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SJRC PROGRAMS 

For nearly 30 years, SJRC Texas has been caring for the most vulnerable children and families facing abuse, neglect, and often homelessness, helping them to heal from the traumas they have suffered. The programs of SJRC Texas cover a continuum of care to ensure that children placed in our care receive therapeutic treatment along their journey of healing towards a brighter future.

Our programs cover the full continuum of care for children from birth through their transition into adulthood. We utilize a therapeutic model of care, TBRI (Trust Based Relational Intervention) based on brain research on how trauma affects the developing brain and how to best offer healing from that trauma, giving children the tools to heal from trauma, abuse and neglect. We achieve our mission by providing the following programs: 

• Therapeutic Residential Foster Home Program - This program houses 38 youth at any one time and primarily focuses on teaching social skills, facilitating education and helping children deal with past issues and trauma through targeted therapeutic services as they live in homelike environments that model a functional family dynamic. Children who are admitted with psychiatric diagnoses and significant emotional and/or behavioral issues receive individual therapy more frequently than other youth in care to address their increased mental health needs. This program is unique in our community and fills an important need as approximately 50 percent of our population belongs to sibling groups at any given time.
• Pregnant and Parenting Teens Program and Emergency Shelter - SJRC Texas has responded to one of the greatest unmet needs for children- girls in the foster care systems that are pregnant and/or parenting. This 24-bed program, added to our New Braunfels campus in 2009, gives these young mothers prenatal and birthing care to address health, wellness, structure and stability as they learn life skills, job skills and parenting skills. This location also serves as an Emergency Shelter – we meet the most basic and immediate needs of children in a crisis situation. They come with often just the clothes on their back, confused and scared not knowing what their future holds. We immediately ensure they are fed, clothed and receive any medical care they may be lacking.
• Child Placing Agency - The program, with offices located in San Antonio, consists of our Community Foster Care and Adoption Services. In response to the community need for additional quality foster care providers, this program maintains the high quality of SJRC Texas programs, but provides services in community-based, individual family foster homes for children that can maintain and succeed in a lower level of care. In 2015, we received our adoption license, making it possible to provide forever families to our states most vulnerable children.