El Corazón de Tejas-Central Texas Chapter of REFORMA

EDUCATION/LIBRARIES

 Name: Austin Public Library New Immigrants Project

Address/Phone:

  * Faulk Central Library, 2nd Floor, 800 Guadalupe St.
     Austin, TX 78701      512-974-7300

  * Little Walnut Creek Branch, 835 W. Rundberg Ln.
     Austin, TX 78758      512-836-8975

  * Terrazas Branch, 1105 E. César Chávez St.
     Austin, TX 78702   512-472-7312 Se habla español.

Languages: English/Spanish

Web: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/library/newip.htm

Services: Provides library information and services to Austin's new, primarily non-English-speaking, immigrant population, including audio-visual centers for the study of English and citizenship.

EMPLOYMENT

 Name: American Friends Service Committee - Texas, Arkansas & Oklahoma (AFSC-TAO)

Address: 304 East 6th St., Suite 3, Austin, TX 78702

Phone: 512/474-2399

Web: http://www.afsc.org/cro/austin_overview.htm

E-mail: tao@afsc.org

Services: Democratizing the Global Economy, organizes and educate the U.S. population on the issues of the global economy, as well as to propose alternatives and build cross border alliances.

Name: Texas Workforce Commission, Labor Law Department

Phone: 1-800-832-9243

Web: http://www.twc.state.tx.us/ui/lablaw/lablaw.html

Services: Provides information and forms (in English and Spanish) for employees to make a wage claim if they have not bee justly compensated.

HEALTH/SOCIAL SERVICES

 Name: Arte Sana

Languages: English/Spanish

Web: http://www.geocities.com/artesanando/

E-mail: artesana@yahoo.com

Services: Arte Sana (art heals) is a nonprofit organization comprised of sexual assault and intimate partner advocates, survivors, artists, and musicians who believe in the intrinsic healing power of art and culture. Arte Sana believes that violence education programs and services must be culturally competent and linguistically appropriate.

Name: Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services

Address: 2100 E. St. Elmo Rd. (main administrative office)

Phone: 512/972-5400

Languages: English/Spanish

Web: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/health/

Services: Vital records services, Community Health Clinics, Environmental and Consumer Health Protection, Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention, Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, Family Health, Health Initiatives, Public Health Nursing, TXCare, and WIC, Immunizations, Infectious Disease Prevention - Medical, Childcare, Job Training, and Homeless Assistance - Programs, Neighborhood Centers, Graffiti Abatement, Mobile Health Van, Youth Programs, Town Lake Animal Center.

Name: El Buen Samaritano

Address: 1919 South First Street, Austin, Texas, 78704

Phone: 512/441-7977

Languages: English/Spanish

Web: http://www.elbuen.org/index.html
Services: El Buen Samaritano (EBS) is Austin's only non-profit provider of health care, leadership development, and self-sufficiency education for working-poor, Spanish-speaking families. Health services include family, pediatric, prenatal and women's, immunizations and screenings, childbirth education classes, social work services. Outreach services include promotores, Hispanic promotion, informative publications. Primary need services include  food pantry, clothing closet. Education services include ESL classes, citizenship classes, job assistance, literacy classes in Spanish, GED classes in Spanish.

Name: insure-a-kid

Address: 1213 North IH-35, Austin, Texas 78702

Phone: 512/927-2677

Languages:

Web: http://www.insureakid.org/Home.asp

E-mail: insureakid@seton.org

Services: insure-a-kid is a community-wide partnership to increase the number of children with health insurance in Travis and Williamson counties through CHIP and Medicaid.

Name: The Lilith Fund

Address: P.O. Box 200662 Austin, TX 78720-0662

Phone: 1-877-659-4304

Web: http://www.lilithfund.org/

E-mail: info@lilithfund.org

Services: Provides direct financial assistance to low income women and girls who wish to terminate an unwanted pregnancy;

provides free contraceptives to low-income women that have been assisted by the Lilith Fund.

Name: Manos de Cristo

Address: 1200 Willow St., Austin, TX 78702

Phone: 512/477-7454

Languages: English/Spanish

Web: http://www.main.org/manos/

E-mail: manos@unidial.com

Services: Serves the working poor, immigrants, unemployed, disabled and homeless. Has clothing and food panty. Provides ESL and citizenship classes.

Name: Manos de Cristo Dental Clinic

Address: 1201 E. César Chávez

Austin, TX 78702

Phone: 512/477-2319

Languages: English/Spanish

Web: http://www.main.org/manos/dental.htm

E-mail: manos@unidial.com

Services: Dental services for low-income individuals in Austin without dental insurance.

Name: Texas Alliance for Human Needs (TAHN), Basic Money Management Program

Address: E. 12th St.

Phone: 1-512-474-5019

Web: http://www.texasneeds.org/frames.shtml?projects

E-mail: texasalliance@swbell.net

Services: Basic money management seminars providing financial education to low-income communities with the goal of the programs becoming a constant and established pattern within the communities themselves.

 HOUSING

 Name: Austin Tenants' Council

Address: 1619 E. César Chávez, Austin, TX 78702

Phone: 512/474-1961

Web: http://www.housing-rights.org

Services: Fair Housing Program, telephone and in-house counseling, mediation services, lease forms, Tenant Information Network.

Name: Capital Area Housing Finance Corporation
Address: 2512 IH 35 South, Suite 115, Austin, TX 78704
Phone: 512/916-6013
Web: http://www.cahfc.org
Email: jeshaw@capco.state.tx.us

Services: Assists in meeting the housing needs of low and moderate income families in Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Llano and Williamson Counties, as well as the City of San Marcos. Provides both single family home ownership and multi-family rental opportunities to persons meeting certain income requirements. Provides down payment assistance programs for first time homebuyers. Finances the construction or acquisition of multifamily communities to provide below market rate rental opportunities. 

IMMIGRATION LAW / OTHER LEGAL SERVICES

 Name: Consulate of Mexico

Address: 200 East 6^th St. , Ste. 200, Austin, TX 78701

Phone: 512/478-2866

Languages: Spanish/English

Web: http://www.onr.com/consulmx/

Services for Mexican Citizens: Issues matriculas consulares, passports, birth certificates, military identification, provides notary services, and menaje de casa.

Services for Others: Issues visas, provides information on business and travel in Mexico.

Name: Immigration, Counseling and Outreach Services

Address: 5555 N. Lamar, K-100

Phone: 512/467-9816

Languages: English, Spanish, Vietnamese

Services: Family-based petitions, permanent residency, citizenship.

Name: Office of Immigrant Concerns, Diocese of Austin

Address: 1605-A East 7th St., Austin, TX 78702

Phone: (512) 494-0148

Languages: English/Spanish

Web: http://www.austindiocese.org/

E-mail: immigrant-concerns@austindiocese.org

Services: Consultations; INS documentation preparation; document translation (word-per-word and /or abstracts), fingerprints for FBI background checks, photograph services; legal case management; advocacy and liaison between clients and INS officers; representation before the Executive Office of Immigration Review; public education regarding changes in immigration laws.

Name: Political Asylum Project of Austin (PAPA)

Address: 1715 E. 6^th St., Austin, TX 78702

Phone: 512/478/0546

Languages: English/Spanish

Web: http://www.main.org/papa

E-mail: nidiapapa@yahoo.com

Services: Legal services for immigrants including Asylum Seeker Project, Program Representing Immigrant Survivors of Abuse (PRISA), Detention and Education Project (DERP), Family Based Immigration, Adjustment & Citizenship Program, Special Immigration Relief Program, Immigrant Support Services Program.

Name: Lawyer Referral Service for the Central Texas Area

Phone: 512/472-8303

Languages: English, Spanish

Web: http://www.austinlrs.com/

E-mail: Jeannie@travisbar.com

Services: Refers callers to lawyers in good standing for legal assistance.

Name: Women’s Advocacy Project

Address: P.O. Box 833

Phone: 512/476-5377

Web: http://www.women-law.org

E-mail: wapinc@usa.net

Services: Provides counsel to women in Texas about their legal rights. Hotlines:

1-800-777-FAIR   Family Law Hotline (Spanish available)

1-800-374-HOPE Family Violence Legal line (Spanish available)

1-888-325-SAFE  Emergency Advocacy Hotline

512-476-5377 ext 181 Breast Cancer Legal line

POLICE/SAFETY

 Name: Austin Police Department, Office of the Community Liaison

Phone: 512/459-1877

Immigrant Hotline: 512/974-8521 (M/W/F, 1-6pm)

Languages: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, other

Web: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/police/community.htm

Services: Immigrant Outreach, "Tu Voz" Immigrant Hotline, Asian Outreach, Blackshear Neighborhood outreach, Chaplain Program, Chief's Forum, Community Policing Journal, Faith Community Network, Seniors and Law Enforcement Together, Traffic Safety Hotline, Volunteers in Policing, Youth Diversion Program.

Name: SafePlace

Address: 1515 A Grove Boulevard, Austin, TX              

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 19454, Austin, TX 78760

Phone: 512-267-SAFE (512-267-7233)

    512-927-9616 TTY for Deaf callers

Languages:

Web: http://www.austin-safeplace.org

E-mail: info@austin-safeplace.org

Services: Domestic violence assistance, Community Education, Collaboration, Advocacy, School-Based Services, Disability, Crisis Services.

Name: Saheli

Address: P.O. Box 3665, Austin, TX 78764

Phone: 512/703-8745

Languages: South Asian languages

Web: http://www.main.org/saheli

E-mail: saheli@usa.net

Services: To help victims and survivors of domestic violence and empower them to make choices for a life free of abuse. Culture-sensitive peer counseling, referrals, legal advocacy, crisis assistance, outreach, multilingual services, Asian group sessions, life skills classes.

FURTHER REFERRAL SOURCES

 List of Free Legal Services Providers

http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/probono/freelglchtTX.htm

United States  Executive Office of Immigration Review

Provides a list of non-profit agencies in Texas that provide assistance in immigration law, and which are accredited to represent persons before the Executive Office of Immigration Review.

Directory of Legal Services to the Poor

http://www.lsnt.org/nav/toc.asp

Texas Lawyers Care, State Bar of Texas

Provides information on all types of legal services available to low-income individuals in the state of Texas.

Texas Information and Referral Network

http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/tirn/tirnhome.htm

https://www.helpintexas.com/welcome.asp

Provides the development, coordination, and implementation of a statewide information and referral network, as designated by the Texas Legislature.

First Call for Help

http://www.irissoft.com/fcfh/

United Way, Capital Area

Online referral database for all types of assistance in the Austin area.