A free public tool that helps Texas social workers, counselors, and case managers find accurate, current community resources for their clients — built and maintained by a social worker.
Anyone who has made a referral knows the moment: you hand a client a number for a food pantry, a shelter, a crisis line — and it's disconnected, moved, or closed. The directories most of us rely on are large but often out of date, and verifying a resource means a chain of phone calls you don't have time for during a session.
The Texas Resource Navigator is my attempt to fix that for my own profession. It started with my work at Family Houston and grew into something that now covers all 254 Texas counties — start by tapping your county on the map, and you'll see the resources that serve it. Every record is checked against the organization's official source, and every card shows the date it was verified — so you can see, not guess, how current it is.
Every county's official 24/7 mental-health crisis line; domestic-violence hotlines and shelters; 988/911 always one tap away.
Food banks and pantries, housing and rent/utility help, benefits (SNAP, Medicaid, WIC).
Low-cost and sliding-scale clinics, Area Agencies on Aging, ADRCs.
Services for blind, deaf, and hard-of-hearing Texans — Talking Book Program, Relay Texas/STAP, assistive technology, and the state schools for the blind and deaf.
Autism, Down syndrome, IDD and developmental delay — special-education advocacy, Medicaid-waiver interest lists, Early Childhood Intervention, and family support.
Support for people returning from incarceration — reentry navigation, second-chance employment, record-sealing legal guides, and family support.
Free civil legal aid by county, veteran services, independent-living centers, school/McKinney-Vento support.
I'm Jacob Rosenberg, MSW (University of Houston) — connect with me on LinkedIn. My clinical background includes Family Houston, UH Veteran Services, and OCD Institute Texas, and I'm pursuing clinical licensure and a mental-health career. I built this because it's the tool I wanted on my own desk.
This is an independent, volunteer public-good project — offered free to any helping professional who finds it useful. If it grows into something that deserves a full team, that's a future worth building toward. For now, it's mine to maintain, carefully.
If you use it and something's wrong or missing, that feedback is the most valuable thing you can give: jacobtaylor35@gmail.com. Corrections are reviewed and applied quickly.