Pathways Youth & Family Services is a Texas nonprofit providing foster care, adoption, residential care and behavioral health services for children and families in San Antonio and communities throughout Texas. Pathways helps individuals and families interested in becoming foster parents by providing training, licensing assistance and ongoing support. Foster care programs are designed to provide safe, stable and nurturing homes for children who have experienced abuse, neglect, trauma or other difficult circumstances.

Foster care services include traditional foster care, kinship care and specialized programs for children who may have behavioral, emotional, developmental or medical needs. Pathways works with foster families to help them understand each child's individual needs and provide appropriate care and support. Pathways also provides adoption services for children in the Texas foster care system. Families interested in foster care or adoption can contact Pathways to learn about current opportunities, eligibility requirements, training and the licensing process.

Through Mosaic Behavioral Health, Pathways provides trauma-informed mental health services for children and families. Services include individual therapy, family therapy, targeted case management, skills training, rehabilitative services and psychiatric care. Mental health professionals use evidence-based and trauma-informed approaches that may include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Trust-Based Relational Intervention.

Pathways also operates specialized residential programs, including Habilitative Homes in San Antonio for children with severe intellectual and developmental disabilities. San Antonio families interested in becoming foster parents, adopting through foster care or finding behavioral health services for a child can contact Pathways Youth & Family Services to learn about available programs, eligibility and enrollment.