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Child abuse and neglect wreaks havoc on a child’s mental and emotional health. Children may develop behavioral and emotional symptoms to cope with complex trauma, or perhaps even to forget or suppress the traumatizing memories. A child’s response to abusive treatment depends on the severity and frequency of the abuse, the availability of family and community support, and the child's resilience. At Jonathan’s Place, we provide a safe place, loving homes, and promising futures to abused and neglected children, teens and young adults. We do this by offering a variety of programs and supportive services to children and youth referred from 19 DFW counties.

Emergency Shelter - provides residential care and specialized services to newborns and children up to 18 years old. Children can stay in the Emergency Shelter for up to 90 days. While in the shelter, the children have a warm bed, three square meals a day and access to medical, dental and developmental assessments.

Girls Residential Therapeutic Program - provides a stable, long-term home for girls aged 10-18. Most of the girls have been in the foster care system for some time and struggle to be successful in family settings. To numb the pain of their abuse, many of the girls struggle with self-harm, eating disorders, and self-sabotage. The girls live in a twenty-four-hour therapeutic home environment with structured supervision and intensive support services.

Transitional Living Program - for young women aging out of foster care. The program includes provisions for safe housing and services to provide for mental and physical health, education, and improved well-being. Residents are taught self-sufficiency through hands-on learning emphasizing the development of educational, vocational, financial, domestic, and personal safety skills.

Foster Care & Adoption Program - Through this program, we recruit, train and support foster and foster-to-adopt families. Recognizing the shortage of foster homes in the area, especially the need for homes capable of specialized care, Jonathan’s Place recently expanded the capacity of this program to include care for 1) children with intellectual disabilities, 2) children on the autism spectrum, and 3) children determined to be trafficking victims.

Safe Place Program - Jonathan’s Place facilitates a runaway prevention and education program for youth in the Dallas area. Through this program, we provide support to youth who have run away or suffered some form of abuse and visited a Safe Place at any QuikTrip location. We also provide on-site, educational trainings to middle and high school students about the dangers of running away and human trafficking.

RESET (Restoring and Educating Survivors to Empowerment and Transformation) - Through the RESET program, we provide shelter, support and life skills for girls determined to be victims of sex trafficking.

Child abuse and neglect wreaks havoc on a child’s mental and emotional health. Children may develop behavioral and emotional symptoms to cope with complex trauma, or perhaps even to forget or suppress the traumatizing memories. A child’s response to abusive treatment depends on the severity and frequency of the abuse, the availability of family and community support, and the child's resilience. At Jonathan’s Place, we provide a safe place, loving homes, and promising futures to abused and neglected children, teens and young adults. We do this by offering a variety of programs and supportive services to children and youth referred from 19 DFW counties.

Jonathan’s Place (JP) has over 27 years of experience providing housing and services to abused children in the custody of The Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). JP programs are licensed by the State of Texas to serve children from infants through 23 years of age and include an emergency shelter program, a residential therapeutic program, a transitional living program, a therapeutic and treatment services foster care/adoption program and a national runaway prevention program, National Safe Place.

JP recognizes the value in partnerships and enjoys collaborative relationships with several state and local organizations. We have a partnership with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) and Child Protective Services (CPS) that spans the past 24 years. We also partner/collaborate with the National Safe Place, Texas Network of Youth Services, the Texas Alliance of Child and Family Services, Tex-Protects Garland ISD, Garland PD, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, CASA, Dallas Children's Advocacy Center, HOMES Clinic, Parkland's Reach Clinic, Texas Health Resources, Rainbow Days, North Texas Food Bank, ACH, Promise House, TRAC, DCCCD, Texas Workforce Commission, Traffick911, Interrupt, Girls Embracing Mothers, and many others.

Jonathan’s Place has grown from a long-term foster group home to an emergency shelter, a Foster & Adoptive Family Program, a Girls Residential Therapeutic Program, a Transitional Living Program, a RESET program, and National Safe Place Program caring for hundreds of children each year.

May 1991 – Kid Net Foundation was established as a Texas Not-for-Profit Corporation. Granted an IRS 501(c)(3) designation status.

August 1992 – A facility was purchased and renovated, with most work being completed by volunteers and funded by in-kind donations.

September 10, 1994 – Jonathan’s Place celebrated its grand opening.

January 1995 – Jonathan’s Place accepted its first children into its long-term foster group home, which had a capacity of 13 children.

Fall 1999 – Jonathan’s Place changed its license to an emergency shelter, serving children age newborn to 11 years.

October 2002 – Jonathan’s Place broke ground on a three phase, $12 million expansion project.

September 2003 – Phase I of the project was completed and two new cottages on a twenty-nine acre campus in Northeast Dallas County began accepting children. Jonathan’s Place essentially doubled its annual capacity for children in need.

February 2006 – Jonathan’s Place amended its license to care for children age newborn to 17 years in order to keep sibling groups together.

August 2006 – A Child Placing Agency license was granted to the Kid Net Foundation, allowing Jonathan’s Place to operate a Foster Family Program.

January 2007 – A Capital Campaign was implemented for Phases II and III of the Expansion Project with a goal of raising $8.2 million to complete construction of the Children’s Services Center, the Lodge, a third cottage and the Donation Center.

October 2007 – Jonathan’s Place added an adoption license to its Foster Family Program, allowing the facilitation of adoptions.

May 2008 – Jonathan’s Place began construction of Phases II and III of its three-phase expansion project.

September 2009 – Completed our three phase expansion project, and Jonathan’s Place moved all of its operations onto its Northeast Dallas County campus.

May 2010 – Jonathan’s Place was granted a contract to operate a Residential Therapeutic Program for girls age 10 – 18.

August 2010 – Jonathan’s Place was awarded its license to operate a Residential Therapeutic Program from the Texas Department of Family & Protective Services and accepted its first girls into the program.

January 2013 – Jonathan’s Place became the Dallas County affiliate for the National Safe Place Program.

October 2015 - Jonathan's Place opened an office in Ft. Worth to facilitate foster care and adoption for Tarrant and surrounding counties.

February 2016 – Jonathan’s Place was awarded its license to operate a Transitional Living Program for girls age 14 – 23.

October 2019 - Opened RESET (Restoring and Educating Survivors to Empowerment and Transformation) to provide shelter, support and life skills