The Pathways Youth Program provides interactive, educational enrichment activities that emphasize art, music, and literacy in an environment of cooperative learning. The program is offered Monday through Friday from 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM to children over the age of 6. During this time Resident Coordinators assist youth with their homework. After homework is completed, youth participate in a structured educational activity. These activities reinforce math, science, reading, and creative thinking while incorporating art, music, and cooking.

In the summer, hours are extended and additional programs and field trips are added. Summer programming differs from year to year because, unlike traditional summer camp where children are grouped with youngsters of the same age, ACG children work together cooperatively in groups that frequently span many ages. This experience more closely replicates the experience these children have in their home environment where siblings and neighborhood friends come from many age groups.

This program is open to the public.

Free

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at Kingsborough Middle School

The Salvation Army, San Antonio Mission Corps is one of three Salvation Army Churches in San Antonio.

Located on the south side of town, Mission Corps hosts worship services, Sunday school classes, women's fellowship meetings, children's programs, and other meetings and programs every week.

The Mission Corps gym and game room provide a safe environment for youth to hang out and have fun.

Our Summer Meals For Kids campaign aims to fill the summer meal gap by providing no-cost nutritious meals, groceries, and snacks for children over the summer. When kids eat great, they can play great!

Kids 18 and under are eligible to access no-cost summer meals from any of the Summer Meal sites.

Children do not need to be enrolled in a specific San Antonio Food Bank program to receive a meal. 

Goals of the FAYS program is to help youth and families develop skills that will empower them to deal effectively with the challenges of depression, suicidal ideations, truancy, delinquent behavior and family conflict.

Services are FREE and include:

• Family, individual and group counseling
• Crisis intervention
• Education and support groups for parents and youth that include parenting skills and stress management
• Referrals, resources and case management
• Child abuse prevention training

We Specialize In:

• Strengthening and stabilizing families
• Helping families to develop resilience
• Providing youth and families with tools that will increase coping skills and family cohesion

• Must reside in a county of service and have a child age 6 to 18 who is still enrolled in school.
• To begin receiving services, click here to fill out form.
• Free child care and transportation assistance available.

Call now to find out how we can help.

Free

The PAL program provides services to youth aging out of the foster care system to expand their skills and knowledge; strengthen their self-confidence; create healthy community relationships, and ultimately learn self-guidance.

Our programs provide services to help with:

• accessing education and vocational services.
• finding employment.
• accessing medical services.
• obtaining housing.
• establishing relationships that improve outcomes in the transition to adult life.

Texas provides the following benefits to youth when they move from foster care to adulthood:

• Transitional Living Allowance
• Tuition and Fee Waiver

In order to receive the following benefits, youth must remain in state conservatorship (in-care) until the 18th birthday.

• Aftercare Room and Board Assistance
• Transitional Medicaid
• Texas Education and Training Voucher Program (ETV)
• Reimbursable Expenses

Click here for more information about PAL Events and Circles of Support.

PAL provides transition services to foster youth and alumni from ages 17 to 21 in order to better prepare young adults for emancipation.

Our workshops provide real-life practice opportunities for youth who seek positive relationships and encourage them to maintain a healthy network of peer support.  

Program benefits include:

• Paid Training - Weekly stipends of $187.84 for up to 7 weeks
• Daily workshop meals and snacks
• One-on-one mentorship with an Advocate
• Transportation and childcare assistance
• Career Exploration and Guidance
• Gift cards and other incentives

This program is exclusively for current and former foster youth (ages 16-23).

Enrollment Days occur every 2nd Tuesday of the month at our Transition Center.

Any current or former Foster Youth (16-23yrs old) who is interested joining our program is encouraged to attend.

On Enrollment Days youth will be able to walk-in and meet with a member of our team to answer any questions and complete registration.

We will be playing a movie and will have food to anyone who comes in from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM.

We hope that our Enrollment Days will allow time for youth get to know the ConnectED Team and what we have to offer!

• Current or Former Foster Youth, ages: 16-23.
• Free food, drinks, and a movie while you enroll!

Click here for more information.

The Graduation Project 

Youths who are graduating but have difficulty in getting all the “trappings” of graduation can get assistance from “The Graduation Project”.  

If funds are limited or have run out through PAL (Preparation for Adult Living), YTIA can help purchase cap & gown and announcements, Class ring, invitations, and photographs for youths graduating from high school.

Other items are approved on a case-by-case basis (to include Prom essentials). Just ask your caseworker to get in touch with us or click on the link below.

Each year, YTIA is pleased to offer assistance to youths desiring to graduate in the form of cap and gown, ring, invitations, etc.  

Typically, a request will come from a youth's caseworker but it can also come from the youth.  A request for assistance can be sent to [email protected], by sending a Contact through this website (www.ytia.org), or by completing THE? GRADUATION PROJECT APPLICATION and mailing it to us at Post Office Box 29256, San Antonio, Texas  78229.  As a general rule, the youth should attempt to obtain assistance from his/her PAL worker first but YTIA is always available as an additional resource.

Youth:  

Would you like to be a lifeguard or work in a daycare?  Or, how about working in food service or food manufacturing?  

Many School Districts offer Adult Continuing Education (Northside ISD offers classes to people 16 and older) and in those programs are short-courses on CPR, food preparation and other specialty courses.  

Why not get a jump on the competition by having a certification or extra knowledge about a particular field before applying for the job?  

Find a class that you are interested in through your local School District, send us an email about why you want to take that class, and we may pay for your attendance with a “Quick Start Scholarship”. 

Our Summer Meals For Kids campaign aims to fill the summer meal gap by providing no-cost nutritious meals, groceries, and snacks for children over the summer. When kids eat great, they can play great!

Kids 18 and under are eligible to access no-cost summer meals from any of the Summer Meal sites.

Children do not need to be enrolled in a specific San Antonio Food Bank program to receive a meal.

Communities In Schools programs surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Our evidence-based approach, adapted to meet each community’s unique needs, is the basis for our success.

Basic Needs: A student cannot focus in the classroom if he or she is hungry, cold or tired, or cannot see the board. Site coordinators see to it that students' basic needs are met each day.

Enrichment: Our Site coordinators enroll students in a wide variety of after-school and summer programs, field trips and youth conferences to help them gain experience that is essential to meeting college and career goals.

Academic Assistance: Our site coordinators work hard to ensure that students have the resources to progress academically. From providing students with tutors to finding and creating quiet spaces where students can study, we do whatever it takes to create an optimal learning environment for our students.

Life Skills: Through one-on-one workshops, team building, and guest speakers, we work with students to develop social-emotional learning, character education, social skills building, and conflict resolution.

Behavioral Interventions: Many of our students face and overcome difficult obstacles in their lives. However, their survival skills aren’t always effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Our program teaches students positive ways to cope with anger, conflict resolution, and other strategies to keep them focused on school.

Family Engagement: Site coordinators connect families with counselors and social workers to make sure that home is a healthy, nurturing environment where a student can feel safe.

This program is for students at Highland Forest Elementary.

Troop 444 is the Boy Scout troop chartered by St. Pius X Catholic School. We are a Boy Led Organization following the Patrol Method of Scouting focusing on living the values of the Boy Scout Oath and Boy Scout Law.

Boy Scouting is available to boys who have earned the Arrow of Light Award and are at least 10 years old or have completed the fifth grade and are at least 10, or who are 11, but not yet 18 years old.

Contact the church office at (210) 824-0139 for more information.

Cub Scouting is part of the Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), available to boys and girls from first through fifth grade, or 7 to 11½ years of age and their families.

Its membership is the largest of the three BSA divisions (Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, and Venturing).

Cub Scouting is part of the worldwide Scouting movement and aims to promote character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness. We serve kids from around our area. 

Grades: 1-5.

For more information please call the Church Office at 210-824-0139 and we will help you get in contact with our Cub Scout Group.

CYO Sports is a parish-based program open to all children and adolescents, regardless of race, religion, national origin, family, or economic status.

It serves over 13 thousand children and adolescents annually in sixty athletic associations with the help of over five thousand adult volunteers.

Our mission is to offer all youth sports and recreation programs, emphasizing friendly competition through good sportsmanship modeled by adult participants. 

To invite all participants, Catholic and otherwise, both youth and adults, to share in the life of their church and faith community.

Sports:

• Fall - Flag Football, Soccer, Volleyball
• Winter - Basketball
• Spring- Baseball, Softball, T-Ball, and Track

Click here to register online.

Click here for more information.

There is something about playing the game of baseball that lights up youngsters’ eyes, but for children facing mental and physical challenges that opportunity can often be a difficult first step. The Miracle League gives these children the opportunity to get out in the sunshine and enjoy playing the game of baseball in its purest form.

For Registration form, click here.

Workshops focus on Education, Employment, Personal Living, Health and Safety, and Support

What are Movin' On Workshops?

Unconventional, interactive workshops that encourage  youths ages 13 - 19 years of age to "think" and develop skills while having fun.  Youth are taught to use the skills that they do not even realize they have to solve real world issues and deal with challenges that they will face after leaving foster care.

YTIA recognizes that youth learn in a variety of ways and that preparing to leave foster care begins when you enter foster care and that is why our Movin' On Workshops are:

• Tailored to meet youths where they are in life
• Divided into three categories based on the youths age and/or ability
• Can be created specifically for the youths needs
• Focus on specific categories of life skills
• Have an emphasis on preventing and /or mitigating legal effects

Workshops are divided into three categories:

• Get Ready - Designed for youth 13 - 15 years of age.  
• Transitioning Out - Designed for youth 16 - 18 years of age. 
• 18 and Free - Designed for youth 18 and older who want to know what it's really like once you "age out of the system"  or who have "aged out of the system" and need help making it on their own.

"We must Pray, Plan, Prepare, and Practice in order to Grow so you can Go!"

For over 60 years, St. Pius X has maintained a long-standing tradition of love, education, moral development.

Ages: Pre-K - 8th grade.

Click here to schedule a tour.

Click here for tuition rates.

The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young boys to make ethical and moral choices by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.

Troop 405 meets from 7:00- 8:30 PM in the St. Luke Catholic School Cafeteria on each month's first, second, and third Tuesday.

We conduct monthly campouts for the Scouts in Troop 405, whereby they learn to appreciate the outdoors and work on various rank advancements and survival skills. 

The group meets in the St Luke Catholic School Cafeteria.

Contact Ino Badillo, Scoutmaster, at 210-485-9686 or [email protected] for more information.

C.Y.O’s mission is to offer all youth sports and recreation programs emphasizing friendly competition through good sportsmanship, “modeled” by adult participants. C.Y.O. invites all participants, Catholic and otherwise, youth and adults, to share in the life of their church and faith community.

C.Y.O. Sports is a parish-based program open to all children and adolescents, regardless of race, religion, national origin, family, or economic status. We minister and teach over 600 children annually in 5 athletic sports with the help of over 100 adult volunteers. We are always looking for volunteers in various areas, such as coaches, ministers, and board members (responsible for organizing, funding, and overseeing the ministry as a whole).

The Girl Scouts is a spiritual-based organization providing outreach and service to the St. Luke Catholic community and beyond. Troops are formed as early as Kindergarten and stay together through the 8th grade.

On occasion, some troops have continued providing service to the community through their high school years. Troops are led by an adult troop leader and one or more assistant/co-leaders.

Meetings are usually held after school.

Grades: K - 8th grade.

To join or volunteer, please contact the school office at (210) 434-2011.

Quality out-of-school (OST) time programs like Academic Achievers reduce the number of school-aged children who become involved with negative behaviors and promote academic success. SA Youth’s Academic Achievers program takes place after school and during the summer for youth between the ages of 5 and 13.

Our site locations operate four to five hours during the school year and up to ten hours over the summer and select school holidays. SA Youth provides a safe place, caring adults, and positive youth development programs during the out-of-school time hours when destructive and other risky behaviors can occur.

SA Youth's Out-of-School Time Program Academic Achievers provides a structured, safe, and supervised place for learning and social interaction. 

PREVENTION PROGRAM

SA Youth’s Academic Achievers Program provides year-round positive youth development programs during non-school hours. We offer an array of programming that focus on the academic achievement, character development, and healthy lifestyles of San Antonio’s youth. Our site locations exist to keep children out of trouble, and engaged in educational activities.

PROGRAMS SERVICES

Our youth development services include:

• Academic and homework support
• STEM activities
• Art and music activities
• Nutrition education
• Physical fitness and education
• Field trips (summer programming only)
• Service Learning
• Family engagement opportunities

  Quality out-of-school (OST) time programs like Academic Achievers reduce the number of school-aged children who become involved with negative behaviors and promote academic success. SA Youth’s Academic Achievers program takes place after school and during the summer for youth between the ages of 5 and 13.

  Our site locations operate four to five hours during the school year and up to ten hours over the summer and select school holidays. SA Youth provides a safe place, caring adults, and positive youth development programs during the out-of-school time hours when destructive and other risky behaviors can occur.

  SA Youth's Out-of-School Time Program Academic Achievers provides a structured, safe, and supervised place for learning and social interaction. 

  PREVENTION PROGRAM

  SA Youth’s Academic Achievers Program provides year-round positive youth development programs during non-school hours. We offer an array of programming that focus on the academic achievement, character development, and healthy lifestyles of San Antonio’s youth. Our site locations exist to keep children out of trouble, and engaged in educational activities.

  PROGRAMS SERVICES

  Our youth development services include:

  • Academic and homework support
  • STEM activities
  • Art and music activities
  • Nutrition education
  • Physical fitness and education
  • Field trips (summer programming only)
  • Service Learning
  • Family engagement opportunities

Fall/Spring Programming:

• Students must be in grades 6-8 for the school year.
• Texas resident within school districts served by SA Youth
• Students must be referred by a teacher or administrator at their school.

Click here for more information and a list of schools served.

Click here to apply.

FUNdamental Sports includes three core principles:

• Foundational Skills
• Unified Partners
• No Limits.

This program establishes individualized programs for athletes ages two and older who, due to their physical and/or developmental abilities, are working on foundational motor skills to prepare them for possible competitions in official Special Olympics events.

As the athlete learns the sport progressions, he/she comes closer to acquiring skills considered essential for participation in official Special Olympics competitions and daily life activities.

FUNdamental Sports athletes participate in a variety of sports that have been adapted to accommodate all ability levels.

Participation is accomplished through the use of adapted equipment and physical assistance that are matched to the individual’s level of need. Athletes are not limited in the number or types of equipment and assistance that is used in order to achieve success.

Through the inclusion of Unified Partners as one-on-one assistants, the athletes and partners have the opportunity to develop friendships. Additionally, the Unified Partners will have the opportunity to grow in their awareness of the athletes’ unique abilities.

This is a year-round sports training and athletic competition program for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.

This program is for children and adults with intellectual disabilities.

Athletes may begin training as early as six years old but must be eight years old to compete.

Athletes must be 12 years old to attend statewide competitions.

Children ages two through seven can participate as “athletes in training” where the Young Athletes Program (YAP) is available.

ACE is designed to align after school activities with the school day by providing tutoring, homework assistance, and enrichment opportunities. All ACE programs strive to improve academic performance, school day attendance, promote positive behavior, increase graduation and promotion rates, and provide college and career readiness.

K-5th grade

Free

Our Summer Meals For Kids campaign aims to fill the summer meal gap by providing no-cost nutritious meals, groceries, and snacks for children over the summer. When kids eat great, they can play great!

Kids 18 and under are eligible to access no-cost summer meals from any of the Summer Meal sites.

Children do not need to be enrolled in a specific San Antonio Food Bank program to receive a meal.

Our prescribed pediatric extended care services let your kids be kids. Our state-of-the-art facility was designed with children in mind, allowing them to play, dream, and grow — all while meeting their physiological, developmental, nutrition, and social needs. Our goal, through PPEC, is to impact the lives of our medically complex children from the early stages of life all the way into early adulthood.

What is PPEC?
Prescribed pediatric extended care, or PPEC for short, is provided at a non-residential center that serves medically complex or technologically dependent children under the age of 21 who require short, long-term, or intermittent medical care due to medically complex conditions.

The ACP PPEC provides services to medically complex children who cannot attend a regular daycare. Our services meet the child’s physiological, developmental, nutrition, and social needs. We provide nursing and psychosocial services, developmental therapies, caregiver training, and personal care support to our children.

Click here for qualifications.

Art Therapy Is a form of psychotherapy based on the process of creating visual images through drawing, painting, sculpting, and the use of other art materials. In art therapy, emotions and thoughts are expressed symbolically through the creation of personal imagery. Art bypasses verbal defenses and limitations, allowing for insight to occur in a non-threatening way. The art produced can be reflected upon, and with guidance from the art therapist, one can explore the meaning of the images and work through areas of conflict and distress.

We currently only accept the following insurances:

• TX Medicaid
• Community First
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Aetna Better Health of TX
• Optum

Please call for private-pay fees.

All behavior has meaning. It is a way of communicating feelings and needs. So-called problem behavior is one way a child expresses conflict, which is difficult to conceptualize and verbalize. A child can channel and give conceptual form to negative feelings and behaviors through working with art materials. The clarification and responses of an art therapist facilitates the child’s awareness of patterns, intentions, and the meaning of behavior.

A child-centered approach curriculum addresses social and developmental issues for children and teens in the foster care system. This curriculum incorporates culturally-rooted concepts and values of each individual through indigenous teachings, writings, and expressive modalities.

In addition, clients will have the opportunity to learn meditation, guided imagery, and the calming effects of quieting the mind through meditation techniques.

Licensed professional counselors provide confidential psychotherapy sessions to individuals, families, and in group settings to those who are experiencing behavioral, social, or challenging situations as it relates to being in the foster care system. Counseling session objectives are to strengthen personal awareness, nurture, heal, foster positive social changes, improve family communication, and expand and deepen their personal skills needed to help cope with the challenges that come from being the foster care system.

We currently only accept the following insurances:

• TX Medicaid
• Community First
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Aetna Better Health of TX
• Optum

Please call for private-pay fees.

Our Summer Meals For Kids campaign aims to fill the summer meal gap by providing no-cost nutritious meals, groceries, and snacks for children over the summer. When kids eat great, they can play great!

Kids 18 and under are eligible to access no-cost summer meals from any of the Summer Meal sites.

Children do not need to be enrolled in a specific San Antonio Food Bank program to receive a meal.