Passage of Youth Family Services
Building Lives and Maximizing Potential
Passage of Youth
PASSAGE OF YOUTH IS A LICENSED CHILD PLACING AGENCY IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.Passage of Youth is a private foster care agency serving the behavioral and mental health needs of children, preadolescents and teens. Founded in 2005, Passage of Youth, Inc. provides a comprehensive range of specialized and therapeutic residential treatment programs and a variety of foster care and community-based treatment programs to give hope, help and healing to kids facing crisis. Passage of Youth, Inc. is a licensed with the State of Texas.
Our Mission
Our mission is to provide a safe, caring and nurturing environment to ensure a healthy Passage from youth to adulthood, and to provide excellent and quality support to our Foster Parents to assure optimum services for children in our care.
Our Motivation
We believe that children should be our greatest investment. To often, children are labeled as burdens and neglected. Passage of Youth Family Services is encouraged and committed to support and assist children with the necessities to become productive citizens.
Our Philosophy
We believe each and every child has the potential to bring something unique and special to the world. Passage of Youth Family Services will help children to develop their potential by believing in them as capable individuals. We will empower the family to strengthen the community. It is our desire to build and maximum potential.
The CPS program requires potential foster parents to attend the PRIDE (Parent Resource for Information, Development, Education) pre-service training program. PRIDE is a competency-based program consisting of 10 three-hour sessions, and covers topics ranging from attachment issues, loss issues, discipline, effects of abuse and neglect, sexual abuse, and the effects of fostering and adopting on the family. PRIDE is taught through a co-trainer model that consists of an agency trainer and a foster or adoptive parent trainer. PRIDE is designed to train prospective foster and adoptive parents together.