EmberHope, Youthville
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Contact Information
2738 Macarthur VW
San Antonio, TX 78217
United States
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San Antonio, TX 78217
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Tuesday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Wednesday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Thursday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Friday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Saturday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Sunday | 9AM - 5PM |
We are a 501 C (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to impacting the lives of children, teens, and families. For more than 95 years, we led the change for a healthy child, family, and community.
Our core values of faith, integrity, cultural sensitivity, respect, excellence, and accountability are essential to everything we do. We work with hundreds of donors, foster families, volunteers, businesses, churches, and foundations who want to help families inspire positive change to build a brighter future.
Because of our generous donors, hundreds of children and teens have a home environment to move past pain into healing. Our program teams provide consistency, stability, training, and trauma-informed care to help the healing process begin.
Through our supporters’ unwavering dedication and loyalty, we can continue serving more children, teens, and families who need us for years to come. Join us.
The need for foster care in Kansas and Texas is great. Whether through long-term fostering or respite care, foster parents provide irreplaceable help.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Specialized / Therapeutic Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
Adults who are new to the fostering process sometimes feel overwhelmed and wonder if they will have support on their journey. Your child-placing agency is the first resource. Social services caseworkers provide aspiring foster parents with various types of support and connections. These include free educational training programs, helplines, and support groups.
It is important that foster parents build their individual support network, too. Connecting with other foster families with more experience is an excellent place to begin. Texas groups offer foster parent meetups; you can search online for the closest one.
The Texas Foster Family Association provides state training, a regional directory of support services, a summer training conference, and more. Membership benefits include getting access to foster care professionals and learning more about ways to become better caregivers. Children of TFFA members can also get assistance through the Scholarship Fund.
Austin Angels is another support organization that strives to assist foster parents and Texas foster children. They offer care packages and gifts for foster children and their caregivers, mentorship options, and education, among other resources. Foster children and teens can learn valuable skills that help prepare them for independent living, as well.
Ratings and Reviews
Average user rating
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May 30, 2022
My daughter is always running away and never being supervised. My daughter is 13 and has given herself 2 piercing and a tattoo. She also sniffs glue, markers, and nail polish to get high with other children in there. This place needs to be closed down. They only worry about money
Mar 31, 2022
Beyond horrible and irresponsible in their dealings. No one knows what the other is doing, there communication is non-existent, there is no accountability for those who work for them and while I know there are employees there who do care, as a company they are a joke. Another broken agency causing more confusion in the foster care system.
Oct 27, 2021
Do not work here unless you like to restrain kids and not have any support from your boss.
Oct 15, 2019
Bad place to work. Administration is not geared towards helping kids or staff.
Jun 13, 2019
Very caring staff, provides a much needed service