Association For Guidance Aid Placement & Empathy

Counseling & psychological services: professional counseling, testing, and support groups are available for children/adolescents, adults, couples and families needing help with a wide range of issues such as depression, anxiety, grief, marital & relationship issues, and behavioral problems. Affordability of services is attained through a sliding scale fee system and the ability to use insurance or eap benefits in many cases, as well as through other special arrangements with employers and a number of churches and schools. Agape is committed to providing professional christian counseling to the community, regardless of financial resources. From july 2024 through june 2025, agape provided 9,864 counseling sessions to 1,496 clients.

Morning star sanctuary domestic violence support and advocacy (mss): morning star sanctuary domestic violence support and advocacy (mss) exists to provide refuge for victims of domestic violence and their children who have fled abusive situations and to help empower them to break the cycle of violence that controls their lives. Through the court advocacy program, mss provides free and confidential services including orders of protection, safety planning and danger assessment to victims of domestic violence. From july 2024 through june 2025, 104 women, 66 children, and 8 men were sheltered with 5,266 bed nights provided. In our court advocacy program we served 505 victims of domestic violence.

Maternity assistance and adoption: case managment is offered to women whose pregnancy has caused additional stress or complications. Agape provides support, access to resources and counseling to assist women in developing an informed plan that will either enable her to parent or to plan for adoption. From july 2024 through june 2025, 24 pregnant women were served in agape's maternity program. One participant in the program chose adoption for her child. Agape assisted with the adoption process for this child along with 15 children in agape's foster care program that the courts deemed eligible for adoption.