Local Service Projects
Zonta members have a volunteer relationship with the following Dallas organizations.
OUR FRIENDS PLACE offers an important and unique service to abused and neglected girls ages 10 to 17, and young women ages 18 to 24 without family support. They are taught independent living skills and life skills, helping them to become productive members of society.
FAMILY GATEWAY, in cooperation with the religious community and private sector and government entities, provides comprehensive services to children whose families are in crisis: counseling, temporary housing, job search and placement assistance, transitional living apartments and community transition services. The program offers training and counseling that are intended to restore dignity, stability and self-sufficiency to the family unit. All programs and environments are designed to create an atmosphere of emotional, social and economic empowerment.
LETOT CENTER is an educational short-term residential facility that provides assessment, crisis intervention, emergency shelter care, foster care, non-residential counseling and referral services for status offenders. The facility has a shelter capacity for 40 youth in residential care. Programming is designed to reunite runaways with their families whenever possible and to prevent youth from committing criminal offenses or from entering the Juvenile Justice System. Individualized treatment plans for each youth and their family are designed to increase healthy protective factors and decrease risk factors associated with delinquency.