Southwest Key's Residential Treatment model was designed in response to the need for secure residential treatment options for youth in a community-based setting. Realizing the valiant efforts that court officers extend daily to keep youth in safe home environments, we offer our youth highly structured and safe programming designed to equip them, their families and their caseworkers with tools to safely reintegrate them back into their homes and communities. It is designed to provide a very secure, structured therapeutic milieu for extremely difficult or hard-to-place youth. These programs have been extremely successful, achieving positive graduation rates in excess of 90 percent.
Southwest Key currently operations a Residential Treatment Center called La Esperanza Home for Boys in Combes, Texas. La Esperanza is a twenty-six bed residential treatment program for boys ranging from ages 12 to 17 years old. The program is listed on the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission's "509 List" of Title IV-E Approved Facilities and is uniquely equipped to provide residential and therapeutic services as a placement alternative for courts.
Program Types
Residential Treatment Centers and Services
Current Program Locations
La Esperanza Home for Boys in Combes (near Brownsville), South Texas
Population Served
Southwest Key's Residential Treatment Services are specifically designed for youth with specialized needs. Through a creative, innovative approach to programming and treatment we can provide "hard-to-place" youth with opportunities and with the skills to successfully re-enter the community and avoid further delinquency. Our population includes youth with high treatment needs whose best interest would be served and whose welfare would be ensured if placed outside of their home.
About the Program Model
We offer a safe and respectful learning environment through quality programming, professional staffing and regular training as caregivers. An overview of our quality programming provided to youth during the course of a day includes educational services provided by a professionally certified teaching staff, life skills groups and a gender specific fatherhood initiative program, therapeutic recreational and sports activities, and prevocational and job readiness training are only a few ways our youth self-esteem is raised and self-efficacy is enhanced.
Program Components
24 Hour Supervision and Support
Staff Secure Living Environment
Educational Programming
Food and Health Services
Individual and Group Counseling
Recreational Programming
Behavior Management
Life Skills Training
Family Involvement Activities
Pre-Vocational Services
Discharge Planning
For more information about this program model, contact:
Alexia Rodriguez
Chief Program Officer, Residential and Shelter Programs
Southwest Key Programs
arodriguez@swkey.org
512.462.2181
