The Settlement Home

At The Settlement Home for Children, we believe that healing and learning take place when a child's deepest needs are met, both physically and mentally. We are dedicated to helping children who have been abused and neglected by resolving their emotional, behavioral and family problems and providing quality residential care.

Description:
Residential Treatment Center
Our facility, located in North Austin on ten acres, is a warm, neighborhood environment with three residential cottages. The Center provides 27 beds for girls between the ages of 7 and 17, who are in need of 24-hour therapeutic care at the Specialized or Intense level. On-campus schooling is available as well as a 1:4 staff to child ratio, a highly structured program, and a well-trained and educated staff who provide care and nurturing to our children. Girls have the opportunity to move through our continuum of care from the residential treatment center to our therapeutic group homes and into one of our foster family homes.

Therapeutic Group Homes
For 24 girls ages 7 to 17 who are at the Moderate or Specialized level, we have three agency staffed therapeutic group homes. Each group home provides the girls with a more normal family setting, the opportunity to attend public school or our on-campus school, and a 1:6 staff to child ratio. Group homes provide a transition from a residential treatment setting to either a foster home or independent living.

Foster Family Program
For boys and girls, ages birth to age 18, we provide safe, nurturing, healing families. Our program is therapeutic in that we can serve children at the Basic, Moderate or Specialized level. Our therapists are on staff at our agency and provide both the therapy for the child, multi-family groups for our families and training for our foster parents.

History:
Throughout our history, The Settlement Home for Children has established a reputation as one of the premiere children’s agencies in Texas. In 1916 twelve Austin women started the Girls’ Settlement Home at 304 E. 1st Street, a day nursery for impoverished working families. The agency has continued to grow with a major campus renovation and expansion. Construction includes an Education Building, Dining Room expansion, a new on-campus group home, the purchase of another off-campus group home, the renovation of our activity building, main building and 3 on-campus residential treatment cottages. The Settlement Home, in conjunction with The University of Texas, opens an on-campus school for children unable to function in a public school setting. A very special Settlement Home Foster Family is named State of Texas’ Foster Parents of the Year and an employee at The Settlement Home is selected as Child Care Worker of the Year for the State of Texas.

Contact person: Brooke Fell, Volunteer Coordinator, (512) 836-2150 ext 151, (email)

Office fax number: (512) 836-2159

Address:

1600 Payton Gin Austin, TX 78758 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.settlementhome.org

Last updated on March 6, 2009