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There are many organizations that deal with shelter. These organizations help people in need at absolutely no cost and want nothing in return. Kind shelter volunteers throughout Austin spend there time caring to those in need. A couple of the main shelters in Austin are the Austin Children’s Shelter, Front Steps, Foundation for the Homeless, Lifeworks, Housing Authority, and Safe Place. Each of these organizations help in very similar and many different ways.

Austin Children’s Shelter is an emergency homeless shelter offering a safe place for children removed from their dwellings to live because of life-threatening abuse or neglect. For more than twenty years the Austin Children’s Shelter has provided a high quality care and needed services to children.  “Our goal is to reduce the emotional trauma suffered by child victims of abuse and neglect and to lay a foundation of hope for a better future.” The Austin Children’s Shelter helps Children by teaching them necessary boundaries and life long lessons.

Front Steps is a shelter located in the heart of Austin. Not only is Front Steps is a shelter it also provides affordable housing and community education. Front Steps helps people get back on their feet while living at the shelter and then being able to live in affordable community later. Front Steps seeks to end all homelessness. Front Steps believes that “Together we can take the first steps towards ending homelessness in Austin.”

Foundation for the Homeless has been a Shelter helping the homeless Austin community for over twenty years. Foundation for the Homeless offers a breakfast program on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:00 to 6:45 AM at the First United Methodist Church Family Life Center. Every Tuesday you have the opportunity to schedule appointments for haircuts, and doctor’s appointments all for free. Showers are also provided on Tuesdays. This organization also has a shelter for woman and children only. Foundation for the Homeless will you help you if you are in need at absolutely no cost.
Lifeworks is the most comprehensive organization serving to families and the youth in Austin. Lifeworks Shelter is the biggest local provider of free and affordable counseling to anyone in need. This organization has been helping the Austin Community since 1998. Lifework also has a twenty-four-seven hotline for questions and concerns and has eight different shelters in Austin. Lifeworks offers help to more than ten thousand youth and families a year.

Lastly, The Housing Authority of the City of Austin owns almost 2,000 units of public housing in 19 developments throughout Austin. Some development sites have high range apartments, while others have small duplexes in residential neighborhoods. HACA also offers single-family homes throughout the city.  Residents living in public housing have a wide variety of services available to them. Residents Services include everything from providing referrals and resources to assisting residents in becoming economically independent. Residents who apply for public housing units are assigned to units as they become available and do not have the option to choose the HACA community in which they live. Each of these organizations assists with the homeless society. Although it may seem that each organization is just an organization, its not.

 
Each of these Shelters has almost something different to offer. The different organizations have different volunteers, and different conductors. But when it comes down to it each of these shelters make a tremendous difference in homelessness in people’s lives.