Family Service Center of Galveston County, Texas

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The Family Service Center of Galveston County, Texas

The Clients

FSC serves people from the youngest to the oldest without limitation. Most of the agency's clients are families and youth who are struggling with a variety of adjustment issues and crises. During the most recent quarter, the agency served 481 clients or roughly 1,924 for the 2005 calendar year.

Referral Sources

Often a person calls or comes into the agency for assistance without a referral. Sometimes they are encouraged to come by the police or judges who wish to find an alternative for persons not requiring adjudication. The agency sees youth from Seaborne Youth Corp, the Resource and Crisis Center, the Advocacy Center for Children, the Juvenile Justice Center, The Children's Center, area physicians, clergy, and school personnel. In addition, FSC serves as an employee assistance program for several area business and insurance networks.

The Communities Served

Family Service Center serves all of Galveston County with all services from offices on the Island and in Texas City. The agency strives to work closely with the school districts within the county. STAR program services for at-risk youth are also available in Chambers and Liberty Counties in offices in Baytown, Liberty, and Cleveland.

Funding and Supporters

Many sources support programs at Family Service Center. These include:
The United Way of Galveston
Mainland Communities United Way
TX Dept. of Families & Protective Services
TX Governor's Division of Criminal Justice
Galveston Co. Department of Juvenile Justice
The Kempner Fund
Mildred Yount Manion Charitable Foundation
Valero Refining - Valero Volunteers

Service Fees
No one is denied services due to an inability to pay service fees.

Moving Forward

Family Service Center strives to be a center of excellence in achieving its mission of strengthening families and the community, which shapes the opportunities and limitations that families face. Towards this end, the Council on Accreditation will accredit the Center in 2006, meeting all standards that they promote.

The Center operates with a highly qualified staff of mental health professionals designed to help the cross-section of our community with a wide range of concerns. The agency seeks to remain accessible, affordable, and available to all persons, wealthy or poor.

The Center is working to add supportive services that will better prevent the advent of family problems, conflict, delinquency, and abuse. This innovative initiative is designed to build the skills of youth and families for goal achievement, problem solving, team building, self-help and mutual aid. The Center seeks to have a balance of treatment programs and prevention activities.

Finally, Family Service Center is working towards a more stable financial base. The nonprofit world is often uncertain, but excellence in planning and development requires a degree of financial certainty and ability to invest in innovations. Towards this end, the Center seeks to build a reserve fund to support future development.