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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
SMU’s
Graduate School of Psychology, on-the-job training and
transitional living.
Facilities include:
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EMERGENCY
SHELTER BUILDING: Housing
400 men, women and children each night; shower facilities,
clothing room, laundry room and offices for the management
staff. |
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CHAFIN
BUILDING: Meeting rooms for substance abuse
therapies and
AA/NA meetings, group therapy meeting
rooms, computer lab and administrative offices. |
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PATHWAY
HOUSE: 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 five years ago, Pathway House has
"graduated" more
than 200 individuals who made a successful transition back
into the community and/or reconnecting with their families. |
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AUSTIN
STREET CHAPEL: Offering voluntary
worship services three
times each week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday
mornings at 9 a.m.). The chapel has also been the site
of Baptisms, funerals and weddings. |
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PLAYGROUND/BASKETBALL
COURT: Playground/basketball court: Available
to our shelter kids (more than 400 stayed
with us last year)
for supervised play after school.
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WOMEN'S
DORM: For clients with full time jobs, located
inside the
emergency shelter |
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FREE
MEDICAL CARE: From Parkland
Health & Hospital
System's homeless health care van twice a week. |
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