The Montrose Center
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
We envision a healthier society marked by permanent, positive changes in attitudes and behaviors toward the LGBTQ+ communities, and the ability of all LGBTQ+ individuals to realize their fullest potential.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Hatch Youth Services
Hatch Youth is Houston’s oldest, currently active social group dedicated to empowering LGBTQIA+ youth between the ages of 7 and 20. Hatch Youth groups provide a safe and affirming environment where youth can socialize, make new friends, and engage in educational and creative activities to help youth in and around Houston not just survive, but thrive. Services also include the Center's Hatch Homeless Youth Rapid Rehousing program which has housed 200 youth since beginning in 2017.
Way Out Recovery Program
The Way Out Recovery Program provides state-licensed Level III and Level IV outpatient drug and alcohol treatment, primarily to LGBT individuals as well as persons living with HIV/AIDS. It includes an eight-week intensive course with individual counseling, followed by extended relapse prevention and recovery support services. Successful recovery requires a strong support system and full disclosure about what triggers our addictions, which often linked to family issues, relationships and sexual behaviors. Many LGBT and HIV+ individuals have difficulty identifying trustworthy persons to include in their support network. Because we are by, for and about the LGBT and HIV communities, the WAY OUT Recovery Program succeeds in providing that initial support network, and in connecting recoverees with affirming support groups post-treatment.
Anti-Violence Program
The Anti-Violence Program offers individual, couple/family and group psychotherapy for survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, and bias/hate crimes, and trafficking. In 2001, the program was approved as a full-service rape crisis program. A 24-hour helpline, the LGBT Switchboard, serves as the system entry point. English- and Spanish-speaking advocates are available through the Switchboard to accompany crime survivors to the police to fill out a report and/or to the hospital for treatment. They can help someone access legal representation or file for crime victims compensation. The LGBT Switchboard provides information, nonjudgmental support, crisis intervention and referral services to Houston's LGBT population. The Center also is classified as a non-residential center for domestic violence because hotels are used instead of a traditional shelter model.
LIFE Counseling
The Montrose Center’s LIFE (Living Insightfully for Empowerment) Counseling Program offers professional individual, couples/family and group counseling by licensed master level therapists*, allowing you to explore behavioral and emotional issues, problems and conditions without fear of encountering prejudice, fear, ignorance, homophobia, transphobia or heterosexism. The Center's clinicians represent a broad variety of modalities, techniques and expertise, and are passionate about social justice for the LGBTQ+ community and issues that affect it specifically.
Where we work
Awards
100 Best Communities for Young People 2010
America's Promise Alliance
Houston Pride Parade Organization Grand Marshal 2010
Pride Houston
Innovator Award 2013
Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services
Affiliations & memberships
Texas Council on Family Violence 2001
United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast 2001
Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council 2003
Houston/Harris County Coalition for the Homeless 2004
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of meals delivered
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
To improve the health, mental health and overall well-being of the LGBTQ+ community in Houston.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Established in 1978, the Montrose Center was created to provide mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services to the LGBTQ+ community of Houston, who continue to be an ill-served and underserved population in the city. Today, the Center is the first Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic in the state. For the past 45 years, the Center has built a model behavioral health continuum of care with an integrated service approach designed for clients to create their own paths to success. Core services include case management, service linkage and coaching; professional counseling; sexual assault and domestic violence survivor services; outpatient treatment for co-occurring substance use disorders, primary care integration, preventive wellness, youth development programs, and senior services including low-income housing. The Center is a leader in serving people living with HIV and is a trusted and well-known provider uniquely positioned to work with highly vulnerable and hard to reach populations (unhoused, people who inject drugs) that other organizations are not skilled in reaching.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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The Montrose Center
Board of directorsas of 02/07/2023
Tara Kelly
Millennium Management
Gary Wood
Integrus Solutions
Mark Jacobs
Houston Capital Corporation
Paul Guillory
EOG Resources, Inc
Tina Burgos
Inverness Realty Group
Jude Anderson
The Goodman Corporation
Clark Caperton
Alvarez & Marsal
Bryan Cotton
Texas American Realty
Christopher Delphin
Bloom Energy Corporation
Jani Lopez
Retired, formerly Shell Oil Company
David Ramirez
Craft Salon
Jane Robinson
Ahmad Zavitsanos & Mensing PC
Nancy Sims
Self-Employed
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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