SERVICE PROVIDERS
Emergency Response and Survivor Advocacy
Unbound Waco - https://www.unboundwaco.org/about-unbound
Unbound Waco offers comprehensive case management services including crisis intervention; criminal justice system-based advocacy, financial assistance, social service advocacy; transportation services; and assistance with writing victimization statements for law enforcement. Unbound Waco also provides referrals to legal services, mental health treatment, substance abuse treatment, residential programs, and medical care and other health-related services.
Advocacy Center for Crime Victims and Children (ACCVC) - https://advocacycntr.org/
The mission of the Advocacy Center for Crime Victims and Children is to promote healing of children and crime victims through advocacy, collaboration, prevention, and treatment. The Advocacy Center (ACCVC) provides crisis intervention, case management, SANE exams, and trauma informed counseling for Human Trafficking victims
Community Partners for Ongoing Case Management
CASA of McLennan County - https://www.cityofmexia.com/city-services/departments/police-department
When children enter the foster care system because their home is no longer safe, a judge may appoint a committed volunteer to help them. That volunteer is called a Court Appointed Special Advocate®, or CASA.
Central Texas Youth Services - https://www.centraltexasyouthservices.com/
The Central Texas Youth Services provide services that include crisis intervention, case management, shelter referrals, counseling, job readiness training, family reunification, and transitional housing. This agency serves minors. CTYS is located on 204 East St, Belton, TX.
Jesus Said Love - https://jesussaidlove.com/
Jesus Said Love goes into strip clubs across Texas, builds relationships with commercial sex exploits without strings attached, and connects them to community and spiritual resources. JSL provides holistic training programs for survivors of sex exploitation and trafficking as well as providing a work therapy program which includes microloans, crisis care, case management, spiritual development and group support. JLC is open for drop in services Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.
Methodist Children’s Home Family Outreach - https://www.mch.org/family-outreach-leadership/
MCH Family Outreach offers family-based services designed to strengthen families through in-home case management, parent education, caregiver empowerment groups and community partnerships.
Klaras Center for Families HOTRMHMR - https://www.hotrmhmr.org/services/child-and-adolescent-mental-health/klaras-center-for-families
The Heart of Texas Region MHMR Center strives to deliver accessible and responsive support services to individuals and families coping with mental illness, intellectual and developmental disabilities, developmental delays, and emotional conflict.
The Salvation Army - https://www.salvationarmytexas.org/waco/
The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.
BACA / Bikers Against Child Abuse - https://bacaworld.org/
Bikers Against Child Abuse, Inc. (B.A.C.A.) 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 work in conjunction with local and state officials who are already in place to protect children.
The Cove - http://www.thecovewaco.org/
The Cove is a teen nurturing center designed to provide a safe space for students experiencing homelessness to access the resources they need to thrive.
Family Abuse Center - https://www.familyabusecenter.org/
The Family Abuse Center offers a free, safe and confidential place for adults and children to begin to experience life without violence. Our professional staff listen, advocate and provide moral support to all those seeking our services. We offer counseling, transportation help, job and life skills education, and more.
Waco ISD Homeless Outreach - https://www.wacoisd.org/Page/4131
Waco ISD Homeless Outreach provides support to WISD Families and Youth experiencing homelessness.
HOTHTC Homeless Coalition - https://www.heartoftexashomeless.org/
The HOTHC was formed to promote, support, and develop rehabilitation services, resources, and treatment programs for persons who are homeless in the Heart of Texas Region.
Tri-Cities Ministries: https://tricitiesministries.org/
Tri-Cities Ministries is an interdenominational network of churches who join together in Christian love to care for our communities.
Community Partners for Health Services
STARRY Counseling Services - https://www.starry.org/
STARRY Mission Statement: We nurture children, strengthen families, and restore hope through counseling, foster care, and adoption.
Freedom Reins Counseling: https://freedomreinscounseling.com/
Our vision is to help the whole person. Whether the client be a child, teen, or adult, we strive to help individuals form happy well-balanced lives.
Get Out of Your Head Counseling: https://www.getoutofyourheadtherapy.com/
Get out of your head...and get into online therapy! We offer online therapy services to anyone residing in Texas. Whether it's your past, your relationships, your career, your family, your financial situation, your work-life balance, your body image or your future, counseling & therapy can help you find your way.
Cenikor Hospital - https://www.cenikor.org/
MIssion Statement: Cenikor. A Place for Change. Providing a Foundation for Better Health and Better Lives. We are committed to helping people with alcohol and drug addiction as well as behavioral health issues through a full continuum of care. Cenikor offers a variety of programs to treat drug addiction
Care Net - https://pregnancycare.org/
Our Promise:
Compassionate Care — Providing a caring, confidential atmosphere to discuss pregnancy options and sexual health, while respecting each individual.
Practical Support — Providing for individual, physical and practical needs.
Cedar Crest Hospital - https://www.cedarcresthospital.com/
Our Mission is to set ourselves apart from other mental health facilities by offering individualized, superior care that improves the quality of life for our patients and provides a reliable resource for the community.
Waco Center for Youth - https://hhs.texas.gov/services/mental-health-substance-use/state-hospitals/waco-center-youth
The Center provides psychiatric residential treatment to adolescents with severe emotional or behavioral disorders and who have experienced serious dysfunction.
The Refuge for DMST - https://therefugeaustin.org/
Mission: To provide trauma-informed, long-term restorative community with ongoing services for girls, minors through 19, who have been exploited through sex trafficking.
Ascension Providence Hospital: https://healthcare.ascension.org/locations/texas/txwac/waco-ascension-providence
Ascension Providence Hospital in Waco, Texas, is a full-service hospital with 24/7 emergency care. We deliver care for life-threatening injuries and illnesses.
Baylor Scott & White Health: https://www.bswhealth.com/locations/hillcrest
Baylor Scott & White Health offers expertise and treatment options conveniently located in Waco at our Hillcrest hospital.
McLennan County Indigent Health Care: https://co.mclennan.tx.us/291/Indigent-Health-Care
Chapter 61, Health and Safety Code, passed by the 1st Called Special Session of the Texas 69th Legislature (1985), is intended to ensure that needy Texas residents, who do not qualify for other state or federal health care assistance programs, receive health care services through the County Indigent Health Care Program (CIHCP).
Community partners for Legal Aid
American Gateways - https://www.americangateways.org/
American Gateways Mission Statement: To champion the dignity and human rights of immigrants, refugees and survivors of persecution, torture, conflict and human trafficking through exceptional immigration legal services at no or low cost, education and advocacy.
Lone Star Legal - https://lonestarlegal.blog/offices/waco-office/
Lone Star Legal Aid’s mission is to protect and advance the civil legal rights of the millions of Texans living in poverty in its 76 county service area by providing free advocacy, legal representation, and community education that ensures equal access to justice.
Bussard Law Firm - https://www.bussardlawfirm.com/
Bussard Law is the only firm in Texas focused exclusively on representing victims of human sex trafficking. The firm is the first in Texas to file a civil suit based on state law, Liability for Human Trafficking Chapter 98.
Buice Law Firm
Elizabeth Buice has practiced law in Waco, TX, since 2011.
Practice Areas: Criminal, Family, Juvenile, Mediation
Callahan & King Law Firm - http://www.callahankinglaw.com/
Robert Callahan and Chris King are skilled attorneys in criminal defense, family law and general litigation practicing in Waco, Texas and the surrounding areas.
Community partners for Job Training
Christian Women’s & Men’s Job Corp - https://cwjcwaco.org/
CWJC and CMJC exist to empower men and women to experience spiritual, personal, and professional success. Success can appear in many forms: Earning a living wage, becoming restored spiritually, healing broken relationships, creating healthy generational traditions, and/or giving back in her community.
Texas Workforce Commission - https://www.hotworkforce.com/
Texas Workforce Commission Mission Statement: To provide a well-trained workforce for employers in order to ensure the economic growth of the region.