Helping Hand Home for Children

For more than 120 years, Helping Hand Home for Children has provided a place to heal for abused, neglected and abandoned children. Our mission is to provide a nurturing and therapeutic home for children and to restore each child to a healthy family setting. Helping Hand Home provides residential treatment services, therapeutic foster care, adoption services, and an on-site charter school for children who have suffered severe abuse and neglect. We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization located in Austin, Texas licensed by the State of Texas, and governed by the membership of the Helping Hand Society. Children, whose young lives were once filled with fear, pain, and chaos, are learning to trust adults to take care of them and reclaim their childhood. The Home is the oldest continuously operating residential childcare agency in Travis County, and a priceless resource kept strong and viable through community support.