The Texas Foster Youth Justice Project provides free legal services for current and former foster youth throughout Texas. The team helps youth with various legal and administrative matters such as obtaining copies of CPS records; erasing criminal and juvenile records; and accessing foster youth benefits and programs that help in the transition from foster care to independence.

Call to verify eligibility.

Family Tapestry strives to ensure children and youth in foster care experience safety, well-being, and permanency, which are achieved through our values and outcomes:
1. Safe in care
2. Improve overall well-being
3. Placement in their home communities
4. Achieve permanency
5. The first placement is the last placement
6. Increase family engagement
7. Reunified with their biological parents when possible
8. Placed with relative or kinship caregivers if reunification with biological parents is not possible
9. Placement in least restrictive environment when possible and reduce length of stay in foster care
10. No eject-no reject (every child who enters foster care must be provided care)
11. Connections to family and others important to the child are maintained
12. Placement with their siblings
13. Services respect child’s culture
14. Children and youth provided opportunities, experiences, and activities similar to those by their peers who are not in foster care
15. Youth have opportunities to participate in decisions that affect their lives
16. Youth are fully prepared for successful transition into adulthood

To file a grievance, concern, or complaint, please email us here.

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Providing Counseling services for Child Loss, Miscarriage, Infertility Issues, Family Counseling, Divorce, Adopting, Fostering, Chronic Illness, Cancer, First Responders, Veterans, Adjustment, Anxiety, Depression, Women's Issues, Self-Esteem, Adolescents, Young Adults, and more!

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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.

Open meetings are available to anyone interested in Alcoholics Anonymous’ program of recovery from alcoholism. 

24 Hour Hotline (210) 828-6235

24 Hour Hotline-Spanish (210) 409-8524

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BCFS Health and Human Services Residential Services Division Foster Care and Adoption strives to keep children with their biological family, but when a child’s parents are unable to make the necessary changes to regain custody of their children, the state or federal government will move to place the child in the next best situation for their growing needs: with adoptive parents.

Adoption is currently only available for families in the San Antonio area. We cannot offer adoption to families in Dallas/Fort Worth or Tyler at this time.

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.

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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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.

Habilitative HomesWe exist to serve the children first; therefore, the environment, the programming, and the staffing for our facilities are always child-centered. 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.

My Mariposa Home is a multi-phase restorative program rooted in trauma informed care. It is a unique new program that will have a transformational impact on the community. This new program assists women (single adult women, pregnant women, and mothers with children under three years of age) who have been survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, or sexual assault with transitional housing and trauma informed supportive services. The overall program focus is to provide for the emotional and physical needs of women survivors and their children. We provide supportive services that enhance protective factors and promote self-sufficiency in a safe and stable environment. The program services and outcomes will strive to help survivors reach sustainable economic independence throughout their restorative journey.

Services offered

• Counseling.
• Case Management & Life Skills.
• Parenting Classes.
• Referrals.
• Material Assistance.

• Women at least 18 years of age.
• A survivor of human trafficking, domestic violence, or sexual assault.
• Permanent resident or U-Visa status.
• Not under imminent threat from others.
• Not a imminent threat to herself or others.
• Has maintained sobriety at least 30 days.
• Is willing to do the hard work it will require to have a new life which includes pursuing educational, vocational, or employment endeavors.
• Is willing to live in a community setting with peers and children.

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