Partner Agencies
Addiction Recovery Ministries
902 Hood Rd.
P.O. Box 511
Mineral Wells, Tx. 76067
940-325-7499
Addiction Recovery Ministries provides life recovery classes to clients that are referred from Child Protective Services, probation, parole and individual. They also provide services to inmates at the county jail. The classes are Anger Management, 12 Steps, Parenting, Substance Abuse Relapse Prevention and Grief Recovery. They provide one on one education on Image Enhancement, Values Clarification, Domestic Violence, Home management, Budgeting, Life Choices, Your Child & Choices, Walls Must Come Down and Marriage Counseling.
Meals on Wheels of Palo Pinto County, Inc.
1410 SE Martin Luther King Jr. St.
Mineral Wells, Tx. 76067
940-325-7919
Meals on Wheels aims to improve the nutrition, food security and lives of those they serve. Many elderly and homebound people find themselves isolated and alone, with no way to shop for food or prepare meals. They then find themselves unable to live independently and in poor health due in part to a lack of nutrition. Each weekday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., our volunteers deliver meals to the homes of clients in the Mineral Wells/Palo Pinto County area. We serve individuals who are homebound, elderly or disabled and who might otherwise not be able to have a nutritious lunchtime meal.
Mineral Center of Life
200 S.W. 5th St.
Mineral Wells, Tx. 76067
940-327-8700
Mineral Wells Center of Life is a Christ-centered ministry dedicated to helping break the cycle of poverty in Palo Pinto County by helping others become self-sufficient through faith, education and mentoring solutions and emerging into a more independent life through faith, education, and mentoring. The offer a food pantry, GED classes, help with utility bills and much more.
Palo Pinto 4-H
221 S. 5th Ave.
P.O. box 130
Palo Pinto, Tx. 76484
940-659-1228
Palo Pinto 4-H provides opportunities for Palo Pinto County youth that address a variety of project areas and topic. Plan to use the following methods: project group meetings/workshops, camps, tours, leadership trainings, contests, club meetings and recognition events. 4-H empowers young people with the skills to lead for a lifetime. It is a research-based experience that includes a mentor, a hands-on-project, and a meaningful experience.
The Salvation Army MW/Palo Pinto County Service Extension
P.O. Box 861
Mineral Wells, Tx. 76067
940-327-8700
Salvation Army assists families in Palo Pinto County and the greater Mineral Wells area to survive various emergency crises that result in a need for help paying a utility, pharmacy bill or rent. The goal is to help families maintain through a temporary crisis the basic utility service they need for food preservation (electric for refrigeration), protection from exposure (electric and or gas for heat/cool), hygiene (water for cleaning), and cooking (water, gas and electric). Some of the crises which resulted in the need of this program are floods, fire, storms, sudden loss of employment, spousal abandonment, unexpected medical expenses, and theft.
New Haven Ministries
115 S.W. 3rd St.
P. O. Box D
Mineral Wells, Tx. 76067
940-452-1784
New Haven Helping Hands provides groceries to every major sized community in Palo Pinto County. Mineral Wells retail values if approximately $300-$400 to each client each month. Mobil delivery of food to Gordon, Mingus, Strawn, and Graford. Homebound delivery to Mineral Well. Special Senior Day in Mineral Wells serves over 250-300 families a day.
Mineral Wells Senior Center
102 NW 6th Avenue
Mineral Wells, Tx. 76067
940-325-6470
The Mineral Wells Senior Center offers a wide variety of programs and services to seniors age 50+ in the community. These include meal and nutrition programs, educational/art programs, health programs, social and recreational activities.
Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains (Mineral Wells Troop)
4901 Briarhaven Rd.
Fort Worth, Tx. 76109
817-735-1261
Girls Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains, Inc. is a nonprofit organization serving girls and adults in eighty-one counties throughout the Texas and Oklahoma Plains. At Girl Scouts, we are all about practicing everyday leadership, preparing girls to empower themselves, and promoting Girl Scout leadership experiences. Girl Scouts prepares girls with the skills and experiences they need to empower themselves for life.
Palo Pinto County Child Welfare Board Rainbow Room
P.O. Box 1054
Mineral Wells, Tx. 76067
940-328-2220
Promoting the prevention of child abuse and neglect so that the children of Palo Pinto County can live in safe loving and nurturing environments. Most of all, to provide support to vulnerable children and families to strengthen the family unit. We provide financial assistance to children of Palo Pinto County 0-18 years of age that are currently in foster care or part of Family Based Safety Services working to keep the family units together. We provide clothing allotments twice a year, DNA/drug testing, etc. In addition, we provide senior year expenses, exit expenses, transportation and in some FBSS cases food, utilities, and gas.