Good Hearts Youth & Family Services is a Texas child‑placing agency serving children, young adults and kinship caregivers in the greater Houston area. The agency recruits, licenses and supports foster families and provides supportive services and residential transitional supports for older youth.
Good Hearts Youth & Family Services is a child‑placing agency that serves infants, children, young adults and kinship caregivers in the greater Houston area. The organization places children in foster home settings and provides services intended to address physical, social, emotional and educational needs.
The organization emphasizes training foster parents to function as parents rather than as short‑term caregivers and describes a caregiving approach built around positive discipline, therapeutic de‑escalation techniques and minimizing use of restraints. Its policies prohibit a range of punitive and restrictive practices and restrict certain emergency behavior interventions except when specifically included in a treatment plan.
Provides childcare and treatment services in foster home settings for children and young adults; the program lists inclusionary and exclusionary clinical and functioning criteria for admissions.
Provides support to kinship caregivers who accept placement of related children in the legal custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, including caregiver training, case management, supportive family therapy, child care and assistance applying for public benefits.
Provides residential transitional living and life‑skills services for young adults who are continuing their education, with training in employment readiness, personal finance, household management and other skills to support independent living.
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