AIDS Services of Austin responds to the HIV needs of the Austin area by providing services that enhance the health and well being of individuals and the community in the face of an evolving epidemic. ASA is a leading provider of prevention and social services for those affected by HIV/AIDS. www.ASAustin.org

American Botanical Council

American Botanical Council (ABC) is a nonprofit, member-supported organization whose mission is to provide education using science-based and traditional information to promote responsible use of herbal medicine — serving the public, researchers, educators, healthcare professionals, industry, and media. www.herbalgram.org

American Cancer Society, High Plains Division, Inc.
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
www.cancer.org

American Heart Association

The mission of the American Heart Association is to reduce death and disability from cardiovascular disease and stroke. www.americanheart.org

The mission of the American Lung Association is to fight lung disease and promote lung health through research, education, community programs and advocacy. Our local focus is asthma education for children, their caregivers and physicians, COPD education for patients and health professionals, tobacco cessation, and clean air advocacy. www.texaslung.org

Any Baby Can Child and Family Resource Center

Any Baby Can believes that all children can reach their potential through education, therapy and family support services. We serve our community's youngest, sickest and poorest children and their families. ABC provides home visitation, parenting education, family literacy, Early Childhood Intervention, medical case management, counseling and Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Program. www.abcaus.org

The Arc of Capital Area

The Arc promotes independence and choice by providing individualized services to adults and children with developmental disabilities. We offer respite care, family support, guardianship, juvenile justice services, case management, art classes, academic coaching, social opportunities, training, parent support coops and information and referral. www.arcofthecapitalarea.org

Austin Child Guidance Center

Austin Child Guidance Center offers mental health treatment for children through early intervention, diagnosis and treatment.  Our team of psychiatrists, psychologists, and therapists provides:  individual, group and family therapy; psychiatric and psychological examinations.  Issues treated include:  AD&HD; Conduct Disorder; school phobia/truancy; depression; Pervasive Developmental Disorder; suicidal ideation; juvenile crime; and, risk-taking behaviors. www.austinchildguidance.org

Austin Children's Shelter

The Austin Children's Shelter has provided emergency shelter, high quality care and hope for the future to abandoned, abused and neglected children since 1984. The Shelter provides critical services to children from birth to 17 years old and lays a foundation of hope for the future of the children in its care. www.austinchildrenshelter.org

Austin LifeCare is a faith based non-profit organization dedicated to providing compassionate and trustworthy service to the Austin community by offering  positive solutions to the challenges surrounding unplanned pregnancies through prevention education and practical and emotional support. www.austinlifecare.com

AustinLifeGuard
The purpose of Austin LifeGuard Character and Sexuality Education is to empower teens in the Austin area with accurate information and practical tools to help them make healthy decisions, build strong relationships, and fully experience the benefits of saving sex for marriage. www.austinlifeguard.com

Austin Recovery

Provide effective, affordable & compassionate chemical dependency treatment to the poor and working families of Central Texas. www.austinrecovery.org

Austin Smiles

Austin Smiles provides reconstructive plastic surgery, primarily cleft lip and palate, to children and adults in Austin, 10-county surrounding area and Latin America. www.austinsmiles.org

Austin Speech Labs

Our mission is to help uninsured, underinsured and underserved stroke survivors and their caregivers re-engage in their social and professional lives.  We provide intensive speech, language and cognitive therapy.  www.austinspeechlabs.org

 

The Austin State Hospital Volunteer Services Council's mission is to enrich the lives of patients receiving services at Austin State Hospital (ASH). ASH serves the inpatient mental health needs of Texans from 38 counties for adults and 71 counties for children. www.ashvolunteers.org

The Volunteer Services Council for the Austin State School mission is to enhance and enrich the quality of life for individuals who reside at the Austin State School. The Austin State School provides 24-hour residential treatment and training services to over 430 individuals with mental retardation. www.aussvsc.org

Austin Travis County Mental Health Mental Retardation Center

ATCMHMR improves the lives of people who experience mental, emotional or substance use disorders and intellectual and developmental disabilities by: providing effective treatment and support services; active advocacy, education, and collaboration; exercising responsible stewardship; promoting recovery; and encouraging positive attitudes and expectations. www.atcmhmr.com

To improve the lives of persons with autism and their families in Central Texas by, among other activities, serving as a clearinghouse for information about autism and autism-related resources and providing education and support opportunities. www.autism-society.org/chapter244

The fundraising arm for both The Blood Center of Central Texas and The Tissue Center of Central Texas, the center accepts financial contributions that play a critical role in both Centers' ability to purchase equipment, maintain facilities and provide programs, education and services to the Central Texas community. www.inyourhands.org

Cancer Connection

Our mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals and families affected by cancer through practical, emotional, and spiritual support. www.thecancerconnection.org

Capital Area Dental Foundation
The Foundation serves to advance dental services for the economically disadvantaged in the Greater Austin Area.
www.capitalareadentalfoundation.org

Capital Area Mental Health Center
Our mission is to provide affordable, accessible low-cost psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families in Central Texas and to provide training for pre- and post-graduate students from mental health disciplines. Over 600 clients are served annually. Depression, bipolar, anxiety, trauma, abuse, addictions, grief/loss and relationship issues are common client concerns. www.camhc.org

Championship Hearts Foundation sponsors the Young Athlete Heart Screening Program.  The purpose of this program is to check for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM), a serious genetic heart condition that affects roughly one in 500 people.  We offer this simple, painless, screening free of charge to Texas student athletes between the ages of 14-18.  www.championshipheartsfoundation.org

Coalition for Emotional Literacy

We believe there is a direct correlation between animal abuse, family violence, and criminal behaviors. We strive to increase positive behaviors and diminish destructive behaviors towards humans and non-humans through education programs. We also establish temporary shelters for pets of families fleeing abusive conditions and seniors that go in for extended care. www.theCEL.org

Easter Seals Central Texas

Easter Seals Central Texas provides exceptional services so people with disabilities and their families can fully participate in their communities. We provide comprehensive rehabilitation and employment services. Our rehabilitiation services include physical, occupational and speech therapy, audiology, service coordination, and counseling. Our employment services include job placement, training and continuing education. www.centraltx.easterseals.com

The Epilepsy Foundation will ensure that people with seizures are able to participate in all life experiences; and will prevent, control and cure epilepsy through services, education, advocacy and research. www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efcst/

Health Alliance for Austin Musicians

The Health Alliance for Austin Musicians (HAAM) provides access to affordable healthcare to Austin's low-income, uninsured working musicians. Services include: primary medical care through Seton Family of Hospitals, basic dental care through St. David's Community Health Foundation Leadership and mental health counseling and addiction recovery services through the SIMS Foundation. www.myhaam.org

Hospice Austin is a nonprofit organization that serves terminally ill and bereaved persons in our community with integrity, compassion and respect. www.hospiceaustin.org

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) is the world's largest charitable funder and advocate of type 1 diabetes research. The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research. www.jdrfaustin.org

Our mission is to prevent diabetes and reduce obesity in Hispanic families by teaching healthy lifestyle through community-based intervention programs in the underserved communities of North Austin and Round Rock. Our Program focuses on weight loss and healthy lifestyle by providing, exercise and cooking classes, nutrition and behavior change consultations. www.keepithealthy.org

The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) unites people to fight cancer, believing that unity is strength, knowledge is power and attitude is everything. We provide the practical information and tools people battling cancer need to live life on their own terms. The LAF's mission is to inspire and empower people affected by cancer. www.livestrong.org

Our Mission:  Cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.  We provide patient aid, services, support groups and programs for 46 counties in the Central Texas area. www.lls.org/ctx

The Lilith Fund

The Lilith Fund assists women in exercising their fundamental right to abortion by removing barriers to access. www.lilithfund.org

We seek to alleviate the suffering felt by those living in disadvantaged conditions. We utilize a three pronged approach of affordable dental care, basic needs, and free education services in order to address the cyclical nature of poverty. Those served may be the homeless, the working poor and the underserved. www.manosdecristo.org

We are dedicated to fulfilling the growing need for an unique equine encounter providing to those with special needs an opportunity to experience Equine Assisted Activities (EAA) using our mobile herd of trained miniature horses to come to visit with them in the community. www.minisandfriends.org

The Missy Project

The Missy Project is dedicated to Raising Awareness of Brain Aneurysm Disease in children through education, outreach and early detection research. www.themissyproject.com

Mothers' Milk Bank At Austin

Milk Bank at Austin’s mission is to accept, pasteurize, and dispense donor human milk by physician prescription primarily to premature and ill infants. www.milkbank.org

The Muscular Dystrophy Association is a voluntary health agency working to defeat neuromuscular diseases through programs of worldwide research, comprehensive services, and far-reaching professional and public health education. www.mdausa.org

To assist traumatized and/or grieving children and adults as they move from loss to life through support groups, therapy, training and consultation throughout the greater Austin area. www.myhealingplace.org

The mission of NAMI Austin is to improve the lives of all persons affected by serious mental illness by providing support, education and advocacy through a grassroots network. NAMI Austin is dedicated to supporting the inclusion of individuals with mental illness throughout the organization. www.namiaustin.org

New Life Institute

We are the nation’s leading health privacy watchdog. Our mission is to ensure Americans control access to their most intimate information, their health records. We educate the public and media, working as a diverse coalition to educate Congress and collaborate with leaders in the health IT. www.patientprivacyrights.org

People’s Community Clinic

People’s Community Clinic works to improve the health of medically underserved and uninsured Central Texans by providing high quality, affordable healthcare. 1 in 4 Central Texas has no health insurance. We deliver a full range of primary care and wellness services to the 11,000 patients who call the Clinic their medical home. www.austinpcc.org

Planned Parenthood seeks to help individuals make informed decisions about their reproductive health, sexuality and parenthood. Our services include: gynecological exams, birth control, breast and cervical cancer screenings, emergency contraception, rapid HIV testing, colposcopy & cryotherapy, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, vasectomies, pregnancy testing, education, training and advocacy. www.ppaustin.org

Planet Cancer

Planet Cancer is a peer support organization for young adults with cancer in their 20s and 30s, with an active on-line community, weekend retreat programs, and a voice in the medical community for our underserved population. Planet Cancer exists so that no young adult will have to endure the isolation of their diagnosis again. www.planetcancer.org

Project Transitions, Inc.

Project Transitions, founded in 1989, is dedicated to serving people living with HIV/AIDS, by providing hospice, housing, and support in a compassionate and caring environment. www.projecttransitions.org

Prostate Cancer Resource Center
Our mission is to provide screening, education and awareness for Prostate Cancer in underserved minorities and underinsured. This is a grassroots operation providing mentoring newly diagnosed with seasoned survivors.
www.prostatecancerresoursecenter.org

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas provides lodging and support services in a nurturing, home-like environment where families stay together while caring for their critically ill or injured children receiving treatment in Austin-area hospitals. www.rmhc-austin.org

St. David's Foundation

The St. David’s Foundation serves more than 25,000 area schoolchildren and adults with free dental services via 6 mobile dental clinics, and collaborates with other Central Texas agencies through grants, programs, and sponsorships to promote primary health care, healthy aging, mental health services and support for health care research.
www.sdchf.org

Samaritan Center for Counseling and Pastoral Care
A nonprofit, interfaith counseling center whose mission is to integrate professional, affordable mental health counseling services with a client's own personal and spiritual values. Our staff is sensitive to spiritual issues but does not impose religious concepts on their clients. We serve children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. www.samaritan-center.org

Seton Family of Hospitals
The Seton Family of Hospitals is committed to providing access to comprehensive, leading edge, compassionate health care to all Central Texas residents. Through leadership, collaborative efforts and good stewardship, Seton can meet those demands and truly make life healthier for those we serve. www.seton.org

SIMS Foundation
The SIMS Mission is to provide access to and financial support for mental health and addiction recovery services for Austin-area musicians and their families. www.simsfoundation.org

Susan G. Komen for the Cure - Austin Affiliate
Susan G. Komen for the Cure is fighting every minute of every day to finally, once and for all, finish what we started and achieve our vision of a world without breast cancer.  www.komenaustin.org

Take Heart Austin
Each year, more than 300,000 Americans including nearly 500 Austin/Travis County residents of all ages die from sudden cardiac arrest.  Take Heart Austin uses a coordinated, community-wide approach to implement state of the art methods that will dramatically increase the survival rate from sudden cardiac arrest in our communities. www.takeheartaustin.org

Texas Health Institute
Our mission is to provide leadership to improve the health of Texans and their communities through education, research, and health policy.  www.texashealthinstitute.org

Texans for Stem Cell Research
Our mission is to provide education and advocacy of not only the possible medical benefits of stem cell research to Texas citizens, but also the positive economic impact this research can bring to the State of Texas and the City of Austin. www.txstemcell.org

Volunteer Healthcare Clinic
The Volunteer Healthcare Clinic provides free healthcare to people in our community who are low-income and uninsured.   With the help of over 400 volunteers and many community collaborations, the Clinic provides walk-in acute care services 2-nights a week and chronic disease management services 1-night a week. www.volclinic.org

Waterloo Counseling Center
Waterloo Counseling Center provides affordable mental health counseling services and training with an expertise in gender and sexual diversity. Waterloo offers several options for therapy including individual, couples, group and family counseling. All services are based on a sliding scale and some grant-funded services are available for clients who are unable to otherwise afford services. www.waterloocounseling.org

The Wright House Wellness Center
To help people living with chronic illnesses make healthier life-style choices and employ integrated wellness therapies to delay the illness. We provide no-cost to low-cost physical and emotional support and services for persons living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and hepatitis C; peer education and support; and community education. www.thewrighthouse.org

YWCA of Greater Austin
In pursuit of its mission to eliminate racism and empower women, the YWCA of Greater Austin specializes in mental health counseling for women and families, provides prevention/intervention services for at-risk girls and other youth, and coordinates professional training and a variety of community service and fundraising events. www.YWCAaustin.org

VCFS Texas, Inc.
The purpose of VCFS Texas, Inc. is to provide support and resources to individuals with Velo-Cardio-Facial-Syndrome (VCFS), their families, professionals, and the community in Texas. We achieve this by: Increasing public awareness and educating the community. www.vcfstexas.com

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