The shelter provides immediate, short-term housing for women and families experiencing homelessness. 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 marriage certificate.)

No Fee

The Courtyard is a safe area with basic medical needs, communal showers, outdoor sleeping on mats, meals and other basic services.

To access services call visit our Intake office M-F 8 am-3 pm or call (210) 220-2100 or email [email protected] for more information.

Must have a Texas ID or obtain one within 30 days of entering.

All services are at no cost to Haven clients

Guadalupe Home is a transitional living program for women who find themselves without shelter and basic needs who are pregnant and/or parenting and are over the age of 18.

Guadalupe Home provides safe shelter and support services in a home-like environment for mothers and their children to nurture and support their family unit.

Support services are provided to residents in an effort to care for themselves and their children while moving towards self-sufficiency.

Additionally, opportunities for personal development are offered to the residents including assistance with goal setting and achievement, establishing priorities and effective decision-making.

Guadalupe Home encourages residents to take steps toward becoming independent, while creating a new life for their family.

Please contact Mariel Luna, Program Director, at 210-476-0707 for more information.

Women, pregnant or parenting, over 18

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 – Within 30 minutes, a RMYA staff member or qualified Safe Place volunteer will arrive to talk with the youth and, if necessary, provide transportation to RMYA's Centro Seguro Drop-In Center.

Step Four – Once at Centro Seguro, counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff makes sure 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

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 – Within 30 minutes, a RMYA staff member or qualified Safe Place volunteer will arrive to talk with the youth and, if necessary, provide transportation to RMYA's Centro Seguro Drop-In Center.

Step Four – Once at Centro Seguro, counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff makes sure 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

H.O.M.E. Intervention Services. Our vision is to facilitate charitable , educational, and faith-based services in underserved communities with an emphasis on assisting women , children and female ex-offenders, find housing, enroll in literacy programs, and obtain employment skills that lead to a better quality of life.

Home Intervention Services has 2 family rooms available. Single women with up to 3 children. Men are not allowed on property.

Our home is not a free living situation each family pays rent in the amount of $400/month.

We have a 6 bedroom home with 3 living rooms. Each family gets their own kitchen space as well. They would have to buy their own food and be sufficient.

Please call or email for program information.

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 – Within 30 minutes, a RMYA staff member or qualified Safe Place volunteer will arrive to talk with the youth and, if necessary, provide transportation to RMYA's Centro Seguro Drop-In Center.

Step Four – Once at Centro Seguro, counselors meet with the youth and provide support. Agency staff makes sure 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

It is difficult to ignore the many problems families face on a daily basis. 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 The Bridge Emergency Shelter, 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 and anger management.

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

Community Psychiatric Clinic: The RMYA Community Psychiatric Clinic provides short-term psychiatric services in conjunction with individual child and family counseling, for community children 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.

Parenting Classes: 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.

Emergency Shelter Services: Is your family constantly fighting? Does your home feel out-of-control and chaotic? Do you feel like running away is your only option? You are not alone! RMYA offers shelter services for youth 5 to 17 years age. Please call our office for further information at (210) 340-7971

To make an appointment, please call 210-340-7971

All counseling services are offered to the community on a sliding scale.

Parenting Classes are $7 each, or $35 when pre-registering for the whole course.

We accept Community First Medicaid, Traditional Medicaid, and Superior Health Medicaid. We also accept Master Card and Visa.

SAMMinistries' Transitional Housing Program is a residential program for families meeting HUD's definition as "literally homeless" (coming directly from emergency shelter or from the street/other place not meant for habitation. The program serves single parents with children or couples with children, and residents may stay for up to 24 months.

On-site services available include:
* Case management
* Mental health counseling
* Educational services for adults and children
* Child care
* Life skills classes
* Medical and dental clinic
* Services tailored for victims of domestic violence, and other crime
* An array of health, wellness, and social activities for adults and children.

Must meet HUD definition as "literally homeless" and must be referred by the community's Coordinated Entry system. This facility does not serve single individuals. Families may consist of couples with children, or single mothers or fathers with children.

Under certain circumstances, we accept youth adjudicated as in need of supervision. However, we will not accept youth charged with violent crimes such as murder, rape, manslaughter, sexual assault, robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, or similar crimes.