A Hoarding Alliance local resource guide

Hoarding support in Corpus Christi, Texas.

A respectful place to begin, whether you are looking for support for yourself, worried about someone you love, or trying to respond to a safety, housing, care, or practical concern in Corpus Christi and Nueces County.

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You do not have to know the perfect next step.

Fight the Blight is the nonprofit and virtual-group front door for people affected by hoarding and clutter concerns, including people who are directly affected and supporters who want to learn how to provide support. People in Corpus Christi and Nueces County can also use current city, county, state, nonprofit, peer-support, qualified-care, housing, shelter, food, benefits, transportation, code, disposal, and practical pathways. No outside listing is an endorsement; each organization sets its own eligibility, cost, hours, service area, capacity, consent, privacy, and safety rules.

For immediate danger

For immediate danger, fire, serious injury, violence, or a life-threatening medical emergency, call 911. For behavioral-health or substance-use crisis support in Nueces County, call or text 988 or call Coastal Bend Wellness at 1-888-767-4493 for its 24/7 Mobile Crisis Outreach pathway. For housing, food, utilities, transportation, and other basic-needs navigation, call 211. Confirm the current local response before relying on it.

First conversations

A few good places to start

You do not need to know the perfect service name before reaching out. These organizations can help you understand the landscape and identify a next step.

Community health, behavioral-health, substance-use, and qualified-care pathway · Corpus Christi and Nueces County · intake, payment, and program rules apply

Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation

Coastal Bend Wellness Foundation is a community health center with primary care, behavioral health, substance-misuse services, support for people who are unhoused, and other health and wellness programs. Its site publishes a 24/7 Mobile Crisis Outreach Team for Nueces County at 1-888-767-4493. For planned care, confirm intake, insurance or sliding-fee options, privacy, accessibility, and current capacity; this is not a cleanup service.

Public housing and Housing Choice Voucher pathway · Corpus Christi · income, household, documentation, waitlist, and program rules apply

Corpus Christi Housing Authority

The Corpus Christi Housing Authority provides an online preliminary application process for public housing and the Housing Choice Voucher program, along with applicant and resident portals. Confirm whether the relevant waitlist or property is open, current income and household requirements, documents, reasonable-accommodation options, and the safest way to apply. An application does not guarantee a unit.

Municipal housing, homeowner, neighborhood, and federal-grant navigation · Corpus Christi city limits · program, income, property, and application rules apply

City of Corpus Christi Community Development

The city's Community Development division publishes housing programs, homeowner assistance, affordable-housing planning, neighborhood investment, and public notices. Ask which current program fits the household and whether funding, income, property, documentation, and timing rules apply. City programs are not guaranteed cleanup funding or emergency response.

Food pantry, meal, mobile-distribution, senior-food, and benefits-navigation pathway · Corpus Christi and 11 counties · partner-agency eligibility and availability vary

Coastal Bend Food Bank

The Coastal Bend Food Bank's locator connects people with current pantry, meal, mobile-distribution, and senior-food options. Its social-services pathway also helps with applications for SNAP, CHIP, Medicaid, and TANF. The partner agency sets its own schedule and eligibility, so confirm hours, documents, transportation, and household rules before traveling.

Free 24/7 statewide human-services navigation · Texas, including Nueces County · local provider eligibility and capacity vary

Texas 2-1-1

Texas 2-1-1 connects callers with local housing, food, utilities, transportation, health, behavioral-health, benefits, and other basic-needs resources. Call 211 or search the guided directory by ZIP code or county. A referral is not a guarantee of an open bed, appointment, benefit, or service; confirm directly and call 911 for an emergency.

Day shelter, outreach, meals, showers, laundry, and transitional-housing pathway · Corpus Christi · homelessness, intake, hours, and capacity rules apply

Mother Teresa Shelter

Mother Teresa Shelter provides community-based outreach services for homeless individuals and families and operates transitional housing for single men with supportive services. Confirm current intake, hours, accessibility, referral or homelessness-verification requirements, and available capacity before traveling; it is not a hoarding-support group or cleanup service.

Career-center, job-training, child-care, and employment-support pathway · Corpus Christi and the 11-county region · program and eligibility rules apply

Workforce Solutions Coastal Bend

Workforce Solutions Coastal Bend provides job-seeker services, career coaching, training scholarships, child-care assistance, veteran and youth services, and accessible career-center resources. The Mission Plaza Career Center is at 4981 Ayers Street in Corpus Christi. Confirm current hours, eligibility, documents, accommodations, and available training or child-care funding.

Safety and stability

When the concern involves safety, housing, or crisis

These pathways serve different situations. Read the labels carefully before calling, especially when a response may involve crisis care, protective services, shelter, housing rules, legal advocacy, or emergency dispatch.

Immediate danger and emergency dispatch · Corpus Christi and Nueces County · use for fire, medical emergency, violence, or immediate threat

911 Emergency Services

Call 911 when there is immediate danger, fire, a medical emergency, violence, or a threat that cannot wait for a scheduled service. Emergency dispatch is not a hoarding-support program, behavioral-health counseling service, or cleanup provider. When the situation is not immediately dangerous, begin with support, care, or navigation.

Free 24/7 behavioral-health and substance-use crisis support · Texas and nationwide · crisis screening and response rules apply

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

Call or text 988 for emotional distress, suicidal thoughts, a mental-health or substance-use crisis, or concern about someone else. 988 is not emergency dispatch, a shelter, or a cleanup service; call 911 for immediate danger, fire, violence, or a medical emergency.

24/7 regional behavioral-health mobile-crisis pathway · Nueces County · assessment, response, safety, and handoff rules apply

Coastal Bend Wellness Mobile Crisis Outreach

Coastal Bend Wellness publishes a 24/7 Mobile Crisis Outreach Team for Nueces County. Call 1-888-767-4493 for behavioral-health crisis support and ask what current response fits. Call 911 for immediate physical danger, fire, or a medical emergency; this is not a cleanup service.

State protective-services reporting pathway for abuse, neglect, self-neglect, or exploitation · Texas · age, disability, jurisdiction, and response rules apply

Texas Adult Protective Services

Texas APS investigates allegations involving adults 65 and older or adults 18 to 64 with a disability that substantially affects independent living. It may connect eligible adults with short-term resources, but it cannot force services on a capable adult and is not a general cleanup referral. Use 911 for an emergency.

Confidential domestic-violence and sexual-assault crisis, shelter, advocacy, and safety-planning pathway · Coastal Bend · intake, confidentiality, and capacity rules apply

The Purple Door Crisis and Shelter Services

The Purple Door offers free confidential services for people affected by domestic violence or sexual assault, including safety planning, shelter, advocacy, and support. Use it for a genuine violence or abuse concern; it is not a general shelter, hoarding-support group, or cleanup service.

Municipal code, property-maintenance, unsafe-building, trash, furniture, and neighborhood-safety pathway · Corpus Christi city limits · report, inspection, notice, correction, and appeal rules apply

City of Corpus Christi Code Compliance

Code Compliance describes education, enforcement, and abatement of code violations involving trash, furniture, dangerous buildings, and unsafe conditions, with reports routed through 311. A report can start a formal municipal process and is not the same as consent-based support; ask about voluntary options and timelines before relying on this route.

Municipal sanitation, household-hazardous-waste, brush, bulky-item, and disposal pathway · Corpus Christi residents · item, schedule, curb, and service rules apply

City of Corpus Christi Solid Waste Services

The city provides residential trash, recycling, household-hazardous-waste, brush, and bulky-item services. Its current service page says brush and bulky items are picked up curbside twice a year and directs residents to collection centers and address-based schedules. Confirm accepted items and the current service date before moving anything outside.

Fire prevention, life-safety, emergency-management, and smoke-alarm pathway · Corpus Christi · emergency, inspection, and program rules apply

Corpus Christi Fire Department

The city's Fire Department publishes fire-safety and prevention information, emergency-management links, and a request route for smoke alarms. Use 911 for a fire or immediate danger; planned safety questions should go through the department's current public information route. This is not a hoarding-support group or cleanup service.

Hurricane, flood, evacuation, disaster-preparedness, and recovery information · Corpus Christi · hazard, registration, route, and response rules apply

Corpus Christi Office of Emergency Management

The city's Office of Emergency Management publishes evacuation routes and maps, hurricane and flood-preparedness information, Reverse Alert, and disaster-recovery guidance. Use it to plan before an event and confirm current instructions during an emergency; it is not a behavioral-health, housing-placement, or cleanup service.

Municipal navigation for sanitation, property, housing-safety, neighborhood, utility, and city-service questions · Corpus Christi · jurisdiction and response rules vary

City of Corpus Christi 311 Call Center

The city call center routes residents to current departments for solid waste, code compliance, housing, property, utilities, and other municipal questions. A service request is not a promise of cleanup, repair, or emergency response; use 911 for immediate danger and ask which department, documents, and timeline apply.

People and practical help

Housing, food, care, transportation, and ongoing support

These listings connect the local community with housing, food, behavioral health, benefits, transit, survivor advocacy, disability support, peer support, and practical resources. Ask about current availability, cost, scope, consent, and safety before relying on them.

Public housing and Housing Choice Voucher application and resident-support pathway · Corpus Christi · income, household, waitlist, documentation, and program rules apply

Corpus Christi Housing Authority Applications

The Housing Authority provides applicant and resident portals for public housing and vouchers. Check directly for current waitlist status, other housing programs, reasonable accommodations, and application documents; an application does not guarantee a unit or immediate placement.

Municipal housing repair, neighborhood, affordable-housing, and federal-grant pathway · Corpus Christi city limits · program, income, property, and funding rules apply

City of Corpus Christi Housing and Neighborhood Programs

The city's Community Development division publishes current housing programs, homeowner assistance, affordable-housing planning, neighborhood investment, and public notices. Ask about eligibility, property requirements, documentation, wait times, and whether a current program addresses the concern; city funding is not guaranteed cleanup support.

Pantry, meal-site, mobile-distribution, and senior-food referral pathway · Corpus Christi and 11 counties · income, agency, schedule, and availability rules apply

Coastal Bend Food Bank Food Locator

Search the food bank's current locator by ZIP code for pantry, meal, mobile-distribution, and senior-food options. The partner agency determines eligibility and hours, so confirm identification, transportation, household rules, and available food before traveling.

Outreach, meals, showers, laundry, day-shelter, and transitional-housing pathway · Corpus Christi · homelessness, referral, intake, and capacity rules apply

Mother Teresa Shelter Day and Transitional Housing

Mother Teresa Shelter provides outreach services to homeless individuals and families and transitional housing with supportive services for eligible single men. Confirm current administrative hours, intake, referral or homelessness-verification requirements, accessibility, and openings before traveling.

Emergency shelter, homelessness prevention, meals, utility, and short-term housing-assistance pathway · Corpus Christi · intake, funding, and capacity rules apply

Salvation Army Coastal Bend

The Salvation Army Coastal Bend describes emergency shelters, homelessness-prevention case management, and rent or utility assistance when available. Its published information warns that shelters fill regularly, so confirm current intake, capacity, household eligibility, documentation, and transportation before traveling.

Free meals, primary-care clinic, transitional housing, clothing, hygiene, referrals, and case-management pathway · Corpus Christi · schedule, intake, and program rules vary

Corpus Christi Metro Ministries

Corpus Christi Metro Ministries operates Loaves & Fishes meals, the free Dr. James Gabbard Memorial Health Clinic, Rainbow House for women and children, Rustic House for men, and Vineyard Social Services for clothing, hygiene, referrals, and case management. Confirm the current calendar, intake, eligibility, accessibility, and available capacity before traveling.

Counseling, evaluation, education, and behavioral-health care pathway · Corpus Christi · patient intake, consent, payment, and capacity rules apply

Coastal Bend Wellness Behavioral Health

Coastal Bend Wellness describes counseling services for teens and adults, behavioral-health evaluation, support, and education in a trauma-informed environment. Planned counseling requires becoming a patient and completing screening and consent forms. Ask about current licensure, scope, insurance or sliding-fee options, privacy, and wait time; call the published crisis line for a crisis.

Primary and behavioral-health care with insurance and sliding-fee options · Corpus Christi · proof of income, patient intake, and service rules apply

Coastal Bend Wellness Sliding-Fee Care

Coastal Bend Wellness says it accepts Medicaid, Medicare, and several private insurance plans and offers a sliding-fee program for uninsured or under-insured patients who provide proof of income. Confirm current services, fee application, documentation, appointment availability, and whether the requested support is within scope.

Independent qualified counseling pathway · Corpus Christi and Kingsville · intake, privacy, appointment, and payment rules apply

Family Counseling Service of Corpus Christi

Family Counseling Service provides a local counseling intake route for its Corpus Christi office and publishes an appointment packet and contact instructions. Confirm current licensure, scope, fees or insurance, privacy of email or fax, wait time, accessibility, and whether the service fits the person's needs; it is not emergency care or cleanup support.

Job search, career coaching, training scholarship, youth, veteran, child-care, and accessible-workforce pathway · Coastal Bend · program and eligibility rules apply

Workforce Solutions Coastal Bend Career Center

Workforce Solutions provides no-cost career-center equipment and job-seeker resources, along with career coaching, virtual workshops, training scholarships, child-care assistance, and services for veterans and youth. The current Corpus Christi center is Mission Plaza, 4981 Ayers Street. Confirm current hours, eligibility, documents, and accommodations.

Public bus, trip-planning, accessible transportation, and evacuation-information pathway · Corpus Christi and Nueces County · route, fare, schedule, and eligibility rules vary

Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority

CCRTA publishes routes, alerts, trip planning, passes, accessibility information, and public-transit resources. Check current service before planning a trip to housing, food, medical care, or support and ask about reduced-fare or paratransit options.

Local public-health, clinic, testing, immunization, preparedness, WIC, and health-education pathway · Corpus Christi and Nueces County · program and appointment rules apply

City of Corpus Christi Health District

The Corpus Christi-Nueces County Health District publishes public-health clinics, immunization, WIC, health education, testing, preparedness, and other community-health programs. Confirm current clinic locations, appointment requirements, eligibility, language access, privacy, and service capacity; this is not hoarding-specific care or emergency dispatch.

State directory for county-based mental-health and substance-use authorities · Texas, including Nueces County · county, intake, eligibility, and response rules apply

Texas Health and Human Services Local Mental-Health Authority Search

Texas Health and Human Services maintains a current directory and service-area search for local mental-health and behavioral-health authorities. Use the county or ZIP search to identify the correct local intake line and ask about planned care, crisis response, eligibility, language access, and wait time. Use 988 or 911 for a crisis or emergency.

State benefits, local-resource, crisis, food, housing, utility, and community-support navigation · Texas · income, household, and program rules apply

Texas Health and Human Services Resource Navigation

Texas HHSC directs residents to current local resources for housing, food, childcare, crisis, substance use, utilities, and other needs and provides routes to find help. Use the current search to identify the right program, then confirm eligibility, documents, appointment route, and capacity before applying.

SNAP, CHIP, Medicaid, TANF, senior-food, and benefits-application assistance · Coastal Bend · income, household, application, and program rules apply

Coastal Bend Food Bank Social Services

The food bank lists application help for SNAP, CHIP, Medicaid, and TANF through social-services staff, along with senior food-box programs. Confirm the current appointment route, documents, language access, and program availability; benefits decisions are made by the relevant program, not by this guide.

Public library, computer, internet, research, meeting, and community-program pathway · Corpus Christi · library-card, location, schedule, and access rules apply

Corpus Christi Public Libraries

Corpus Christi Public Libraries provide library locations, computers and digital services, research resources, meeting spaces, and community programs. The library's current research page also describes basic computer help, community-resource information, and social-work student referrals for housing, utilities, benefits, aging and disability, mental health, and homelessness prevention. Confirm the current location, hours, library-card requirements, accessible services, and appointment availability before traveling.

Private-pay hoarding support, organizing help, groups, and family guidance · broader service area · scope, cost, scheduling, travel, consent, and safety rules apply

The Peer Tree

The Peer Tree is the private-pay pathway for organizing help, decluttering support, groups, family guidance, and practical next steps when a grant or public program is not the right fit. Ask about scope, cost, travel, consent, safety, and whether support is available in Corpus Christi or the Coastal Bend.

Digital peer-support pathway for people affected by hoarding and clutter concerns · online · not therapy or emergency support

Unburied

Unburied, from The Peer Tree, offers a judgment-free digital pathway with peer support, groups, and tools for people directly affected and for friends, family, property managers, municipal workers, and other supporters who want to learn how to provide support. It is not therapy, a crisis service, or a substitute for emergency help.

A note from the Alliance

Start with the person. Then decide what the situation needs.

This guide is anchored in Corpus Christi, Texas, and includes city, county, state, nonprofit, national, and independent pathways. A listing here does not mean Fight the Blight endorses every provider or can guarantee availability. The Hoarding Alliance is not a city or county agency, therapy practice, emergency service, or cleanup company. We will keep reviewing this page, but please confirm details directly before relying on them.

Need help choosing a path? Contact Fight the Blight