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Healy Murphy Center was chosen for United Way's "Tour of the Week" for the week of November 7, 2005.

Services & Programs for Teenage Parents

Healy Murphy Center provides compassionate service to youth-in-crisis by focusing on individualized education in a non-traditional setting, early childhood development, and essential support services. Healy Murphy is for:

• Any high school aged youth who, for any reason, is not successful in a traditional school environment.
• Any teenager who needs additional services such as childcare, parenting shills training, and/or life shills training.
• Any high school student who needs help in basic courses to complete high school or a G.E.D.

Located at the corner of Highway 281 and Nolan Street, Margaret Mary Healy Murphy built St. Peter Claver Academy as a boarding school for African-American youth. To staff the school with dedicated teachers, she established the Sisters of the Holy Spirit and Mary Immaculate and recruited young women into the order.

The Sisters reorganized the program in 1970, and directed their services to pregnant teenagers, high school dropouts, and other students having difficulties in the regular school environment. The newly named Healy Murphy Center was the first accredited alternative high school in Texas.

Any student can complete his or her high school education and graduate from Healy Murphy, catch up on high school credits and then return to his or her previous high school, or work toward a G.E.D.

Services & Programs:

• High school diploma program
• G.E.D. program
• Reading skills program
• Education and career guidance
• Job placement assistance
• Counseling, testing, and referral services
• Self-paced, individualized instruction
• Small classes
• Flexible schedules for working students
  
  Phone: 210-223-2944
  E-mail: holyspirit@shsp.org