We stop the cycle of multiple placements that so severely hurts the children in care.

Achieving permanent sanctuary and healing homes for children and families from hard places.

The foster care system is broken. There’s no denying it. We desperately need Child Placing Agencies that work to heal and support the children in care, the foster families, and the CPA system overall. The Sanctuary offers this kind of hope and healing to the children in our community, as well as the tools to equip an army of foster parents who understand the challenges and are undaunted in their mission to take it on.

Statistics don’t lie. A study in Texas showed that by 24 years of age, almost 40% of former foster kids have been homeless at some point and 50% had been "couch surfing" since leaving care. A study in Pennsylvania found that over 90% of foster youth who move more than four times will end up in juvenile justice. 88% of the reported runaways who were victims of child sex trafficking were in the care of social services when they went missing.

We are a different kind of Child Placement agency

We train, retain, and support foster parents who are fully equipped to offer healing to our most vulnerable children in Texas.

What makes us unique is that we are trained in Trust-Based Relational Intervention and offer Wraparound Services to our foster families. This includes providing 24/7 crisis intervention, counseling services for both the children and families in our agency, and a fierce commitment to stand behind the children and families in our care. Our mission is simple – once a child enters into our care, we make a commitment to work with that child towards healing until they are either returned to their families of origin or to permanency, such as adoption. We stop the cycle of multiple placements that so severely hurts the children in care. Click the buttons below to learn more about our four primary areas of service.