Seton Home

In an effort to ensure our girls have better livelihood options for themselves and their children, they are required to enroll in school or GED classes within three days of arriving on campus. Classes are offered on-site via our partnership with the UT Charter School System. A scholarship endowment fund is available to provide financial assistance for the residents interested in continuing their education and or career development at a college or through vocational training schools.

We provide a holistic health approach which ensures our moms and babies have access to healthcare services at all times, within their first week of arrival, all moms and babies receive a full medical examination to ensure they are in full health and to address any necessary needs either mom or baby may have. Dental, vision, prenatal and postpartum services are scheduled by the medical coordinator to ensure our residents have access to healthcare as needed. Given our moms have endured severe traumatic situations, a big part of our health aspect focuses on mental health - facilitating individual and group counseling sessions that enable each resident to address and work through her trauma.

Seton Home provides a safe home for girls, ages 12-17 who are pregnant and/or parenting, the majority of whom have been removed from their homes by Child Protective Services due to severe abuse, neglect or sexual assault.

Our holistic dual generational program seeks to cover all basic necessities to help our teen mothers and their babies heal from their histories of abuse and empower them to self-sufficiency.

We offer a diversified program portfolio to ensure our young mothers are equipped with the knowledge and skills to provide a safe, nurturing and food secure environment for her children.

Our programs include: (1) Mommy & Me - a program that allows young moms to interact with their children in individual and group exercises that are geared towards creating stronger mother baby bonds. Having undergone severe abuse and neglect our young mothers benefit from added opportunities to form strong bonds with their babies, as most never had an opportunity to develop that with their parents. (2) Through Mommy’s Place – a program that seeks to teach young teen mothers basic financial literacy skills, they learn the importance of savings, money management, income earning and monetary transactions for goods at the in-kind store where they are able to purchase goods by saving their Seton Dollars, which they obtain through a rewards system.

Seton Home is a licensed childcare provider and operates a state-of-the-art childcare facility on campus, permitting our moms to continue their education. Through a partnership with the City of San Antonio we now offer Early Head Start as part of our child development program.