WHO WE ARE
Volunteers of America Texas is a ministry of service dedicated to helping people in need rebuild their lives and reach their full potential. Through hundreds of human service programs, including housing and healthcare, we help more than 11,000 people in more than 30 urban and rural communities statewide. For more than a century, we support and empower America’s most vulnerable groups, including veterans, at-risk youth, homeless individuals and families as well as seniors and their caregivers.
OUR SERVICES
Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration
Helping homeless veterans find safe, affordable housing, supporting their individual needs and providing a pathway to success by conducting job training and other supportive services.
Veterans Care Counseling Services
Helping homeless veterans find safe, affordable housing, supporting their individual needs and providing a pathway to success by conducting job training and other supportive services.
Community Re-entry
When individuals are released from prison, their options for employment, decent housing, credit and more are severely limited. In the face of these obstacles, committing crimes may seem like a necessity in order to survive. At Volunteers of America Texas, we believe in second chances, and we are committed to helping these individuals to reduce recidivism.
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Volunteers of America Texas is a longtime provider of Texas Department of Aging & Disability Services (DADS) programs for Home & Community-Based Services (HCS), Texas Home Living (TxHmL) and Deaf Blind with Multiple Disabilities (DBMD). We believe that each among us is unique and valuable, and we encourage growth by honoring personal strengths and choices. Our goal is to help those we support live full and happy lives.
Treatment and Recovery
Our addiction treatment and recovery programs address not only the addiction itself, but also issues like poverty, homelessness and abuse that arise from chemical dependency. We are committed to helping clients gain sure footing in sobriety so that they can reclaim what was lost and become productive members of their families and society.
Youth Prevention Services
Research shows that at-risk youth who participate in prevention programs ultimately make better choices about drugs and alcohol. Volunteers of America Texas works with children of clients in our treatment programs. We also work with at-risk youth through school-based curricula, to educate them about the dangers of substance abuse, improve their communications with parents and empower them to make positive choices when faced with pressure from peers.
Financial Opportunity Center
At the Financial Opportunity Center, Volunteers of America Texas is helping people gain financial stability – for good. By empowering individuals with critical skills and tools using a proven, research-based curriculum, we are changing the face of poverty, one person at a time.
Operation Backpack
The VOA Texas Operation Backpack® program connects thousands of children in need with a new backpack filled with grade-specific school supplies. But it’s not just about paper, pens, or binders – it’s about giving the gift of opportunity in school and life that many children would not receive otherwise. With your help, Operation Backpack® is leveling our nation’s academic playing field.
Affordable Housing
With more than 40 housing communities across the state, Volunteers of America Texas is one of the largest providers of affordable housing for low-income households in the state. We specialize in permanent, supportive housing options for seniors, families, and individuals intellectual and developmental disabilities.
VOA Texas Cares
The Volunteers of America Texas Cares Program provides rental assistance and housing help to residents in Fort Worth, TX who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Help the Homeless
The Volunteers of America Texas Home Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) Program provides rental assistance and housing help to residents in Plano, TX who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Resolana taught me that I can’t control everything, but there is a resolution to everything.”
Tara Browning, a former participant in the Resolana trauma and addiction program run by Volunteers of America Texas at the Dallas County Jail is living her best, most stable life now. But a glance backward and she can clearly see the impact of her turbulent early life.
Volunteers of America Texas inspire self-sufficiency, dignity, and hope by providing critical health and human services to thousands of vulnerable individuals and families across Texas.
