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MOSAIC FAMILY SERVICES, FOUNDED IN 1993
12225 Greenville Ave., Ste. 800, 214-821-5393, mosaicservices.org
WHO THEY ARE
Mosaic Family Services was founded at East Dallas Counseling Center 28 years ago by Walter Nguyen, a former refugee from Vietnam, to assist struggling refugees and immigrants in the Dallas area. Mosaic’s initial focus was on substance abuse, but its services have now broadened to include health, social and victim services to refugees and immigrants. The nonprofit’s main office is located out of the neighborhood and many of its clients reside in Lake Highlands and Vickery Meadow.
WHAT THEY DO
The nonprofit offers an emergency domestic violence and human trafficking shelter called Mosaic House. Mosaic offers an onsite licensed daycare facility for mothers to feel comfortable leaving their children while meeting with a legal team, attending counseling or going to job interviews. Mosaic has a full-time counselor who offers play therapy for children and comprehensive counseling for survivors. Other services include case management, a legal team, a citizenship program and more. Mosaic staff can speak over 25 languages.
HOW TO HELP
In June, Mosaic is hosting a drive-in fundraiser. In August, the nonprofit will hold a virtual trivia night. Mosaic’s sponsorship opportunities and tickets can be found online.
— Momtaz Begum, director of development
Brandon Baker, Diana Baker and Oschuwa Coleman.
KIDS-U, FOUNDED IN 2002
8515 Greenville Ave. Ste. N214, 214-503-3672, kids-u.org
WHO THEY ARE
Founders and longtime educators Paula DeGroat and Diana Baker started Kids-U to give low income children the same educational advantages as higher income peers. DeGroat and Baker based their programs in the low-income apartment communities to provide tutoring in math, language arts and reading for no cost. Kids-U’s first site was at the Deerfield Apartments in the Forest Lane and Audelia Road corridor. The first doors opened to 32 students in December 2002.
WHAT THEY DO
Kids-U provides out-of-school time programs for students. In the fall, it tutors kindergarten through eighth- graders in the three subject areas. To prevent the summer slide, the nonprofit provides a full-day, five-days-a-week summer enrichment camp. Kids-U offers a FACE (Family and Community Engagement) program that extends educational reach to adults with ESL and GED classes, adult computer literacy programs, financial literacy programs and parenting workshops. The nonprofit has also collaborated with the Northeast Division of DPD to add a crime watch program.
HOW TO HELP
Starting July 1 each year, Kids-U hosts a backpack drive for all students. The nonprofit asks for donations of backpacks and supplies to students to have when they return to school in the fall.
“We realized that parents in higher-income brackets were able to afford tutoring for their students. Our theory was that if we gave the low-income children the same advantages that their higher income peers were getting, that they could be just as successful.” — Diana Baker, executive director and co-founder
UNLOCKING DOORS, FOUNDED IN 2010
12225 Greenville Ave. Ste. 850, 214-2969258, unlockingdoors.org
WHO THEY ARE
Unlocking DOORS was formed to address Texas and Dallas County’s growing need for community-based offender programs and reintegration services. Founder, president and CEO Christina Melton Crain is a former chairwoman of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, an oversight board for the incarceration, parole and probation of Texas adult felons. The Unlocking DOORS founder started the nonprofit to give former offenders a second chance while also cutting crime rates and strengthening communities.
WHAT THEY DO
The nonprofit offers a comprehensive client re-entry brokerage for individuals 17 years old and older with criminal records. This program consists of a comprehensive risk assessment, an individualized reentry brokerage plan, referrals to community partners and ongoing monitoring and assistance. Unlocking DOORS offers community collaboration, education and training through an annual Texas reentry symposium, public awareness events, community speaking requests and community partner meetings. The nonprofit collects, analyzes and reports sets of evidence-based client data to illustrate predictive trends in criminal justice.
HOW TO HELP
Unlocking DOORS is currently holding a donation drive. Neighbors can donate online at unlockingdoors.org/donate-form.html or by mail with a check payable to “Unlocking Doors” to 12225 Greenville Ave., Ste. 850, Dallas, Texas 75243. The nonprofit’s Annual Virtual Texas Reentry Symposium will be Sept. 14.
“In the short seven years since the organization’s founding, [I have] witnessed the transformative effect Unlocking DOORS has had on former offenders when they are connected to the services they desperately need.” — Christina Melton Crain, founder, president and CEO
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By GEORGE MASON
Welcome the green shoots of vitality
Always look at one another with hope
The cicadas are coming! That was the headline in many papers a few weeks ago across the country. Big news. The 17-year cycle of the peculiar creatures that emerge from the ground, shed their outer shells and buzz around our patios is upon us. The reason they are news isn’t just that they come every 17 years; it’s that they symbolize the dependability of nature that hasn’t been disrupted by COVID-19 or climate change the way human life has been.
Signs of life abound this spring in Texas after more than a year of pandemic hibernation and then a snow apocalypse that added insult to injury. Many plants, bushes and trees have perished, but green shoots are emerging. A bird has nested with three newborns on the eave of my back porch.
For people like me — religious professionals who are weary of preaching to a camera in an empty sanctuary — signs in nature are matched by plans to regather inside our buildings, even if we remain masked for a time. The Centers for Disease Control lifted restrictions on in-person gatherings for worship, weddings, funerals and the like about a month ago. Most of our houses of worship are beginning re-entry now.
We are hopeful for the time to come when our tentative fist or elbow bumps turn into handshakes and hugs, when we can drop our judgments about the judgments of our neighbors regarding vaccinations and masks and social distancing, and instead see one another without trying to determine if they are good or bad because of whom they voted for or what news channel they frequent. Can we get there? Honestly, we have to.
The last book the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote was titled Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? That about summarizes it. We have a choice. We can choose to welcome the green shoots of vitality that emerge any time people look beyond differences to the soul of another, or we can allow the differences to define and divide us.
How will it be for you when you go back to church or synagogue or mosque in the weeks ahead? Will you see your fellow worshippers as siblings of spirit, united in their common humanity and drawn together by a common faith, or will you carry the legacy of suspicion and fear from these politicized times into your spiritual communities?
Religion is meant to unify, to bind people together around common beliefs and practices. Yes, one religion is delineated from another on the same basis. One denomination from another. But the force of identity that gives us a sense of belonging is not meant to overwhelm the force of neighborliness that is necessary for our common survival.
Let’s let nature lead us for once. When we see signs of new life, the renewal of the earth and the promise of fecundity, let’s look upon one another in the same way, ever hopeful of what may yet be ahead for one and all.
GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202. BAPTIST
PARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCH / 3933 Northwest Pky / pcbc.org Bible Study 9:15 / Worship Services 10:45 Traditional, Contemporary, Spanish Speaking / 214.860.1500
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WILSHIRE BAPTIST / 4316 Abrams / 214.452.3100 / PastorGeorge A. Mason, PhD / Worshiping virtually for now / YouTube premiere Sundays at 8:30am / wilshirebc.org
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NORTH HIGHLANDS BIBLE CHURCH / nhbc.net / 9626 Church Rd. 214.348.9697 / Sun: LifeQuest 9:00 am / Worship 10:30 am / Sun: Youth 6-8 pm/Wed: AWANA 6-8 pm
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