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Our Resource Library provides a compilation of helpful resources aimed at helping parents and caregivers navigate the world of autism in San Antonio. Here, you can find a variety of useful materials such as educational materials, support groups, counseling services, and links to other relevant organizations, all tailored to the needs of the autism community in San Antonio.
Even though we have collected the following information and resources for you, These organizations do not receive any direct or indirect endorsement from ACN for their products or services.
Hill Country MHDD counselors are ready to help members of the Uvalde community access whatever assistance they may need, including mental health, medical, financial, or other community resources.
If you are a minor, please have an adult with you when you call.
For more information on Hill Country MHDD Centers, please click on the following links:
Kinship caregivers provide a way for children to stay connected with their family or fictive kin when they cannot live with their birth parents.
- Are you raising someone else’s children?
- Are you looking for support as a caregiver?
We may be able to help!
Big Hearts Raising Kids is a Kinship Program by DePelchin Children’s Center. We provide services in Harris and all surrounding counties that include the following:
- Resources and Referrals: Receive hands-on support to connect to basic needs.
- Parenting Support: Whether their arrival in your home was expected or unexpected, caring for children, and a new generation, can be hard!
- General Support: Connect with our support team and other caregivers.
The New Braunfels Food Bank assists clients with application and renewal assistance for various federal benefits including:
- SNAP
- Adult Medicaid
- Children's Medicaid
- Long-term Care
- NBU Utility Assistance
- WIC
- TANF
- Healthy Texas Women
Click here for more information or to download an application.
For application assistance via telephone, call 830-327-6014.
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Our One-Stop Career Centers offer job seekers employment information, career development training opportunities, life essentials support, and connections to various programs.
Program services include:
- Child Care Services
- Employer Services
- Job Seeker Services
- Veterans Services
- Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Youth Empowerment Services (YES!)
Resources include:
- Jobs KIOSK
- Parking Lot WiFi
- Computer Access
- Career Assessment Tools
Click here or call the number below to get started.
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Our Adaya program helps youths without a permanent placement know they are valued and cherished. Our personnel coaches engage with these young people, not just as therapists, but as partners to help them build attachment and start a journey towards healing. Coaches are going to the youth, wherever their temporary placement is, to ensure they receive the trauma-responsive intervention they need and deserve.
When a placement is identified for these youth, Chosen's staff "follow the child," helping the transition to a family ensuring stability and higher success rates. This essential component is critical to help youth heal in safe, loving, and permanent relationships.
Contact us here.
Chosen's Addy Program offers a comprehensive approach for adoptive parents and caregivers seeking to strengthen family bonds and support children with unique needs. The program focuses on understanding the trauma experienced by children while acknowledging the profound losses they have endured.
Click here to learn more about our process.
Fostering Connections is a program geared toward foster parents, recognizing the unique dynamics and challenges they face. In the child welfare system, simply being involved can be traumatic. At Chosen, we recognize this and are dedicated to helping children and foster families navigate the path to healing.
Click here to contact us.
Families raising other relatives' children never expected to be parenting again. Shifting roles with birth parents and financial hardship add to the challenges. Our team helps you navigate tumultuous waters. We help build bonds of trust. We walk the path of healing together.
Click here to contact us.
Family Promise of Greater New Braunfels is a community response to family homelessness. We exist to support, guide and lift families out of homelessness and into safe housing, gainful employment, and independence.
Representatives from local churches have came together to address the need. Family Promise of Greater New Braunfels (FPGNB) is a partnership of churches that open their doors, classrooms, gyms, and hearts to serve as hospitality centers to families experiencing homelessness, partnering with professional case management and other community resources to offer temporary housing, meals, transportation and loving support.
When a family successfully completes our comprehensive shelter program, they have accomplished a series of steps to continue their journey to long-term self-sufficiency. Accomplishments include:
- Safe Housing
- Permanent, full-time employment
- Safe, reliable child care or after-school care
- Emergency savings fund of $1000+
- A working, realistic budget
- Reliable transportation
Once a family "graduates" and moves into their own home, they transition into A New Lease on Life aftercare program, which includes:
- Professional case management support for one year
- Help with emergent needs
- Life skills workshops (Child care is provided.)
- Peer support of fellow FPGNB alumni, as well as other supportive relationships.
Homeless families with children.
At the CACCC, we use a prevention program called Darkness to Light: Stewards of Children (D2L) that focuses on teaching adults in a community how to keep children safer from sexual abuse. Our trained facilitator is available to help parents, groups, organizations and clubs learn how to better prevent abuse from happening. At every training, adults will be given useful, practical information on how to keep children safer and organizations will learn how to implement policies that will show they take preventing child abuse seriously.
FREE quarterly Darkness to Light Prevention training.
Free.
A home for youth preparing to exit foster care. Residents benefit from targeted support to help them transition to adulthood.
- Support. Through trauma-informed care and Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) staff and counselors help youth heal from trauma and plan for their futures.
- Academic Guidance. Case managers help monitor academic performance and guide youth in preparing for higher education or employment.
- Life Skills. Residents benefit from training and education designed to facilitate independent living. Skills include budgeting, credit planning, resume writing, and interviewing.
- Be aged 15-22 and in the foster care system.
- Be enrolled in (or have completed) high school, a GED course, vocational program, college, university, or technical school.
- Seek, obtain, or continue employment (if not enrolled in an educational program).
- Participate in programs on education, vocational training, employment, and volunteer outreach.
- Be capable of acquiring the skills necessary to become economically self-sufficient.
- Live cooperatively and responsibly with other residents in the program.
Transitional Living Program admission must be initiated by the youth's DFPS caseworker or Child Placing Unit. Authorized personnel should send the State of Texas Common Application and psychological evaluation to the agency intake email.
Here’s how Safe Place works:
Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.
Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).
Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter. If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter.
Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.
This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.
Free
Here’s how Safe Place works:
Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.
Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).
Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter. If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter.
Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.
This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.
Free
Here’s how Safe Place works:
Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.
Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).
Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter. If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter.
Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.
This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.
Free
Our One-Stop Career Centers offer job seekers employment information, career development training opportunities, life essentials support, and connections to various programs.
Program services include:
- Child Care Services
- Employer Services
- Job Seeker Services
- Veterans Services
- Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Youth Empowerment Services (YES!)
Resources include:
- Jobs KIOSK
- Parking Lot WiFi
- Computer Access
- Career Assessment Tools
Click here or call the number below to get started.
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| Thursday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Saturday: CLOSED |
| Sunday: CLOSED |
Our One-Stop Career Centers offer job seekers employment information, career development training opportunities, life essentials support, and connections to various programs.
Program services include:
- Child Care Services
- Employer Services
- Job Seeker Services
- Veterans Services
- Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Youth Empowerment Services (YES!)
Resources include:
- Jobs KIOSK
- Parking Lot WiFi
- Computer Access
- Career Assessment Tools
Click here or call the number below to get started.
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| Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Thursday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
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| Sunday: CLOSED |
TruLight127 provides specialized training and guidance to help you provide a nurturing and stable home for children who have been abused or neglected.
We are always in need of parents and families who can provide:
- Homes for sibling groups of two or more
- Homes for children of all racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds
- Homes for children with behavioral, emotional, or physical special needs
- Homes for teenagers
Why Choose TruLight127?
- A professional case management team to help you through the process and support for you throughout your time with TruLight127
- Experienced trainers who are knowledgeable in the child welfare system and the needs of the children served
- Access to the Shining Light Donation Center at the TruLight127 Office filled with clothing, hygiene products, school supplies, etc.
- Online support and training resources, including a website dedicated to the Foster Care and Adoption program
- On-going annual in-house training
- Opportunities for cultural events such as Kid's Day Out programs, Fall Festival's, Christmas Events, Spring Flings, etc.
24/7 Parent Support for emergency situations - Beautiful training and meeting facilities on the Jonathan's Place campus
A big part of the heart of TruLight127 is to support children in Kinship Homes.
For generations, extended families have played significant roles in rearing children when parents are having a difficult time. This is called Kinship Care by Child Protective Services (CPS). These are relatives and other people who the child or family have a significant relationship can often provide children with stability when they can't live with their birth parents.
Kinship caregivers are not given the same kind of support that foster families are given. They are often left struggling for resources. We want to support that family as much as we can so that the children placed there can stay in a stable family environment. We provide resources, trainings, and often license them so that they can receive the support that they need.
What Are the Benefits of Kinship Care?
- Provides love and care in a familiar setting
- Provides parents with a sense of hope that children will remain connected to their birth families
- Enables children to live with people they know and trust
- Reinforces a child's sense of cultural identity and positive self-esteem
- Helps a child make and sustain extended family connections
- Continues lifelong family traditions and memories
- Supports the child in building healthy relationships within the family
- Supports the child's need for safety and well-being;
- Creates a sense of stability in the life of a child
The Step Forward Program helps clients achieve financial and housing stability through financial assistance paired with goal planning and resources from local community partners.
Services are provided to program participants only. Applications must be submitted and approved.
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Here’s how Safe Place works:
Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.
Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).
Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter. If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter.
Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.
This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.
Safe Place® is a program of National Safe Place Network (NSPN).
Free
Receiving early and regular prenatal care is important. Initial visits can be scheduled as soon as you have a positive pregnancy test. Lasting about two hours, initial visits include a comprehensive health history review, a complete physical exam with PAP and
prenatal lab work.
San Antonio Nurse Midwife follows the same schedule that most physicians follow during the prenatal period. After your initial visit, subsequent 45-minute to one-hour visits will take place every four weeks until 28 weeks, every 2 weeks until 36 weeks, and weekly after 36 weeks until birth. At each visit, the following will be completed/assessed:
-Physical and emotional status
-Vital signs including blood pressure and pulse
-Nutrition
-Urine checked
-Fundal Height
-Fetal Heart Tones and Position
-Lab work as needed
-Prenatal Education
As a partner on your birth journey, I strive to establish a personal relationship with you and your significant other. In order to facilitate this relationship, I encourage family member participation during prenatal visits and the birth.
Click here to make an appointment.
Here’s how Safe Place works:
Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.
Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).
Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter. If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter.
Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.
This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.
Free
Here’s how Safe Place works:
Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.
Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).
Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter. If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter.
Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.
This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.
Free.
Here’s how Safe Place works:
Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.
Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).
Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter. If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter.
Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.
This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.
Free
Here’s how Safe Place works:
Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.
Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).
Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter. If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter.
Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.
This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.
Free
by Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas
As a Parents as Teachers® affiliate, Methodist Healthcare Ministries provides bimonthly personal home visits to families and monthly group connection events focused on parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting, and family well-being.
The program supports parents throughout pregnancy until their children enter school full-time providing health, hearing, vision, and developmental screenings for eligible children using approved screening tools and methods.
The program also connects families to resources and helps them overcome any barriers to accessing those resources.
English and Spanish visitations are available.
A complimentary meal is provided during monthly group connection events.
Transportation assistance is available.
The program is available in Bexar and Guadalupe counties.
Enrollment is free.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) welcomes all Veterans, families, caregivers, and survivor beneficiaries, including diverse gender identities and sexual orientations. “LGBTQ+” refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identities. The “+” sign captures identities beyond LGBTQ, including but not limited to questioning, pansexual, asexual, agender, gender diverse, nonbinary, gender-neutral, and other identities. LGBTQ+ Veterans have faced stigma and discrimination, which can affect health. As a healthcare institution, we need to make sure that LGBTQ+ Veterans know that they are welcome at Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
There is an LGBTQ+ Veteran Care Coordinator (LGBTQ+ VCC) at every facility to help you get the care you need. VHA policies require that your health care is delivered in an affirming and inclusive environment and that VHA employees respect your identity. Contact the LGBTQ+ VCC at your nearest facility.
VA Health Care includes, among other services:
- Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy
- Substance use/alcohol treatment
- Tobacco use treatment
- Treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) and PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) for Veterans at risk for HIV.
- Intimate partner violence reduction and treatment of after effects
- Military Sexual Trauma screening and treatment of after effects
- Suicide prevention services. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, contact the Veterans Crisis Line to receive free, confidential support and crisis intervention available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Dial 988 then Press 1, text 838255 or chat online at VeteransCrisisLine.net/Chat.
- Whole Health
- Cancer screening, prevention and treatment
- Virtual Mental Health Care: Veterans can connect with a VA mental health provider through a computer or mobile device from the comfort of their homes or at their nearest VA health facility.
- Infertility: VA is committed to helping Veterans navigate challenges that may arise from issues with fertility and the conception of a child.
To view the services provided for LGBTQ+ Veterans, click here.
We are the world's leading research and educational center of excellence on PTSD and traumatic stress.
PTSD is a mental health problem that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening or traumatic event. If symptoms last more than a few months, it may be PTSD. The good news is that there are effective treatments.
- Understand PTSD: Learn about symptoms, types of trauma, common reactions, and related problems.
- Treatment Options: Read about talk therapies & medications proven to help people with PTSD.
- Get Help Now: Find out about care near you and self-help resources for managing symptoms.
- For Family & Friends: Help your loved ones with PTSD and find the support you need for yourself.
To learn more about the National Center for PTSD, click here.
Additional Hotline Numbers:
- DoD Safe Helpline: 1 (877) 995-5247
- Military Crisis Line: 988, press 1.
- Veteran Crisis Line: 988, press 1.
- National Call Center for Homeless Veterans: 1 (877) 424-3838 (4AID.VET)
- Wounded Warrior Resource Center (Mos): 1 (800) 342-9647
These clinics were established to provide primary care to the Veteran in their community.
The South Texas Veterans Health Care System (STVHCS) continually seeks to improve our delivery of health care services and is excited about our existing Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) Program. STVHCS contracts with community providers to provide primary care to Veterans closer to their home or work.
Please call STVHCS Telecare at 1-888-686-6350 for more information on locations, assignments, appointments and services.
Your Primary Care Provider will provide you with:
- Annual Physical Exam (Not limited to just the annual physical exam)
- Continuous Primary Care
- Pneumonia Vaccine
- Routine Labs and X-rays
- Prescriptions
In addition to the primary care services you receive from this clinic, the full array of the VA medical services (including specialty tests and consultations) will be made available through the STVHCS VA Medical Center.
These clinics are by enrollment only and interested Veterans should call our Telephone Liaison Care Nurse Program at 1-888-686-6350 for further information and enrollment. Please do not call or visit these clinics for an appointment until you have called to enroll and received a confirmation of enrollment letter and clinic brochure.
Veterans and their families.
Call TTY if you have hearing loss 800-799-4889
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| Tuesday: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
| Wednesday: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
| Thursday: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
| Friday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM |
| Saturday: CLOSED |
| Sunday: CLOSED |
Here’s how Safe Place works:
Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.
Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).
Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter. If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter.
Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.
This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.
Free
Here’s how Safe Place works:
Step One – A young person enters a Safe Place and asks for help.
Step Two – The site employee finds a comfortable place for the youth to wait while they call the licensed Safe Place agency. For the greater San Antonio area that is Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA).
Step Three – An RMYA staff member will talk with the youth to get more information and explain that an SAPD officer can escort them to the RMYA Bridge Emergency shelter. If the child is agreeable, the RMYA staff will contact SAPD to transport the youth to the shelter.
Step Four – Once at the Bridge, direct-care staff and counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff ensures the youth and their families receive the help and professional services they need.
This program is for youth under the age of 18 in need of immediate help and safety.
Free