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"Strengthening
our community by providing safety, well-being
and lasting families for children"
About
us…
The
Children's Shelter is a private, non-profit, nationally
accredited corporation that has been providing services
to San Antonio and Bexar County since 1901. The mission
of The Children's Shelter is to "Strengthen our
community by providing safety, well-being and lasting
families for children." Our core values are respect,
compassion, optimism, integrity, team spirit, and
excellence. The Children's Shelter's services have
expanded from emergency shelter care to a continuum
of care of emergency shelters, foster care, adoption,
residential treatment care, child abuse prevention
and teen pregnancy programs.
The
Shelter is a United Way of San Antonio and Bexar
County agency, and is affiliated with the Texas
Alliance of Child and Family Services. The organization
was the first locally based child service agency
in South Texas to receive full accreditation by
the nationally recognized Council on Accreditation
for Services to Families and Children, Inc.
Temporary Emergency Shelter Care
The Children's Shelter provides
24-hour temporary emergency care to up to 104 children
per day, aged birth to 14 years, who have been removed
from their homes due to abuse, abandonment, and/or
neglect. At the Cedar Street Shelter and the new
Woodlawn Campus, children participate in classroom
instruction in the Shelter's on-campus school, therapeutic
art sessions with a registered art therapist, field
trips, an array of activities in the Learning Center,
and children under the age of three receive daily
stimulation to foster development. All children
are given assessments, which include 24-hour charting,
complete medical, eye, and dental exams, a social
history, a developmental history, and a psychological
examination and interview.
Therapeutic Foster Care
The Children's Shelter Foster
Care Program provides children with 24-hour substitute
therapeutic family care in private homes. These
loving, warm, accepting and stable homes care for
children who must be temporarily separated from
their permanent home. The Foster Care Program recruits
families from diverse backgrounds to fulfill each
child's ethnic background. The Program provides
training and support for potential parents.
Adoption
The Shelter facilitates the
adoption of children with special needs by recruiting,
training, and representing prospective adoptive
families to Child Protective Services in the hopes
that the family is "matched" with children
awaiting adoption. The Shelter provides support
to children and adoptive families during every phase
of the adoption process.
Girls Inc. of San Antonio
Girls Inc. of San Antonio
is an affiliate of Girls Incorporated, a national
non-profit organization that "Inspires all
girls to be strong, smart and bold." Girls
Inc. develops research-based, highly evaluated identity
programs for girls' ages 6-18 years. The programs
focus on adolescent pregnancy prevention, substance
abuse, violence prevention, leadership skills and
money management. Girl's Inc. partners with schools
and community organizations to provide programs
in a variety of neighborhoods within the San Antonio
area.
Project MAS
Project MAS (Mothers and Schools)
provides support groups, parenting skills classes,
and tutoring to pregnant teens. After giving birth,
the girls are part of our homebound program where
mother and child are transported to our learning
center. This enables them to remain in an environment
conducive to learning where they are equipped with
the skills and encouragement to return to classes
and further their education.
Residential Treatment Center
The Children's Shelter provides
24-hour residential treatment care for children,
aged 5-12 years, who have been victimized by abuse,
neglect or abandonment, and, as a result, have emotional
dilemmas that make it difficult for them to heal
and thrive in a family-based setting. The 36-bed
home for children enables healing through individualized
attention and therapeutic programming. Children
reside at the RTC between 90 to 120 days and then,
once significant emotional development has been
achieved, are placed with their biological family
or in a foster family.
Funding
The Children's Shelter receives
funding from the Texas Department of Family and
Protective Services as partial reimbursement for
the children who are brought to us by Child Protective
Services. Other funding sources are the United Way
of San Antonio and Bexar County, grants, corporate
partners, local foundations, volunteer organizations,
individual contributions and special events. Ninety-three
percent of the Shelter's operating budget is expended
on direct services to children. Our Form 990 may
be accessed by clicking here.*
Annual Report
Annual Report FY 2006-2007
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