Habilitative Homes (Hab Homes) is a licensed Residential Treatment Center providing 24-hour care to children with severe intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, often due to a pervasive developmental disorder such as autism.

Hab Homes provides an enriched, predictable, supportive environment in which the children can learn and grow in normal, healthy ways developing skills in self-care, self-direction, self-discipline, self-awareness, responsibility for decisions and choices, and building skills necessary for living as independently as possible as well-adjusted, productive adults in our society.

At Hab Homes, the environment, the programming, and the staffing are always child-centered.

Our Foster Care and Adoption Program in San Antonio and surrounding counties licenses and trains families to open their homes and hearts to children ready to live in a family setting, both through short-term foster care and forever adoption. We are creating forever families!

SJRC Texas is looking for individuals and families to open their homes and hearts to children in foster care and adoption. Becoming a foster or adoptive parent is a great way to help children in need, give back and strengthen the community.

Foster families are individuals or families that provide a safe and loving place for foster children to live. They provide a normal living environment, help children build self-esteem, learn social skills and provide opportunities to create happy childhood memories. You also have the opportunity to give a child a forever home, through adoption.

Adoption is the goal for many children placed in foster care. The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) requires all foster children to be placed in a foster home for a minimum of 6-months before they are eligible for adoption. SJRC Texas works with foster-to-adopt families during this time to prepare them for the adoption and is there every step of the way to guide the families through to the consummation of the adoption.

There are also many other ways to support our amazing children and their foster families. You can help to spread the word about our program, become trained and licensed to provide Respite Care or babysitting for our foster families or volunteer to provide other needed help and support to our foster families.

The Parents as Teachers (PAT) Program at SJRC Texas provides the information, support, and resources families need to help their children develop during the crucial early years of life.

Through individualized home visits, learn how to capture the teachable moments in everyday life.

Who qualifies? Any family with a child kinder age or younger.

Our Foster Care and Adoption Program in San Antonio and surrounding counties licenses and trains families to open their homes and hearts to children ready to live in a family setting, both through short-term foster care and forever adoption. We are creating forever families!

SJRC Texas is looking for individuals and families to open their homes and hearts to children in foster care and adoption. Becoming a foster or adoptive parent is a great way to help children in need, give back and strengthen the community.

Foster families are individuals or families that provide a safe and loving place for foster children to live. They provide a normal living environment, help children build self-esteem, learn social skills and provide opportunities to create happy childhood memories. You also have the opportunity to give a child a forever home, through adoption.

Adoption is the goal for many children placed in foster care. The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) requires all foster children to be placed in a foster home for a minimum of 6-months before they are eligible for adoption. SJRC Texas works with foster-to-adopt families during this time to prepare them for the adoption and is there every step of the way to guide the families through to the consummation of the adoption.

There are also many other ways to support our amazing children and their foster families. You can help to spread the word about our program, become trained and licensed to provide respite care or babysitting for our foster families or volunteer to provide other needed help and support to our foster families.

The Adoption Alliance is a 501c3 non-profit organization which is licensed to provide adoptions services in the State of Texas.

We can assist birth parents who are interested in making an adoption plan for their unborn or born children. Counseling is available during the pregnancy and afterwards. We can assist with housing, groceries, utilities, cell phone service, laundry, clothing, personal hygiene and maternity related transportation.

If a birth mother does not have Medicaid, we can assist her with the application and refer her to an OB doctor.

Birth parents are able to select the adoptive family for their child and keep in touch with them if they desire.

Birth mothers who are seeking to make an adoption plan for their child must provide a proof of pregnancy.

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Services Offered
Our expert care providers offer care in the following services.

• Birth Control
• HIV Services
• Men's Health Care
• Morning-After Pill (Emergency Contraception)
• Pregnancy Testing & Services
• Primary Care
• STD Testing, Treatment & Vaccines
• Transgender Hormone Therapy
• Women's Health Care

Call 210-736-2262 for an appointment.

With or without insurance, you can always come to us for your health care.

There are many children, right in our communities, in need of a forever home. EmberHope Youthville is dedicated to helping these children find a family who will love and cherish them for the rest of their lives. Together, we can make a difference in a child’s life. We are currently licensed to provide foster and adoption services to interested families. We are also licensed to service children with Primary Medical Needs (PMN).

Additional benefits for Texas foster parents, Mileage reimbursement and Initial clothing reimbursement.

Adults with developmental disabilities can choose to live in a foster home with a family member or other individual as their foster care provider.

RMI contracts with the foster care provider to assist with daily living skills, personal care, transportation, and other activities that allow the client to live as independently as possible in a safe and supportive environment.

To apply to be a Foster Care Provider contact Manny Vela.

Funding for foster care is covered by the Home and Community-Based Services (HSC) Medicaid program.

Individuals who do not qualify or are waiting for HCS funding may pay privately to live in a foster home.

Casey Family Programs works directly with children and families to develop and demonstrate effective, practical solutions to safely reduce the need for foster care, improve well-being, and secure safe and lifelong families for every single child in our care.

Our services include:

• Prevention
• Foster care
• Family reunification
• Young adult transition
• Kinship care
• Other permanency practices

Family law issues are uniquely personal and complex. Having an experienced lawyer on your side protects you and your children.

Our family law services:

Child support involves a great deal of financial information and math work. If you miscalculate or fail to find the right information, your children may be receiving far less than they are entitled to.

Divorce can be the most complex area of family law, especially if it involves children and/or real estate. Speak with an experienced family law firm like ours to see how we can help you navigate through a divorce.

Motion to Enforce If your ex is refusing to comply with a court order (by not paying child support or violating your visitation rights), then you will need to bring this to the attention to the court with a motion to enforce.

Adoption Adults and minors alike can be adopted. An adoption grants legal parenthood over the person being adopted. This is emotionally priceless, and also legally important for inheritance and other purposes.

Name Change Texas imposes few restrictions on how you can change your name, but changing your name is not as simple as the stroke of a pen. As such, it is best to have the assistance of an experienced family law attorney, who has the latest legal forms and knows the rules of civil procedure.

Child Support / Visitation There is little as precious to us as the time we spend with our children. With an experienced negotiator, you can maximize the amount of time that you can spend with your little ones.

CPS Litigation If Texas suspects that children are being abused or neglected, it can seize them and then try to permanently terminate the parent-child relationship. 

If Texas has taken your children or other minors and you want to be involved, contact an attorney to better understand the process and what you can do to help.

Marriage Marrying someone is one of the most important decisions you can make in life. As such, it never hurts to consult with a family attorney to discuss your marriage plans, consider premarital counseling, review any contracts you are signing for your marriage ceremony, and/or draft a premarital agreement to make sure that your marital vows truly mean something.

Fees vary depending on service.

Foster and adoptive families need resources and strong support systems. This ministry exists to equip God’s people to come alongside adoptive and foster families through prayer, care, and service.

We are committed to serving local and international orphans. We come together to ensure that adopted/foster children and their families are supported and equipped to thrive. Our ministry includes mentors, meals, transportation, respite, babysitters, support families, links to community organizations like CASA (Child Advocates of San Antonio).

Families who foster or have adopted.

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Services Offered
Our expert care providers offer care in the following services.

• Birth Control
• HIV Services
• Men's Health Care
• Morning-After Pill (Emergency Contraception)
• Pregnancy Testing & Services
• Primary Care
• STD Testing, Treatment & Vaccines
• Transgender Hormone Therapy
• Women's Health Care

Call 210-674-2222 to book your appointment. Health center staff can also answer any questions you may have.

Insurance & Payments
Everyone deserves affordable health care. If you're concerned about cost, you may qualify for low- or no-cost services. With or without insurance, you can always come to us for health care.

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Planned Parenthood is one of the nation’s leading providers of high-quality, affordable health care, and the nation’s largest provider of sex education. With or without insurance, you can always come to us for your health care.

Services Offered
Our expert care providers offer care in the following services. Learn more about what services are offered, what to expect, and pricing.

• Birth Control
• HIV Services
• Men's Health Care
• Morning-After Pill (Emergency Contraception)
• Pregnancy Testing & Services
• Primary Care
• STD Testing, Treatment & Vaccines
• Transgender Hormone Therapy
• Women's Health Care

Call 24/7

Click here to book an appointment.

Insurance & Payments
Everyone deserves affordable health care. With or without insurance, you can always come to us for health care.

Thank you for your gift of any amount! 1HOPE’s mission is to find foster and forever homes for abused and neglected children where they can be loved, nurtured, and provided with educational opportunities that contribute to their future success.

Join us and become a Defender. Defenders answer a call from the Lord to serve children in foster care through prayer and recurring monthly donations. 

For $30 a month or more, you can be a 1HOPE Defender and help provide forming helmets, braces and orthodontia, additional therapy, diapers, and medical expenses. Defenders’ gifts also contribute to training and equipping foster parents with the knowledge and skills needed to lovingly parent traumatized children for the glory of God.

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Church Partners

At 1HOPE for Kids, we partner with local churches in our region to raise and support foster families. Churches host special trainings, family events, information meetings, and faith-based communities for our foster parents and their children. 

If your church is interested in learning more about being on a mission to foster children in your city, we would love to hear from you. Please fill out this form and our Director of Partner Engagement will reach out to you.

Click here to view a Church Partnership video 

Community Partners

Our 1HOPE Community Partners play a vital role in helping children in foster care thrive. Our partners support opening foster homes, sponsor events for kids in care, provide supplies for events, and fund specific medical needs. 

If your organization is interested in learning more about serving the community’s most vulnerable children, we would love to hear from you. Please fill out this form and our Director of Partner Engagement will reach out to you.

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Understanding Foster Care

When children can’t safely live at home, the court can give temporary legal possession to Child Protective Services (CPS). CPS assigns a case worker to the children and then the immediate goal is to find a safe home for the children to live while the biological parents work to get their rights back.

These temporary places could be:

• Foster family homes
• Residential group care facilities
• Facilities overseen by another state agency

Foster care is meant to be temporary until the parents demonstrate they can safely care for their children. However, it can become permanent if the court determines parental rights should be terminated and the children become legally free for adoption.

Foster parents are typically the natural choice for the permanency provided through adoption. But it's an uncertain road that you must be prepared to travel.

1HOPE is Ready to Help

We see the need and we will partner with you to answer the call. Through 1HOPE’s training and verification of families, we can place children in your safe, loving home. Knowing that God “sets the lonely into families” (Psalm 68:6), 1HOPE feels called to provide foster care services to kids in crisis by:

• Recruiting, training, and verifying foster families
• Facilitating excellent matches of children and families
• Providing continuing education and support for foster families
• Helping develop care communities to support each 1HOPE foster family
• Assisting area churches in developing Foster/Adopt Ministries

Missional Opportunity

Foster families are, in effect, local missionaries. By accepting a child into their home, they also open their door to caseworkers, CASA volunteers, birth families, therapy team members, school teachers, medical professionals, and others.

They have the opportunity to share the tangible love of Christ in hurting places. By ministering as foster/adopt families, you are contributing to the sharing of the gospel of Jesus Christ -- the one HOPE of the world!

“My heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved”
                                    ~ Romans 10:1

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University has a network of support for foster and adoptive families, no matter where they are in that process.

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.

Parents who have been separated from their children need support to create a stable environment. By walking the path of healing together, Chosen empowers families to build trust. Home can become a place of safety, security, and hope.

To contact us, click here.

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.

To contact us, click here.

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.

To contact us click here.

Volunteer

We are looking for more incredible team members to be a part of something amazing.

Thank you for your interest in volunteering with us! We could not exist without our volunteers, who we lovingly refer to as Vaultkeepers! Vault is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and 1st/3rd Saturdays from 10am-1pm. We are located at 16120 College Oak, Ste 103, San Antonio.

A typical shift will include sorting and hanging clothing, inspecting and organizing donations, accepting donations, greeting and helping foster parents “shop” – some shifts we are very busy, and other shifts are very quiet….however, we will always have a job for you!

Kidkeepers, are volunteers who help supervise children during our KidZone Play Days. This is a high energy and active opportunity on Wednesdays from 9:30am to 11:30am. The goal of these play days is for the caregivers to be able to connect with each other and our volunteers keep their kids safe and engaged in play in our sensory gym area. 

To sign up to be a VaultKeeper or KidKeeper, click on one of the buttons below. 

Click here to become a Vaultkeeper

Click here to become a Kidkeeper

Donate

We can’t do it without you. Thank you for your willingness to support Vault Fostering Community. Your donation will help foster families throughout our community support those who are most vulnerable among us.

Vault Fostering Community is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit under EIN 46-5612227.  All donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable under the law.

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We look forward to helping as you walk through your foster care or kinship journey.  If you need items we can provide, please complete the following form.

We give items to active foster families within the first 60 days of placement and kinship caregivers every 6 months. If you have any questions, please call us at (800) 446-0796.

Please read our policies, terms and conditions before filling out this form.

• We serve families that are actively fostering
• We help foster families in the first 60 days of a placement
• We serve kinship and safety plan placements
• We serve the Grandparents Raising Grandkids community (with referral)

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Providence Place facilitates two types of adoption:

1. Private Infant Adoption where the birth mother chooses the family and together they make a mutual plan to continue contact with the family and their baby after the adoption. Families may live anywhere in the state of Texas.

2. Foster Care Adoption which places children 0-17 years old who are already in the care of DFPS (Department of Family and Protective Services). Families fostering and adopting through the DFPS program must live in or around San Antonio.

Families interested in adopting through Providence Place must meet the following criteria:

• Be between 21 and 65 years old.
• Have a high school diploma/GED equivalent.
• Financially stable & insured with sufficient funds to take on the cost of an additional child.
• Have safe and reliable transportation.
• Be in good physical health with a clean criminal background.
• Emotionally and mentally healthy and mature.
• Must attend required orientation, preservice and annual trainings.
• Must agree to abide by the child adoption expectations of the state of Texas.
• Must agree to refrain from corporal punishment and report all serious incidents.

Served Children:

• Private Adoption: 0-3 years of age.
• TDFPS Foster & Adoption: 0-17 years of age.
• We also license Transitional Living Foster Homes that serve young adults 18-22 years of age.

Service area:

• Providence Place serves DFPS verified homes located within the 75 mile radius surrounding Providence Place located at 6487 Whitby Road, San Antonio.
• Families interested in our Private Adoption Program may live anywhere in the state of Texas.

This group is for individuals who are considering to foster or adopt, either locally or internationally, and for families who have been through the adoption process. Our goal is to provide information about adoption funding through the ABBA Fund and The Chosen Marathon, to connect you with others who have used these resources successfully, and encourage you in your personal process of adoption.

A Child Needs You Today. Children outnumber available foster homes 44 to 1. The need for foster homes in Bexar County to help children heal from abuse and neglect is at a critical level. If you have thought about being a foster care parent, now is the time to do it. Becoming a foster parent is one of the most difficult but most rewarding jobs a person can do. A foster parent provides love and support to a child in need.

The first priority for children removed from their home is to place them with a loving family. Our foster care program is licensed to recruit and train families to become foster care parents. Foster families are provided with wrap-around services, including case management, trauma-informed care training, therapeutic and recreational services. These services are offered to ensure a successful placement.

If you are interested in becoming a foster parent, please fill out this information request form. One of our foster care case managers will contact you. You can call also call (210) 659-1901 for more information. If you are ready to apply, please complete the Foster Parent Application and submit your application here.  Click here for the Application.

For more information about our foster home and Foster Care Program in San Antonio, call (210) 945-1537.

To become a foster parent, you must meet the following criteria:

• Be enthusiastic and committed to working with children in crisis who need out of home care.
• Be a responsible, mature adult of at least 21 years old.
• Be physically and emotionally healthy.
• Be financially self-sufficient.
• Be committed to working with traumatized children.
• Have a reliable, registered, and insured automobile.
• Pass a criminal history, domestic violence history and abuse database check. All members of the family 14 years and older must submit to a FBI fingerprint screening
• Participate in pre-service training, including Orientation, PRIDE (Parent Resource for Information, Development and Education), Behavior Management (SAMA), Psychotropic Medication and CPR/First Aid.
• All family members agree to participate in extensive interviews and a comprehensive home assessment.

The Great Oaks Foster & Adopt Ministry believes that we are Called to step into the Foster Crisis with love and radical hospitality.
There are many ways we can serve the children and families that are impacted by the Foster Care System.

Foster & Adopt Info Meeting
Stay tuned for our next info meeting where you can find out how you can become a certified babysitter, support foster families in our community, or start on the journey to fostering or adopting a child in your family.

Whatever God is calling you to step into, our FAM ministry is here to educate, equip, and encourage you to give your best yes to Jesus.

Click here to learn more about needs in our community 

Our Mission, The Holy Trinity Respect Life Ministry fosters respect and protection for the sanctity and dignity of all human life from the moment of conception to a natural death by lovingly promoting the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church regarding practices such as abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and capital punishment.

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