SEARCH (the Service of the Emergency Aid Resource Center for the Homeless) is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping homeless men, women and children get off the streets and into jobs and affordable housing. SEARCH serves more than 10,000 homeless individuals annually throughout the greater Houston metropolitan area.
SEARCH seeks to eliminate homelessness by enabling its clients to achieve self-sufficiency. To reach this goal, SEARCH principally provides employment counseling, job training, and adult continuing education programs. SEARCH also offers necessary support services, such as a full-scale medical clinic, community-based housing, mental-health treatment, and a day shelter with showers, meals, and laundry facilities. Finally, SEARCH operates the House of Tiny Treasures (HTT), Houston’s first accredited childcare center dedicated exclusively to homeless children. HTT provides exemplary early childhood education for children ages six weeks to six years whose parents are clients of SEARCH.
SEARCH was founded in 1989 by the Council of Congregations, an ecumenical association of Houston area churches and synagogues. The Council, which today consists of 36 area congregations, remains dedicated to reducing and eventually eliminating homelessness in Houston.
For more information about SEARCH, email ctk@ctkelc.org or contact either Steven Bryant (Christ the King Church’s representative to SEARCH) at 713-226-1489 or Karen Chitty-Boe (SEARCH’s public liaison) at 713-739-7752, x293.
You may also come by SEARCH’s headquarters at 2505 Fannin, Houston, Texas, during regular business hours.