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About Aware Central Texas

Aware Central Texas, formerly known as Family Outreach of Bell County, was started in 1986 as the volunteer arm of Child Protective Services. The purpose of the agency was to assist in the prevention of child abuse and neglect in high-risk families. In 2003, the Texas Legislature eliminated funding for the supervising Family Outreach social workers and consequently, all but 10 of the original 34 centers closed, and the Family Outreach centers in Central Texas diminished from four centers to only one.

In 2006, Aware Central Texas was born. Although the agency is no longer associated with Family Outreach Services, the legacy of compassion, mentorship, and prevention historically provided to Central Texas continues. Aware Central Texas has become a nationally recognized Child Abuse Prevention Center (CAP Center) through the National Exchange Foundation. With this title, Aware obtained accreditation using a research-based model. Aware remains the only agency in the region that is solely focused on prevention and is one of only three CAP Centers in all of Texas.

Aware believes that education is the key to prevention, which is the way to diminish the astronomically high rate of child abuse/neglect and family violence in our area.

About Cove House

Cove House Emergency Homeless Shelter, Inc. (Cove House) is to be a loving and compassionate place where the Gospel of Jesus Christ is boldly and shamelessly proclaimed. Our ambition is for everyone in Copperas Cove and the surrounding area to have sufficient shelter, food, employment, clothing and healthcare. We desire for Cove House to be a place where an individual can have their health, educational, and emotional needs met all done in the name of Jesus Christ for the glory of God.

About Cove Refuge

The Refuge Corporation is a faith base non-profit community service organization with various programs to meet basic human needs on a temporary and/or emergency basis. The Christian House of Prayer Ministries is our parent organization. Refuge is an agency of the United Way of Greater Fort Hood and Combine Federal Campaign. We are partner with Central Texas Homeless Coalition, Bell County Community Coalition, Central Texas Food Bank and Feeding America.

About Department of Defense (DoD) Safe Hotline

Safe Helpline is the Department of Defense’s (DoD) sole hotline for members of the DoD community affected by sexual assault. Safe Helpline is a completely anonymous, confidential, 24/7, specialized service—providing help and information anytime, anywhere. A Safe Helpline user can access one-on-one support, peer-to-peer support, information, resources, and self-care exercises to aid in their recovery. Since 2011, Safe Helpline has provided support and resources to thousands of members of the DoD community.

Safe Helpline is available worldwide and is operated by RAINN, a national anti-sexual violence organization, through a contract with the DoD Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (DoD SAPRO). Safe Helpline works closely with DoD SAPRO, each of the Military Department SAPR offices and the installation-based SAPR programs to ensure that all Safe Helpline users receive the information, support and care they need at every stage of their healing process. To ensure the anonymity of Safe Helpline services, no personally identifiable information about a user will be shared with the DoD or the user’s chain of command. To learn more, visit the How It Works page.

Safe Helpline staff receive highly specialized training on topics including the neurobiology of trauma, working with survivors in the military, as well as the unique needs of male survivors and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) community. They are available to listen to a visitor’s needs and concerns, discuss long- and short-term safety planning, provide information about specialized resources and, when they are ready, connect the visitor with local resources such as a Sexual Assault Response Coordinator (SARC) or SAPR Victim Advocate (VA).

About Families In Crisis

Families In Crisis, Inc. (FIC) was established in 1980 to assist and empower victims of family violence and sexual assault in Bell, Coryell, and Hamilton counties in Texas, including Fort Hood, the largest U.S. military installation. What started as a grassroots effort by volunteers has since evolved into a multi-program, comprehensive social service organization that continues to serve survivors of family/sexual violence as well as veterans and their families and the homeless and at-risk for homelessness populations. Services include: emergency safe shelter for survivors of family/sexual violence; transitional and permanent housing assistance; crisis intervention counseling; case management; 24-hour hotline; hospital accompaniment; provision of food, clothing, personal care items, and household items; support groups; life skills classes, and information and referral. FIC’s services, which are confidential and free of charge, promote stabilization and self-sufficiency through a goal-oriented approach, helping clients become more effective as individuals, as parents, and as citizens.

The overwhelming need for a shelter for battered women and their children in the Killeen/Fort Hood area had been recognized for a number of years. In the summer of 1980, an organizational meeting led to the formation of FIC. Through funds from the City of Killeen’s Community Development Block Grant and the Attorney General’s Office, the agency was able to begin offering shelter services in 1981. The current Killeen shelter facility was purchased in 1983, offering 65 beds for men, women, and children who had experienced family violence. That same year, FIC merged with the Central Texas Rape Crisis Center. By 2000, FIC expanded existing services to rural and underserved populations by opening three Outreach offices (in addition to the Killeen office) in Temple, Gatesville, and Hamilton. Through a partnership with Leadership Temple, a second 16-bed shelter was opened in August 2007, which was developed completely through donations and is now fully funded.

Since 2002, FIC has provided rental assistance to survivors of family/sexual violence through the City of Killeen’s HOME Program and through the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs’ Emergency Shelter Grant Program. In 2009, FIC received funds through the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program, allowing the agency to provide supportive services and rental assistance to additional populations, including veterans, youth aging out of foster care, and the general homeless and at-risk for homelessness populations. These programs continued through the acquisition of funds from the Texas Veterans Commission and the Supportive Services for Veteran Families. In 2012, FIC realized a long-term goal and began offering HUD-funded transitional housing at scattered site locations in Temple and Killeen, providing transitional housing and supportive services through 50 agency-leased or owned units.

In 2013, the City of Killeen Community Development Division, recognizing FIC’s significant growth and strong organizational capacity, approached the agency about further expanding its programs to include the provision of shelter for the homeless population in Killeen and encouraged FIC to apply for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to facilitate the endeavor. FIC then began a $1.4M project to renovate an existing building already owned by FIC to provide shelter to the general homeless population. Renovations included separate open-bay sleeping areas for men and women, a commercial-grade kitchen, dining area, communal shower and toilet facilities, system upgrades, and replacement of fixtures. The facility opened its doors December 23, 2015.

In 2015, FIC provided 27,338 shelter nights to 846 clients. Another 787 clients received supportive services through the agency’s outreach program, and nearly 500 clients received assistance through FIC’s housing programs.

About Hope Alliance

Mission & Vision

To assist those whose lives have been affected by family and sexual violence by providing safety, services, and developing partnerships that lead to hope, healing, and prevention.

To provide hope of future generations through prevention and be a leader in saving and transforming lives affected by family and sexual violence.

Beliefs

Hope Alliance operates under the belief that physical, sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse of one human being by another is unacceptable. We believe that all abuse diminishes or prohibits the full expression of life and growth that is every person's right.

About Men Can Stop Rape

Mission

To mobilize men to use their strength for creating cultures free from violence, especially men's violence against women.

Vision

To institutionalize primary prevention of men’s violence against women through sustained initiatives that generate positive, measurable outcomes in populations throughout the world.

About National Sexual Violence Resource Center

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) is the leading nonprofit in providing information and tools to prevent and respond to sexual violence. NSVRC translates research and trends into best practices that help individuals, communities and service providers achieve real and lasting change. NSVRC also works with the media to promote informed reporting. Every April, NSVRC leads Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), a campaign to educate and engage the public in addressing this widespread issue. NSVRC is also one of the three founding organizations of RALIANCE, a national, collaborative initiative dedicated to ending sexual violence in one generation.

About RAINN

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization. RAINN created and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline (800.656.HOPE, online.rainn.org y rainn.org/es) in partnership with more than 1,000 local sexual assault service providers across the country and operates the DoD Safe Helpline for the Department of Defense. RAINN also carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help survivors, and ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.

About Teach Them To Love Outreach

Class is facilitated by Degreed Professionals and Community Healthcare workers that are Certified By Texas Department of State Health Services.
Utilizes the SAMHSA NREPP Approved Evidence-Based Practice Anger Management Curriculum. Certificates of Completion received upon completion of Class

• Individual Counseling and Education
• Group Session requires a minimum of three or more participants
• Anger Management Program (group session)
• 4- hour and 8-hour sessions
• Family Crisis Chaplain Counseling; Anger Management Counseling and Couples Counseling

Teach them to Love’s goal is to ensure that clients and their families’ needs are met in the following areas:

• Marriage, Partner & Couples Counseling
• Individual and group counseling
• Grief Counseling
• Parent Coaching
• Co-Parenting
• Anger Management
• Child Abuse Prevention
• Consultation/Coaching

About Texas Advocacy Project

Texas Advocacy Project's mission is to end dating and domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in Texas. Texas Advocacy Project empowers survivors through free legal services and access to the justice system, and advances prevention through public outreach and education. Our attorneys, staff, volunteers, and Board of Directors are committed to advancing our mission that all Texans live free from abuse.

Established in 1982 by a group of young lawyers, Texas Advocacy Project (TAP) started as a legal hotline. In the decades since, TAP has evolved into an expert on legal issues affecting survivors. Today, our comprehensive approach includes both solutions and prevention and provides a range of legal and advocacy services proven to break the cycle of violence and get victims to safety. We provide effective legal solutions like protective orders, termination of abusers' parental rights, child-custody modifications, as well as assistance with civil issues that affect abuse cases such as housing, employment, education and financial empowerment. Texas Advocacy Project serves ALL Texans without regard to socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, immigration status, or any other distinction. TAP extends its impact through a network of outreach and trainings to the public and those that work with survivors including: domestic violence and sexual assault shelters, judges, prosecutors, crime victim services personnel, legal advocates, medical professionals, universities, and students.

About SAPRO

SAPRO is the organization responsible for the oversight of Department of Defense (DoD) sexual assault policy. The Department of Defense is committed to the prevention of sexual assault. The Department has implemented a comprehensive policy to ensure the safety, dignity and well being of all members of the Armed Forces. Our men and women serving throughout the world deserve nothing less, and their leaders — both Military and civilian — are committed to maintaining a workplace environment that rejects sexual assault and reinforces prevention, response and accountability.

DoD-wide Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Mission Statement: The Department of Defense prevents and responds to the crime of sexual assault in order to enable military readiness and reduce -- with a goal to eliminate -- sexual assault from the military.

As the DoD continues its efforts to prevent sexual assault and support victims who make the difficult decision to report, SAPRO is committed to keeping the public informed of DoD SAPR activity. For an overview of the latest DoD SAPR activity, review the SAPRO Overview Fact Sheet.

How does the Department meet its mission? The Department acts on its SAPR Strategic Plan, originally issued in May 2013, and amended in January 2015, and the Services are currently implementing the Plan's initiatives along each line of effort. The SAPR Strategic Plan creates unity of effort and synchronizes the Services as the Department works to eliminate sexual assault.

This website provides access to the SAPR Strategic Plan, guidance, speeches & briefings and other information for victims of sexual assault, the individuals they turn to, unit commanders, first responders and others dealing with this sensitive issue. This site addresses confidentiality, reporting procedures and other elements of DoD's sexual assault policy as well as resources, safety tips, and links to related websites.