About Us
BCFS Health and Human Services-San Antonio helps youth reach their full potential by providing services that promote healthy development including workforce assistance, dropout prevention activities, self-esteem and leadership activities, counseling and more. BCFS Health and Human Services-San Antonio parenting education programs also help families create safe, loving home environments.
Youth receiving services are:
- Between the ages of 16 and 25
- Currently in foster care, or aging out of foster care
- Formerly in foster care but still need assistance
- Foster youth on probation or parole, or released from juvenile correctional facilities
Tamera is a 19-year-old former foster youth who aged out of foster care in San Antonio. BCFS Health and Human Services-San Antonio helped her get into San Antonio College, get tuition assistance, register for classes and buy textbooks. They’re also teaching her financial responsibility and helping her get an apartment close to campus. Tamara says, “no matter how difficult the job, BCFS Health and Human Services has helped me get it done! I love you guys!”
Youth Services
- Preparation for Adult Living (PAL): Helps youth from foster care develop the necessary skills and access resources to live independently after leaving the foster care system
- Texas Workforce Commission (TWC): Job searches, job referrals, career assessments, identification of growth occupations in the local labor market, job skills training and job placement
- Education and Training Voucher (ETV): A scholarship program that helps youth from foster care pay for higher education and vocational training
- Resiliency Through Healing (RTH): Helping those 18 to 25 years old by offering free counseling and therapy services
- One-on-one individualized assistance
- Assessments to identify unmet needs
- Mentoring
Family Services
The Family And Youth Success (FAYS) program aims to reduce family conflict and prevent the problems of delinquent behaviors, runaway, truancy and child abuse by helping youths and their families learn to resolve crises and develop coping and parenting skills. FAYS services are free to youth and families.
