RMYA provides critical emergency shelter services for runaway, homeless, foster youth, trafficked, and children transitioning from juvenile probation. RMYA is one of only four shelters in the San Antonio/Bexar region providing emergency shelter care. The Bridge Emergency Shelter can provide a safe living environment for up to 90 days.

Our Services:

• On-Boarding Health Check
  Upon arrival, all children are evaluated for medical, dental, and mental health needs. Any needed medical care is provided during their stay with RMYA.
• 24/7 On-Call Clinicians
  On-staff licensed clinicians are on-call to provide crisis intervention services for incoming children.
• Counseling
  The shelter provides children with individual and group counseling services to help them cope with their trauma. RMYA also provides life skills training to give children the basic tools they need to manage their many challenges.
• On-Site Charter School
  All children attend the on-campus school, Stepping Stones Academy, during their stay at the shelter. RMYA also provides a large playground, swings, and basketball court for outdoor exercise.

Ages 5-17.

Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA) provides individual and family counseling, short-term pediatric and adolescent psychiatric services, and low-cost parent education classes for youth and their families.

Assessments may be available, as needed, for temporary and voluntary short-term residential care at RMYA Emergency Shelter Services, where residents have access to psychiatric services.

Counseling Services: We work with families experiencing a variety of behavioral and emotional crises, including but not limited to:

• Parent-child conflicts
• Anxiety
• Substance abuse
• Runaways
• Truancy
• Emotional control issues
• Anger management

We are an approved site for Bexar County Juvenile Probation and the Department of Family and Protective Services mandated counseling.

The RMYA Community Psychiatric Clinic provides short-term psychiatric services in conjunction with child and family counseling for community children and youth (up to age 24) waiting to be seen by a private psychiatrist.

Our counselors partner with psychiatric residents from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, to provide evaluations and follow-up assessments for children coping with mental health issues that could lead to abuse, hospitalization, or the breakdown of the family unit.

RMYA also provides referrals for long-term psychiatric care when necessary.

Our agency offers the Becoming a Love and Logic Parent training course. The seven-week Becoming a Love and Logic Parent program was developed by Jim Fay, Charles Fay, PhD., and Foster W. Cline, M.D., of the Love and Logic Institute, Inc., in Golden, Colorado.

Ages: Children and Families

We offer low or no-cost services

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The TurningPoint Transitional Living program helps youth who have aged out of foster care and other homeless youth by providing a safe place to live, learn, and become productive, empowered members of our community.

The program includes:

• Professional case management
• Weekly counseling
• Job and life skills training
• Educational assistance
• Resource referrals

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Youth 18-24 years old

Roy Maas Youth Alternatives (RMYA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit agency providing comprehensive residential care and counseling services to children needing a safe place to live.

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The campus at Meadowland includes six residential cabins (four for males/two for females), an educational/ recreational complex, a gymnasium and weight room, the Meadowland Charter School, a computer lab, a library, and the Burdick Community Center. Additionally, the campus has a jogging track, several ball fields, basketball courts, and a swimming pool and pool house.

Children placed at Meadowland frequently come from chaotic, unpredictable environments with inconsistent discipline, care, or supervision. Many have a history of abuse and, as a result, have behavioral and emotional problems, which, without intervention, could lead to criminal activities and other destructive behaviors.

The Meadowland Campus accepts male and female children, ages 6-17, who are neglected, abused, abandoned, involved with the juvenile justice system, in crisis, or otherwise in danger.

Some clinical considerations must be reviewed, along with the "fit" of the child into a particular resident group and the RMYA capacity to work with any special needs the child may have.

RMYA's policy does not discriminate in the manner in which it provides services or in the way in which it screens applicants. At no time will a referral be denied admission to the program based on sex, race, color, national origin, political belief, religion, sexual or gender orientation.