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Family Services provides children and families with tools and skills to improve their lives and become self-sufficient.

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WHO WE ARE
Family Services of Greater Houston (Family Services), a United Way agency, is one of Houston’s oldest nonprofit 501 (c)(3) social service organizations.
WHO WE SERVE
Family Services mainly serves low-income children, families and adults. Our clients are of all ages and ethnicities (60% Hispanic, 24% African American, 14% Caucasian and 2% Asian and other).

WHAT WE DO
  • Case Management – since the mid-1930s
  • Counseling – since the mid-1930s
  • Parent Education – since the 1960s
  • Family Reintegration – since the 1990s
  • Marriage Education – since 2006
  • Substance Abuse Services and Education – since the 1970s
  • Employee Assistance Programs – since the 1980s
ACCREDITATIONS & AWARDS
  • Accredited by The Joint Commission for 12 years
  • 2009 Most Outstanding New Program from Ways to Work national
  • 2007 Silver ADDY Award for design of agency’s 2006 Annual Report
  • 2006 Award of Excellence for Best Practices from the Mental Health Corporations of America (also received in 2005, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
  • 2004 Award for Excellence from the Better Business Bureau
  • 2001 Governor’s Criminal Justice Award for Best Family Program in Texas for Family Services’ Reintegration Program
  • Family Services’ substance abuse prevention and education program received the: 2005 Leadership in Action Award from Leadership Houston; 2001 Prevention Program Award from the Mental Health Association of Greater Houston; 2000 La Promesa Program by the National Children’s Latino Institute; and 1999 Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
dataTRAQ
Family Services of Greater Houston developed dataTRAQ, a web-based data management system, to track client records and staff activities. To learn more about how dataTRAQ might work for your agency, click here.

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