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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.
Founded in 2010, the New Braunfels Food Bank is a branch facility of the San Antonio Food Bank. We believe that no child should go to bed hungry, adults should not have to choose between a hot meal and utilities, nor a senior sacrifice medical care for the sake of a meal.
The New Braunfels Food Bank branch evolved from the San Antonio Food Bank’s client-choice pantry program, The Kitchen Table. Established to accommodate growing hunger in the region, The Kitchen Table has offered nutrition education, benefits assistance, children’s programs, senior programs, and financial literacy for years.
The New Braunfels Food Bank branch is supported and structured under the San Antonio Food Bank’s leadership.
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| Saturday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| Sunday: CLOSED |
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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| Saturday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| 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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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.
Need Health Insurance?
Lost Health Insurance?
Have Questions?
How to Enroll
Online
English –healthcare.gov
Spanish – cuidadodesalud.gov
Phone (210) 977-7997
In-Person
Schedule an appointment today.
In-person enrollment is available at this location.
What is Needed to Enroll:
Name, DOB, and SSN of those applying for coverage
Proof of family income
Tax return, check stub, social security benefit, etc.
Proof of Immigration Status
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.
| Monday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| 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 |
| 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.
| Monday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| 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 |
| Saturday: CLOSED |
| Sunday: CLOSED |
Foster A Child In Texas
" You might be temporary in their lives. They might be temporary in yours. But there is nothing temporary about the love or the lesson."
-Tonia Christle
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, and monthly Foster/Adopt Parent Support Group meetings
- 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
TRAINING
Our training takes a comprehensive approach and requires families to complete a total of 40 hours of pre-service training and interactive training hours. Families complete annual training hours to continue their education.
SUPPORT
After a child is placed with a family, the goal is to provide unequaled support for the entire family. Our experienced and professional case managers are committed and provide in-home visits, identifying community resources, and act as the liaison between the family and the CPS caseworker. We also provide services such as Emergency Placement Kits and Project Foster Destiny as an ongoing support.
RECRUITMENT
We strive to find high-quality caregivers for the children we serve. The intended result of recruitment is to find a family who is motivated by love and committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and stable environment for a child. The knowledge and skills of the foster or adoptive parents are critical to the well-being of the children in their care.
How notice are you given to foster a child before the child arrives?
- Emergency Placements can come quickly. I often say that you are like an on-call physician. Once you are licensed you could start receiving calls the day. Planned placements take longer. In each case, your preferences make the determination on how fast children are placed in your home.
Can foster families adopt?
- Yes! Many families are interested in both fostering and adopting. They agree with the agency that the children’s needs come first. In most cases, this means helping prepare children for reunification with their birth family, mentoring the birth parents, or working toward a relative or kinship placement.
- When termination of parental rights is in the children’s best interest and adoption is their plan, then foster parents who have cared for the children will be given the opportunity to adopt. Dual certification of parents to both foster and adopt speeds up the placement process, reduces the number of moves a child makes, and allows relationships to evolve with the initial placement process. Nearly half the adoptions of children in DFPS foster care are by their foster families.
What are the chances statistically that I will be able to adopt my foster child?
- This is always asked and we wish we had a clear answer. When you enter the world of foster care you are working with other humans. We all come with our own baggage, our own assumptions, personalities, etc. Children in care have biological parents and biological family members who are given the chance to step up. Children whose parental rights are terminated and they are placed in your home are ready for adoption
Is there a min/max age for foster parents?
- Must be at least 21-years-old. Max age depends on the health and situation of the child in care.
Join us at the Next Orientation
If you are interested in learning more about becoming foster or foster-to-adopt home, join us at our upcoming orientation. See our website or call for dates and other details.
For the Foster-Adopt Application click here.
On link to the bottom of the application you will find additional links you may find helpful.
For Foster Parent Upcoming Informationals Upcoming Events click here.
To contact us, you can send us a message here,
Or
Write or Call Us:
(210) 245-KIDS (5437)
P.O. Box 129 Marion, TX 78124
What paperwork is needed to adopt/foster?
- To start the process you will need to complete an application, sign a confidentiality form, and complete a background check for everyone in your home that is age 14 years and up.
1. FOSTER/ADOPT BASIC REQUIREMENTS-
The prospective foster/adoptive parents may be single or married and must:
- be at least 21 years of age, financially stable, and responsible mature adults,
- complete an application (staff will assist you, if you prefer),
- share information regarding their background and lifestyle,
- provide relative and non-relative references,
- show proof of marriage and/or divorce (if applicable),
- agree to a home study which includes visits with all household members,
- allow staff to complete a criminal history background check and an abuse/neglect check on all adults in the household, and
- attend free training to learn about issues of abused and neglected children.
- The training provides an opportunity for the family and TruLight127 to assess whether foster care or adoption is best for the family.
- The family may withdraw from the meetings at any time. There is no charge for the meetings.
- Foster/adoptive parents generally train together.
2. ADDITIONAL FOSTER CARE BASIC REQUIREMENTS-
In addition to the basic requirements, foster parents must:
- have adequate sleeping space.
- allow no more than 6 children in the home including your own children or children for whom you provide day care.
- agree to a nonphysical discipline policy.
- permit fire, health and safety inspections of the home.
- vaccinate all pets.
- obtain and maintain CPR/First Aid Certification.
- obtain TB skin testing as required by the local Health Department for household members.
- attend 20 hours or more of training each year
- Complete paperwork required by TruLight127
3. FOSTER PARENTS-
- Provide daily care and nurturing of children in foster care;
- advocate for children in their schools and communities;
- inform the children’s caseworkers about adjustments to the home, school, and community, as well as any problems that may arise, including any serious illnesses, accidents, or serious occurrences involving the foster children or their own families;
- make efforts as team members with children’s caseworkers towards reunifying children with their birth families;
- provide a positive role model to birth families and help children learn life skills.
4. ADOPTIVE PARENTS
- provide permanent homes and a lifelong commitment to children into adulthood;
- provide for the short-term and long-term needs of children;
- provide for children’s emotional, mental, physical, social, educational, and cultural needs, according to each child’s developmental age and growth;
- may become certified as a foster family and accept children who are not legally free for adoption, but whose permanency plan is adoption.
5.Other Requirements/Rules
Will I have to provide a minimum level of income to foster/adopt?
- You will need to supply documentation of income to the Agency.
What are the rules regarding children sharing the same room?
- Same genders in the same room over the age of 5. Four kids in a room as long as there are 40 sq ft per child
Can you keep siblings together?
- YES!!! This is a HUGE need!
What is the wait time to adopt a child?
- No matter how children are placed in your home there is a minimum 6 month monitoring period.
If I have pets will I have to provide vet records?
- Yes, all vaccinations will need to be up-to-date and we will need to have documentation
Will my home be subject to scheduled or random inspections?
- Yes, from Licensing, CPS, and TruLight127. Not all at once and not random every month.
Adoption through Foster Care is very little to no cost. In most cases, children can meet certain criteria for subsidy that covers lawyer and court fees. This subsidy often provides a monthly stipend until age 18.
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones.. the ones at home"
-Mother Teresa
A big part of the heart of TruLight127 is to support children in Kinship Homes.
Trulight’s mission is to care for the hurting children of the world. A lot of what we do is to place children in foster care with families that we have trained to care for their basic needs while also helping them heal from trauma.
Sometimes a child is put into foster care, but then placed with a family member: grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, cousins or close family friends. This is called a Kinship or Fictive Kin Placement.
Sometimes a child’s biological parents are asked by the courts to complete trauma training in order to avoid having their child(ren) placed into foster care.
At TruLight127 Ministries, we want to support families in any way we can. We provide support to both kinship foster placements as well as extensive trauma-informed education to biological parents.
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.
TruLight127 Ministries offers an extensive Trauma Informed Care and TBRI training for biological families and kinship foster placements.
Learn about the subjects covered through this course.
What's included in our TRBI program?
Trauma Training for Biological Families:
TruLight127 Ministries offers an extensive Trauma Informed Care and TBRI training for biological families and kinship foster placements.
The program for biological parents and kinship caregivers is six weeks long and includes follow up case management services to graduates of this training course.
1)CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
Educates and informs the participant on the topic of trauma. The module defines trauma and complex trauma. It educates on the physical, mental, and emotional reactions to traumatic events as well as educating the participant on the long-term effects of trauma on children.
This module introduces the student to the TBRI method as a positive intervention in the lives of children suffering from trauma.
2)TRUST-BASED RELATIONAL INTERVENTION
Defines for the participant exactly what TBRI is and it addresses the importance of building trust and the importance of attachment in infancy.
Module 2 introduces the participant to the term, “Children from hard places” and makes the connection between the effectiveness of the TBRI method and children who have suffered traumatic experiences.
Module two lays the foundation of TBRI by exploring the basic principles of empowering, connecting, and correcting.
3)FELT SAFETY & EMPOWERING PRINCIPLES
Defines “felt safety” and the importance of “felt safety” in the healing process of children overcoming trauma.
Module 3 gives the participant tangible ways to create an environment of felt safety within the home and within the hearts and minds of their children.
It delves more deeply into the principle of empowering and illustrates the importance of empowering our children. It explores the Empowering Strategies through giving definitions and examples of both Physiological and Ecological Strategies that can be utilized to empower children.
4)CONNECTING PRINCIPLES
Introduces the participant to the connecting principles of the TBRI method. It stresses the importance of understanding the different types of attachment in children and the skills of attachment.
It gives the participant important and “real life” ways to connect with and engage their children using TBRI engagement strategies. Module 4 stresses the importance of being present and spending quality time with our children.
5)CORRECTING PRINCIPLES
The Ideal Response: Guides the participants through the IDEAL Response method of correction in TBRI. This module highlights the skills necessary for the method to work. It takes the participant step by step through the process and gives real life scenarios.
The fifth module also goes through a list of family rules that reinforces that fact that all family members are to be honored, respected, and loved.
Requirements:
- Relatives and other people who the child or family have a significant relationship
- Can provide children with stability when they can't live with their birth parents.
FOLLOW UP & CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Each graduate of the Parenting Tender Hearts Program will be assigned a Case Manager who will come to their home and complete a Home Assessment.
The assessment a look into family resources, structure of the home, and will decide how often a Case Manager will need to visit the family.
Case Management Service are available for the family for up to 2 years. We ask that the family engage in the services for a minimum of six months with the children in the home for that period of time.
6)TBRI IN THE REAL WORLD
Overcoming Barriers and Obstacles: Discusses TBRI in the real world. Things go wrong, we have good days and bad, and sometimes we encounter barriers to success in life.
Module 6 also tackles the delicate and sometimes painful discussion regarding trauma in the lives of parents and how that trauma can affect the way that we interact with our children. Module 6 offers insight into ways to improve overall health and a parent and how to heal from past hurts.
The program for biological parents and kinship caregivers is six weeks long and includes follow up case management services to graduates of this training course.
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
TruLight127 Ministries is a 501 (c)(3) foster-to-adopt agency licensed in the State of Texas.
Trulight supports families as much as they can so that the children placed there can stay in a stable family environment.
Trulight127 Ministries supports foster children and foster families by opening Trulight Youth Village, the first emergency shelter for foster kids in Guadalupe County.
It provides specialized training to license foster and adoptive families while offering guidance and support to help foster and kinship families provide a nurturing home for abused or neglected children, empowering and equipping individuals, and getting them the support they need.
Program areas at Trulight127 Ministries
Providing specialized training to license foster and adoptive families.
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Push continues for more ‘kinship families’ to take in related children removed from their homes.
Kinship placements cut down on trauma, allow child to feel connected, safe in a community they know.
That’s why kinship families are strongly encouraged to get licensed, which can also pull in extra benefits.
We are urging others to become kinship families, if that opportunity is presented to them.
Don’t be afraid to step out of the comfort zone.
Even if we’re just a part of his life for a few months, it’s going to all be worth it in the end to know we gave him that chance and that opportunity.
You can reserve your spot for the class by clicking here.
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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| Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
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| Friday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
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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.
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| Tuesday: 5:00 AM - 9:00 PM |
| Wednesday: 5:00 AM - 9:00 PM |
| Thursday: 5:00 AM - 9:00 PM |
| Friday: 5:00 AM - 9:00 PM |
| Saturday: 7:00 AM - 4:00 PM |
| Sunday: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
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.
| Monday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM |
| 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 |
| Saturday: CLOSED |
| Sunday: CLOSED |
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.
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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
| Monday: 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM |
| 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