ETC will celebrate 50 years of serving youth & families of SWLA in 2025!
Emergency Shelter for Youth
Harbour House
Harbour House is a licensed, 18-bed residential facility for youth ages 10 - 17.
The program offers shelter services for runaway and homeless youth, status offenders, and other minors in need of a safe place.
Harbour House also provides brief respite for youth of families in crisis to ensure everyone's safety.
What We Do
Our Counselor provides individual and family sessions as well as group counseling covering a variety of topics such as anger management, communication skills, family issues, responsibility, and goal setting.
Our Case Manager is the liaison to the guardian and referral source. She schedules and transports youth to appointments and links the child and/or family with community partners for resources and services.
Youth Care Workers are responsible for the care, welfare, safety, and security of the residents. They model appropriate behaviors and coping strategies, build on youth strengths to enhance their life skills, implement service plan activities, and engage the youth in recreational activities.
WE ARE OPEN!
We are so very excited to announce that our residential building for Harbour House has finally reopened! It has been a very slow process of repairing damages since the hurricanes of 2020 and subsequent winter storm in 2021. Due to those weather events, we have operated at a very limited capacity, using an alternate residential site to offer the services we could provide in the interim.
HUGE THANKS to our friends at Jackson Hewitt Tax Services for their very generous donation of video gaming system components, games, movies, and school supplies in August, 2023!
Funding Sources
Harbour House is funded through grants and contracts with the following agencies:
Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, Office of Juvenile Justice Services
Louisiana State Office of Juvenile Justice
U.S. Administration for Children & Families
Residential Programs for Young Adults (Ages 17-22)
Transitional Living Program (TLP)
Transitional Living Program for Homeless Youth
Transitional Living Program for Homeless Youth
Supervised apartment housing for males ages 17-21 who are aging out of the state juvenile justice system.
Youth develop and strengthen basic independent living skills focusing on goal setting, job attainment, educational advancement, and money management.
The program staff guide residents in learning necessary skills
to assist with becoming self-sufficient, productive,
contributing members of society.
Transitional Living Program for Homeless Youth
Transitional Living Program for Homeless Youth
Transitional Living Program for Homeless Youth
Independent living residential program for young adults (males and females) experiencing homelessness or without an adequate network of family or friends to offer housing options.
Structured much like our TLP program, residents identify goals focusing on educational advancement, vocational training, and money management. Residents are encouraged to establish permanent connections within the community for continued support
and access to available programs and resources.