We believe that families are stronger when they are together, and this is never more important than when a child is sick or injured.

Children's Hospital San Antonio provides a safe and caring home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in San Antonio, Texas. 

Many people would describe us as a homeless shelter, but we are so much more. We help and serve families with children who are willing to do their part to help themselves. The adults work and seek employment. We also have them attend classes and group meetings that focus on their individual and family needs. We like to use tools such as food, clothing and shelter to share the truth that a relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important necessity in life.

The shelter provides immediate, short-term housing for women and families experiencing homelessness.  It is the only Emergency Shelter program in Bexar County that is able to house a complete family. The objective is to move these individuals and families from crisis to stability with emergency shelter.

Rooms come available most days on a first-come, first-served basis.

Women, mothers and children, and intact families. (Couples must show a marriage certificate.)

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.

This program provides financial assistance to veterans struggling to pay rent or mortgage. 

Donations are strictly for veterans.

Click here for more details and to apply.

Qualifications:

• Proof of service
• Honorable and dishonorable discharge
• Veterans, dependents and spouse, and surviving spouse
• Homeless or facing homelessness

For more information or community agency referrals, call (210) 352-2020 or visit the Texas Veterans Commission website.

The primary purpose of the Mission is to acquaint the homeless and the wanderer with the priceless knowledge of the love and forgiveness of God in and through Jesus Christ. Our secondary purpose is to offer a bath, clean clothes, food and a place of shelter for the night.

The Mission provides a complete change of clothing to our guests as needed. We maintain a large clothing storage area which contains shirts, pants, coats, underwear and socks, and shoes. Our clothing articles are donated to us by both individuals and local churches. We also provide to our guests toiletries including soap, shampoo, toothbrushes and paste. Our guests check in at 5:00 PM and are provided clean clothes if desired, and take a shower. In exchange for clothing, we take soiled men’s clothes and after washing, place these clothes in our clothing storage room for reissue to the men.

Proof of I.D. and no more than 2 bags to bring with you.

Men Only

We welcome donations of money, clothing or food.

To donate clothing, contact the office at 210-222-9736.

Free

The San Antonio Rescue Mission dormitory houses up to 40 men in bunk beds.

• All bed linens are washed, dried and replaced on each bed every day
• Showers and personal hygiene items are provided
• Meal served after chapel services
• Soiled clothing can be exchanged for clean clothes.
• The dormitories are located in our 4 buildings.

View photos of our dormitories here.

Men only; homeless in San Antonio.

SARM is now open to serve a reduced number of guests. Call us for more information.

None

Homeless shelter and homeless veteran outreach program.

We provide a safe place where you can leave you things without the worry of theft.

• Free meals every day
• Coffee served all day
• Laundry machines.

Veterans only

$320/month or $80/week.

The South Campus is a low-barrier emergency shelter where individuals who are 18 or older and experiencing homelessness can take refuge as needed.

Through our many community partners, clients at the South Campus have access to three meals daily, safe indoor sleeping, shower facilities, medical care, mental health services, and more.

Haven's Promise

• You will always be treated with kindness, compassion, dignity, and respect.
• You will always sleep indoors.
• You will receive three hot meals a day and any clothing you need.

Services Available

• Housing through Haven Housing and our partners
• Employment opportunities
• ID Recovery: Social Security card, birth certificate, driver’s license
• Application Assistance for Social Security, Disability, Medicare, SNAP
• Substance use recovery
• Detox
• Sober living
• LGBTQ services
• Medical care
• Eyecare
• Dental care
• Psychiatric services
• Counseling
• Help with abuse, trauma
• GED classes
• Support for parents
• Support for school-age kids
• Legal services
• Showers, laundry
• Computer use

For additional information, contact [email protected].

There are no ID or drug test requirements, but you must enroll to receive services. Click here for intake/enrollment details.

We cannot shelter unaccompanied minors. If you are an unaccompanied minor, please call United Way of Bexar County by dialing 211 for a listing of available shelters and resources.

All services are at no cost to Haven clients.

• Computer Skills Classes
• Free Wi-Fi
• Free Computer Use

Residential recovery-focused program for men and women experiencing:

• homelessness
• mental illness
• trauma
• substance use

Send referrals to: [email protected]

The Transformational Campus provides residential housing while clients work to overcome the issues that led to their becoming homeless.

Haven's Promise:

• You will ALWAYS be treated with kindness, compassion, dignity, and respect.
• You will always sleep indoors, even in the Courtyard.
  You will receive three hot meals a day and any clothing you need.
• You will be connected to housing, through Haven Housing and our partners.
• You will be connected to medical care, dental care, eye care, and mental health care.

Over 150 partner organizations collaborate to provide comprehensive services, including:

• Housing
• Employment opportunities
• ID Recovery: Social Security card, birth certificate, driver’s license
• Application Assistance for Social Security, Disability, Medicare,
• SNAP
• Substance use recovery
• Detox
• Sober living
• LGBTQ services
• Medical care
• Eyecare
• Dental care
• Psychiatric services
• Counseling
• Help with abuse, trauma
• GED classes
• Support for parents
• Support for school-age kids
• Legal services
• Showers
• Laundry
• Computer use

You must enroll to receive services. Click here for intake/enrollment details.

Space on the Transformational Campus is limited, and we cannot guarantee that a bed will be immediately available.

We cannot shelter unaccompanied minors. If you are an unaccompanied minor, please call United Way of Bexar County by dialing 211 for a listing of available shelters and resources.

All services are at no cost to Haven clients.

• Computer Skills Classes
• Free Wi-Fi
• Free Computer Use

4.2 million youth in the United States experience homelessness each year. LGBTQ+ youth are 120% more likely to experience homelessness due to family conflicts, rejection, aging out of the foster care system, and poverty. Thrive’s emergency shelter is housed on the campus of Haven for Hope and provides 10 young adults with shelter for up to 6 months.

The core services at our emergency shelter include not only basic needs of food and shelter but individually tailored and youth-directed case management plans to help young adults move forward in exiting homelessness.

While LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness have similar needs to their non-LGBTQ+ peers, they also have additional unique needs specific to their identities.Thrive assists young adults with linkage to resources such as ID recovery, counseling, medical services, gender-affirming care, educational opportunities, and vocational training in a safe and supportive environment.

Our focus is to help remove barriers that young adults may encounter in seeking services and help guide them toward their next move in achieving their goals.

Any LGBTQ youth and young adults are provided shelter up to 6 months.

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.

Safe Place® is a program of National Safe Place Network (NSPN).

Free.

The San Antonio AIDS Foundation provides a continuum of care to low-income HIV-positive men, women, and transgender individuals. Our services include resource and benefits assistance, case management, mental health counseling, medical care, pharmacy services, housing, and a year-round hot meal program.

We offer onsite and mobile testing for HIV and STDs, as well as HIV prevention education presentations in local public schools, colleges and universities, adult probation facilities, and teen detention programs.

Services are only available to individuals living with HIV/AIDS who are registered clients of the San Antonio AIDS Foundation.

This provides transitional safe shelter for unaccompanied international pregnant and parenting teen mothers between 12-17 years of age and their babies.

This provides a safe home for pregnant and parenting teen mothers between 12-17 years of age and their babies who have experienced neglect and abuse.

A transitional living and support program for expectant mothers and mothers with infants who are experiencing homelessness. Mothers have a safe place to live and to prepare for birth, as well as have a home-like environment in which to nurture their baby

To be eligible: 

• Mothers must be willing to participate in an educational program or maintain employment.
• Case management, parenting education, life skills training and counseling are provided for all mothers.
• May remain in the program until child is 3 years of age.

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.

Safe Place® is a program of National Safe Place Network (NSPN).

Free.

The mission of St. PJ’s Children’s Home is to be a safe and loving refuge for children in crisis and to accompany them on their journey to healing and wholeness, breaking the cycle of abuse and neglect one child at a time.

Services We Offer:

• Domestic Shelter: A short-term emergency shelter for children, from 0-17 years old, who have experienced abuse and neglect.

• International Program: A short-term emergency shelter for unaccompanied international children from ages 16-17 years old.

• Counseling: Provides mental health assessments and counseling for children, families, and caregivers specializing in trauma and play therapy. Outpatient services available.

• Mental Health Task Force: Provides education for mental health professionals on mental diagnoses and treatment, foster well-rounded understanding of the impact of trauma on a child.

• Family First Parenting Program: Provides community counseling, education, resource referrals, and material assistance to support former residents and individuals ages 0-24 months old. (Eligibility: women and men who are expecting a child, parent a child 36 months old or younger, are adopting parents within 24 months of placement of a child, and/or are a US Citizen or a qualified alien.)

St. Peter-St. Joseph Children's Home, affectionately referred to as St. PJ's Children's Home, is a short-term emergency shelter for children in crisis and are under the protection of the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). We strive to provide a safe and loving home to children facing challenges as a result of abuse and neglect.

Short-term emergency shelter for children from birth to 17 years of age who are victims of abuse or neglect and are under the protection of Child Protective Services. Their goal is to provide each child with specialized treatment to assist them through their journey of healing.

None

Thousands of unaccompanied children cross the border to the United States from Central America each year and are transferred to the custody of ORR. ORR promptly places these children in the least restrictive setting in the best interest of the child. St. PJ's is an approved ORR shelter.

The majority of unaccompanied children are between 13 and 17 years of age; a larger proportion are boys. This group is very diverse: it also includes pregnant girls and a growing proportion of elementary school-age children. In U.S. procedural documents, these children are referred to as “unaccompanied alien children".

Licensed short-term emergency shelter providing services for up to 82 international children and youth ages 5 to 17. International children who reside at St. PJ's are provided care in compliance with all regulatory agencies.

St. PJ's also provides temporary foster care homes for international children ages 0 to 12.

Free if you meet the criteria

If you have no place to call home or are on the verge of crisis, we want to help.

Our program provides a safe place for you to call home: 

Learning happens best when you and your family feel safe and settled at home. Our housing and education programs provide subsidized, transitional housing for you and your children.

Our housing includes:

• A safe space for you and your family
• After-school care to help your children thrive
• A supportive community that celebrates together.

Education - The Path to a Better Future: You may feel like many women who reach out to us. Hopeless. Overwhelmed. Like you have no future. Over the years, we've seen women like you, change their lives with education. You're not alone. We are here to help.

Women in our programs have:

• Completed their GED
• Finished a college degree
• Watched their children thrive in a caring after-school program
• Found themselves earning a living wage
• Become self-sustaining
• Provided their family with a better future

Full Education Program: Our housing and education program provides transitional housing, after-school programs, mentoring and more to help women complete a college degree. Families live separately in their transitional housing apartments while the moms pursue their education goals and learn life skills.

The Visitation House Learning Center: Our community learning center is open to other women who want to take the next steps to improve their education.

• Single mother, at least 21 years old with children between the ages of 4-12
• Experienced homelessness or at risk
• Sober for at least a year
• Desire, interest and ability to further their education and maintain employment

Women/single mothers and their children only can stay for up to two years, giving families the time and support they need to pursue an education, find permanent housing, and achieve financial independence.

This 100-bed dormitory is an affordable, short-term housing option for men who are transitioning.

• Men only.
• Must present valid ID.
• No sex offenders.

Note: Top bunks have no rails or ladders so may not be suitable for all.

• $13 per night
• $75 per week
• $285 per month

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.

Safe Place® is a program of National Safe Place Network (NSPN).

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.

Safe Place® is a program of National Safe Place Network (NSPN).

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.

Safe Place® is a program of National Safe Place Network (NSPN).

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.

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 & Families

We offer low or no-cost services

Click here for information

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

Call for more information.

Youth 18-24 years old

We launched our lodging assistance program in 2020. We can provide 1-3 nights of lodging at a local hotel in the medical center area.

To apply for lodging assistance from Gabriella’s Smile, please complete the following Application and choose lodging assistance in the “Which program are you applying to?” field.

Once the application is submitted, your healthcare provider must complete the healthcare provider form and email it to [email protected] or fax it to 210-670-6201.

We will try to provide urgent assistance, but we ask that all requests be made at least 48 hours in advance.

Families must live 40 miles or further from the 78229 zip code.