Boys Town Texas

In our mission to change the way America cares for her children and families, we provide a continuum of care that strengthens them in mind, body and spirit.  Our integrated continuum of family services includes these programs at Boys Town Texas:

Boys Town offers an integrated continuum of services that provides children and families with the right care in the right service at the right time. This system is linked in philosophy and in the methods used. To support this integrated continuum, certain fundamental principles, values, and services must cut across all levels of these services and programs. Some of the more important include:  Spirituality/Religious Helping children and families build a strong spiritual and religious foundation is an important part of Boys Town’s mission. Positive character traits like respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, fairness, caring, and citizenship provide the framework for a child’s value education. Medical Care Boys Town owns and operates the Boys Town National Research Hospital, which provides clinical and surgical services to patients from Boys Town’s own programs and for children and families across the country. Education Services Education is integral to providing effective treatment for children. In many of the Boys Town residential programs, specialized educational services are embedded within the programs. Care Coordination Boys Town attempts to provide the right services to children and families at the right time and in the right program. Boys Town’s Care Coordination programs provide intensive case management services for children in a variety of settings or levels of care. Click here to learn more about our programs in Spanish.

Treatment Family Homes for Adolescents is a family-style, community-based residential program which can serve six to eight males or females, usually ages 12 to 18.  Married couples called Family-Teachers are the primary treatment agents, along with a full-time Assistant Family-Teacher.  Family-Teachers are responsible for structured supervision of youth in daily living and treatment activities.  The couple and their assistant work on both treatment and skill building in the home, and with community and family resources in the child’s life.  A major focus of this program is teaching older youth functional skills – often referred to as independent-living skills – that can help them achieve success in school, their families, and work settings.  Boys Town Texas has five Treatment Family Homes on a 26-acre campus just inside Loop 1604 and Skyhawk Drive.

Treatment Foster Care is a community-based program operated by specially trained and supervised Treatment Foster Parents to serve foster children with treatment needs.  Treatment Foster Parents care for youth of all ages – infancy through adolescence – who need more attention and treatment than is provided in a traditional foster care placement.  Boys Town recruits, trains, and supervises Treatment Foster Parents, enabling them to care for youth with special needs in their private homes.  A major focus of this program is teaching older youth functional skills – often referred to as independent-living skills – that can help them achieve success in school, their families, and work settings.  Treatment Foster Parents receive 24-hour, on-call support and treatment advice from Boys Town professionals.

Family Preservation Services is a short-term, six- to eight-week, intensive, in-home program designed to prevent imminent out-of-home placement and keep families together.  A Family Consultant spends up to 20 hours a week in a family’s home and community to help parents provide a safe, healthy environment for their children.  The Family Consultant focuses on family strengths, helping the family to become self-sufficient and improve parenting techniques. The Family Consultant not only provides interventions in the family’s own home and community, but also links the family to community resources needed to maintain stability.  Family Consultants are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Family-Centered Services is an early intervention program designed to treat and address youth and family problems at home or school.  The main goals of this program are to build family strengths, teach new skills, and reduce out-of-home placement of children.  This program is for families who need supportive services to address high-risk situations and to prevent early issues from becoming a crisis.  Family-Centered Services is also utilized to reduce delinquency or to make court involvement less necessary.  Trained Family Consultants offer in-home counseling and skill development to children and families by providing teaching and instruction on specific skills and competencies.  Family Consultants are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and work directly with families two to four hours a week for three to six months. Family assistance includes focusing on the child’s behavior and improving parenting and family problem-solving skills, as well as linking families to needed family services. 

Boys Town National Hotline (800.448.3000), a toll-free crisis and resource referral service, is the only national hotline accredited by the American Association of Suicidology and the Council on Accreditation of Services for Family and Children, Inc. Trained counselors assist callers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, completing every call either by resolving the problem or making a referral.  Services include Spanish language assistance and a TTY line (800.448.1833) for speech-impaired, deaf or hard-of-hearing callers.  Opening in 1989, the hotline has assisted more than seven million people nationwide.