Austin Child Guidance Center

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Opportunities to Keep Our Garden Growing!

Austin Child Guidance Center has entered into a contest with other non-profit agencies across the United States in order to win $25,000 for improvements to our Children’s Healing Garden! This will help ACGC to purchase a rain-harvesting system for irrigation, as well as create a meditation labyrinth. Every day in March, please go to the [...]

Austin Child Guidance Center Offers Walk-In Therapy Services

Austin Child Guidance Center is now offering walk-in therapy services for children, up to age 17, and their family members, on Tuesdays (11 a.m. to 12 p.m.) and Fridays (3 p.m. to 4 p.m.). Mental health professionals are available to talk with youth and families who are struggling. Walk-in services are open to current clients as well those [...]

Helping Children Navigate Life

Did you know that an estimated 43,000 children and adolescents under the age of 18 in Travis County are with or at risk of mental health disorders? Consider the complications and effects of untreated mental health disorders:

• 50% of students age 14 or older who have mental illness will drop out of school;

• Children with mental illness are more than 3X as likely to be arrested in their youth than those without mental illness; and

• Children with mental illness fail more classes, earn lower GPAs, miss more days of school, and are retained in their grades more often than students without mental illness (SOURCE: Frequently Asked Questions About Child and Youth Mental Health Issues, CAN, September 2009).

Since 1951, Austin Child Guidance Center has been helping youth under 18 and their families gain the emotional skills to meet life’s challenges. Our sliding fee scale helps children and families from all income levels access the professional, high-quality services they need and deserve.

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