Community-Based Care

The Children’s Shelter was awarded the Bexar County Single Source Continuum Contract from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to implement community-based care in Region 8a-Bexar County. The Children’s Shelter has demonstrable history in Bexar County and San Antonio since 1901 and provides a comprehensive array of trauma-informed care services to children and families impacted by maltreatment.

The Children’s Shelter formed Family Tapestry in August 2018 to restructure the service delivery model of critical services to ensure children and youth experience safety, well-being, and permanency, which are achieved through our values and outcomes:

1. Safe in care
2. Improve overall well-being
3. Placement in their home communities
4. Achieve permanency
5. The first placement is the last placement
6. Increase family engagement
7. Reunified with their biological parents when possible
8. Placed with relative or kinship caregivers if reunification with biological parents is not possible
9. Placement in least restrictive environment when possible and reduce length of stay in foster care
10. No eject-no reject (every child who enters foster care must be provided care)
11. Connections to family and others important to the child are maintained
12. Placement with their siblings
13. Services respect child’s culture
14. Children and youth provided opportunities, experiences, and activities similar to those by their peers who are not in foster care
15. Youth have opportunities to participate in decisions that affect their lives
16. Youth are fully prepared for successful transition into adulthood