under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to all students experiencing homelessness. |
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Lanier High school Family Resource Center |
We believe our public schools can serve as powerful hubs for bringing neighborhoods, families and students together to achieve positive change. |
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East Austin College Prep |
EAPrep doesn’t just get students excited to attend college. It prepares them with the academic and social skills necessary to survive in the university environment and beyond. |
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KIPP Austin College Prep |
KIPP Austin College Prep is a school that firmly believes that in order for a student to thrive in college, they need to have strong character, strong intellectual habits, and strong academics. |
http://www.kippaustin.org/schools-and-programs/grades-5-8/kipp-austin-college-prep/ |