Helping Homeless Families

Childcare

Social Services

Parenting Program

Affiliate Agencies

Community
Collaborations

Facts About Homelessness

Community Collaborations

The Vogel Alcove works with the following community organizations to address the needs of the youngest of homeless children in our community:

• Brookhaven Community College: provides staff training and career planning
  
  
• Capers for Kids: provides creative drama and visual art classes
  
  
• Captain Hope's Kids: donates diapers, wipes and lotions
  
  
• Community Dental Care: provides free on-site dental care, education and prevention
  
  
• Continuum of Care: works together to secure HUD grant funding for the homeless in Dallas
  
  
• Dallas Arboretum: hosts once-a-year field trip, including lunch, for Alcove families and staff
  
  
• Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center: provides workshops and training on sexual abuse prevention
  
  
• Dallas Community Voicemail: the Alcove purchases phone numbers for parents, as needed
  
  
• Dallas Furniture Bank: provides furniture for formerly homeless families reentering society
  
  
• Dallas Psychoanalytic Center: provides clinical therapists and psychiatrists on difficult cases
  
  
• Early Childhood Intervention (Dallas Public Schools): provides developmental services
  
  
• Educational First Steps: provides professional assistance for our childcare staff
  
  
• Head Start of Greater Dallas: partnership that funds three pre-school classrooms at the Alcove
  
  
• Legal Aid of Northwest Texas: provides free monthly legal services for Alcove families
  
  
• Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance: community-wide organization to eradicate homelessness in Dallas
  
  
• Milestone Therapy Services: provides on-site speech, physical and occupational therapy
  
  
• Museum of Nature & Science: brings different animals to the Alcove to teach science and nature
  
  
• Operation Kindness: brings Marty the Therapy Dog to teach children about animal safety and care
  
  
• Parkland Hospital:  provides free medical care through the HOMES medical outreach van
  
  
• Prevent Blindness Texas: provides on-site quarterly vision screening
  
  
• Rainbow Days: weekly age-appropriate program that addresses self-esteem to children in crisis
  
  
• Senior Source: places eligible senior citizens to volunteer as “Foster Grandparents”
  
  
• University of Texas at Dallas: performs in-depth developmental screens for children with delays