| Houston Galveston Institute
Rolling Conversations Project 
Description of the Organization
The Houston Galveston Institute, a private, non-profit organization, was founded in 1977 to meet the demand for mental health professionals seeking to increase their understanding of families and their skills in systems-oriented therapy with individuals, couples, families, and groups. . Our flexibility and collaborative approach has led to the creation of many innovative and successful programs. For more than twenty-five years we have worked with people referred by Children’s Protective Services. HGI provides group, individual, family and home-based therapy services for parents and children and develops working relationships with the many stakeholders in the system. HGI has worked with children at-risk and their families through almost three decades of work with Community Youth Services. Our Open Community Clinic provides services for self-payors, insured, under- and uninsured. HGI provides a sliding scale for these clients, who are often underserved in the community. The Institute has rich history of identifying services and populations that are in need and developing innovative and ground-breaking programs to meet those needs. One of these programs is the Rolling Conversations Project, a mobile mental health unit that contains two counseling offices and a waiting/registration room. This unit was given to HGI by the AmeriCares Foundation, a Connecticut-based disaster response organization, to provide mental health services to people displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It was launched in August 2007, and is providing counseling services at apartment complexes and community locations. Mission
Transforming lives and communities with innovative and collaborative therapy, training and research.
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