Basic Needs - Food/Energy/House/Transportation

The ACC Health Sciences Counselor is available to assist you with challenges you may face in your life that are affecting your educational success. The Health Sciences Counselor is sensitive to the

Name: Carolyn Smith	E-mail Address: carts9697@sbcglobal.net
Company: All Saints Church
Phone Numbers	Address
Business: 512.476.3589	209 West 27th Street
Work: 469.7972	Austin, TX 78705
About: Many members of the congregation participate by contributing to the purchase of HEB gift cards and by donating toiletries, Christmas cards, stamps, and other items. Another quartet of All Saints' members prepares and brings breakfast tacos every Tuesday around 7:30 a.m. Currently members of the congregation interview individuals on Tuesdays, beginning at 9:00 a.m. and ending when all resources are depleted. Congregational giving makes it possible to purchase discounted Capital Metro bus passes and HEB gift cards (which are used for a small payment on food or anything sold at HEB except tobacco, alcohol and the lottery) and for financial assistance. Financial assistance (seldom more than $25 and sometimes less) is given for rent, ID's, birth certificates, prescriptions not available at HEB, out-of-town transportation, glasses, textbooks and work boots.

Company: Baptist Community Center	Website: www.bccmission.org
Phone Numbers	Address
Business: 512.472.7592	2000 E 2nd St
	Austin, TX 78702
About: The BCCM family assistance program runs year-round and is open to clients citywide. This program assists clients with food and financial assistance that includes help with untilities, rent and medication as well as help getting picture IDs, driver’s licenses, birth certificates and other miscellaneous items. The BCCM bread, pastry items & vegetable ministry is open year-round and open to clients city-side. This free distribution of breads, sweets and vegetables draws about 150 families each day. Every Wednesday, the BCCM opens its sales room to offer good, gently worn clothing and other miscellaneous items at a reasonable cost. Twice a year, the BCCM teams up with local church classes to offer shoes to the children who frequent the BCCM. Not only to the children receive shoes for their feet, but they also receive a Bible to guide their heart at well! Thanksgiving Dinner each year is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and feeds about 650 people annually. The Preschool & Youth Christmas Party includes a hamburger meal and stockings & fruit for the kids who have been involved at the center throughout the year. The week of Easter, the BCCM hosts lunch each day with music and Bible Study.

Company: Travis County Family Support Services	E-mail: contact_hhs@co.travis.tx.us
	Website: www.co.travis.tx.us/health_human_services/ family_support_services/default.asp
Phone Numbers	Address
Business: 512.854.4120	Palm Square Building 100 N. IH 35, Suite 1000
	Austin, TX
About: The Family Support Services division of HHS&VS is the largest provider of basic needs emergency assistance (rent/mortgage, vehicle emissions-related repairs, utilities, food vouchers, groceries, burials, transportation, prescriptions, clothes and blankets) in Travis County. Services are provided at 7 community centers - two of the sites are located in central Austin while the other five serve the rural areas of the County. The five rural sites provide eligibility screening for the Medical Assistance Program (MAP) and offer many co-located services such as clinics, WIC offices, senior lunch, and computers to support employment searches. All sites offer case management services. If you have questions or need additional information about Family Support Services, you'll get the best information by contacting us directly.