Our mission is to strengthen individuals and families through:
Counseling
Education
Advocacy
We achieve these goals through community education and awareness, promoting volunteerism and fundraising. We are very interested in your ideas and welcome your suggestions. We're here for you.
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In 1914 the Objectives of United Charities were to reduce vagrancy and pauperism; to prevent indiscriminate and duplicate giving; to see that all deserving cases of destitution were properly relieved; to make employment the basis of relief; to elevate home-life, health and habits of the poor; and to prevent children from growing up as paupers. Today, our organization is no longer known as United Charities . . . it is now called the Family Counseling Agency. We serve 8 Parishes in Central Louisiana and offer a wide range of services, but we didn't get where we are today in one leap. Over the years our organization has evolved and grown through many stages. |
Chronology (Name)
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The first two decades of the 20th century witnessed Alexandria and Pineville become sister cities when a pedestrian and traffic bridge was built to span the Red River. Paved streets, sewer systems and electricity brought the modern era further into focus. Railroads were converging on Central Louisiana from every direction, and with their arrival came a new industry, new residents and new challenges. Full-time paid police and fire departments became a reality. Among new public facilities built during the first twenty years of the new century were a library, a high school, a hospital, a college, a city hall and a court house. Rising to meet the needs of a growing community, our dedicated founders planted the seeds of compassion and enlightenment that would evolve from the fledgling United Charities to our contemporary family of services. |
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Among its many services in the early part of the century, the Agency helped families cope with the bureaucratic requirements that often made it difficult to acquire assistance from the government. In 1920, for example, the Agency helped five Confederate widows obtain their late husbands’ Army pensions. The Agency also owned the deed to a 24 square foot plot of land in Greenwood Memorial Park. Records show that the Organization handled the burial of 22 people between 1923 and 1929, many of whom were infants. |
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