Saving Grace Children Place is Here to Help The Youth and Young Parents Succeed.
MISSION STATEMENT
Our mission is based on the premise that all children can progress and be successful in spite of their emotional, social or cognitive disabilities. We believe that all youth should have the opportunity to actively participate and develop meaningful functional life skills. Our commitment is to maximize children’s potential, regardless of their physical, intellectual or emotional limitations. Our goal is to deposit seeds of balanced mental health, happiness and hope into the hearts and minds of youth with challenges, by creating a nurturing and structured environment that will instill in them principles and values that will enable them to become productive members of society.
Most of Saving Grace Children Place residents suffer from chronic trauma related to poverty, violence, abuse and neglect, with symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, and maladaptive coping skills. Therefore, Saving Grace Children Place will have a team of counselors who provide direct support to our young mothers, helping them begin to heal from the trauma they’ve endured. Our therapist will meet our young moms where they are on their journey, as it is not until the healing begins that they can start to rebuild their lives and be a caring and nurturing parent to their child.
Saving Grace Children Place will allow the youth to remain in the program until they age out of the system (CPS custody). This will allow the young mother to grow and be productive all while being supported as they journey through being young mothers. However, if the young mother choose not to work through the program or abide by the rules within the program they can be discharged.
There are more than half a million children living in the US foster care system today. After multiple studies, researchers have indicated that teenagers in the foster care system are more likely to become pregnant than teens in the general public. In the foster care system alone, 48% of girls become pregnant by the age of 19, with roughly a third of 17-year-old girls in the system currently pregnant. Teenage pregnancies among youth in foster care have reached epidemic levels. Teenage girls in the foster care system are twice as likely to get pregnant before turning 19 than teenage girls who are not in foster care. Many of these teenagers are pregnant again
before the age of 19. Why are these teens at such high risk for pregnancy? Teens in foster care are more likely to have suffered from child abuse, which can lead to physical and emotional health problems. There are only 3 facilities of this kind in Texas and none of them are in the Houston or surrounding areas. However, the Houston area have pregnant teens and teen mothers in Child Protective Services (CPS) but has to be sent out of region so that they may remain with their child or separated from their child and placed in two different placements if housed in the Houston area. Therefore, Saving Grace Children Place will allow placement, services, education, and nurturing for these young mothers without leaving the city where they have siblings and relatives.
Please reach us at info@savinggracechildrenplace.org with any further questions.
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