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The Austin Children’s Shelter is an emergency shelter offering a safe haven
for children who are removed from their homes due to life-threatening abuse
or neglect. The children who come through our doors are traumatized, hurt,
angry and despondent.
Since 1984, Austin Children's Shelter has provided the high quality care and
critical services they need to begin the healing process including individual
and group therapy, medical and dental care, and educational assistance.
The individual attention given to the needs of each child helps them to feel
safe while re-building their self-esteem. Our goal is to reduce the emotional
trauma suffered by child victims of abuse and neglect and to lay a foundation
of hope for a better future.
For more information visit www.austinchildrenshelter.org/
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Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) exists with the intent to create a safer
environment for abused children. We exist as a body of Bikers to empower
children to not feel afraid of the world in which they live. We stand ready to
lend support to our wounded friends by involving them with an established,
united organization. We work in conjunction with local and state officials who
are already in place to protect children.
We desire to send a clear message to all involved with the abused child that
this child is part of our organization, and that we are prepared to lend our
physical and emotional support to them by affiliation, and our physical
presence. We stand at the ready to shield these children from further abuse.
We do not condone the use of violence or physical force in any manner,
however, if circumstances arise such that we are the only obstacle preventing
a child from further abuse, we stand ready to be that obstacle. For more
information, visit www.bacausa.com
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CASA of Travis County is a non profit organization that offers support and
guidance to children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse
and neglect. Court Appointed Special Advocates are recruited, screened,
trained and supervised volunteers who spend valuable one on one time with
children and help them to navigate the foster care process. CASA’s offer a
constant presence in the child’s life and a voice in court. CASA of Travis
County was created in 1985 and serves over 60% of the children in need.
CASA’s ultimate goal is to serve every single child removed from their home
due to abuse or neglect.
For more information, visit www.casatravis.org/
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Planned Parenthood, Austin’s most trusted name in reproductive health care,
has provided high-quality, affordable, preventative health care in Austin since
1938. Today, our three nonprofit health centers provide education and health
care to more than 33,000 Central Texans each year.
For more information,
visit:www.plannedparenthood.org/ppaustin/index.htm
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The Center for Child Protection, a nationally accredited Children’s Advocacy
Center, is the first stop for children who are suspected victims of sexual abuse,
serious physical injury and for children who have witnessed a violent crime.
The Center is a child-friendly, specially equipped facility where children
receive recorded forensic interviews, medical exams, counseling and crisis
intervention. All services are provided at no charge. In 2006, the Center
helped more than 1,400 Travis County children.
For more information, visit www.centerforchildprotection.org or call 512/472-
1164.
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Through coordinated training, communication, and advocacy, TCCWB seeks
to strengthen the efforts of more than 2000 volunteers appointed by county
commissioners’ courts to work in cooperation with state agency staff who
deliver the Child Protective Services program at the grass-roots level. County
boards contribute 20-30 million dollars annually to meet children’s needs that
cannot be met by the limited state funding of the Texas Department of Family
and Protective Services. Members advocate at the local, state and national
level for children who have no voice.
For more information, visit www.tccwb.org/
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Exchange, America's Service Club, is a group of men and women working
together to make our communities better places to live through programs of
service in Americanism, Community Service, Youth Activities, and its
national project, the Prevention of Child Abuse.
Their major fund raiser, the Zilker Park Kite Festival, is held every year on the
First Sunday in March, with this being their 79th year. Austin Parks and
Recreation Department is their very valuable partner in this event, which a gift
to the children and families of Austin. This year’s kite fest and contest is
March 4th, from 10am until 5 pm. There is no admission fee, and free
parking and shuttle service is provided. For more information visit our website
at: www.zilkerkitefestival.com
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Foster Angels of Central Texas helps improve the lives of foster children of all
ages and was designed to give direct help to foster children in need. Our
mission is to ensure that each child has his or her basic needs met, and to
provide life-enriching and life-enhancing experiences whenever possible.
For more information, visit http://fosterangelsctx.org/
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PARTNERSHIPS FOR AUSTIN CHILDREN IN CRISIS (PACC)
is a non-profit organization whose mission is to cultivate resources and
partnerships that directly benefit abused and neglected children in Austin
through support to CPS caseworkers. www.partnershipsforchildren.org
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A musician with message. That’s how SaulPaul describes himself. His music
is from the soul and his message is from the heart.
Imagine being born into poverty...without a mother or father. Picture growing
up in the ghetto, surrounded by drugs and murder. Visualize being locked in
the Texas state penitentiary but then...See yourself going against all odds and
graduating from the prestigious University of Texas at Austin! This was
SaulPaul's life.
Now he’s a MUSIC PRODUCER. A FILMMAKER. A SPEAKER. And an
AUTHOR. From being featured on MTV in New York to working in Hollywood,
California, this Texas born artist and entrepreneur is determined to live life to
the fullest. And help others do the same. It’s why he founded ReRoute
Outreach, a service organization aimed at impacting teenagers and adults
alike and inspiring them to live their dreams. www.saulpaul.com
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At Any Baby Can®, our mission is to improve the lives of children by
strengthening them and their families through education, therapy
and family support services.
Each year, Any Baby Can® brings help and hope to more than
6,000 of the youngest, sickest and poorest children in our
community and their families.
For more information visit our website at http://www.abcaus.org
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The mission of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
(DFPS) is to protect the unprotected – children, the elderly, and people with
disabilities – from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. It fulfills its mission with
regard to children by regulating child care, investigating allegations of child
abuse and neglect, providing services to children and families in their own
homes, arranging foster care, providing services to children in and aging out
of foster care, and helping children find loving adoptive homes.
For more information visit our website at www.dfps.state.tx.us
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