Children’s Shelter laying off entire division amid abuse allegations

SAN ANTONIO – Editor’s note: This story was published through a partnership between the San Antonio Business Journal and KSAT.

Local nonprofit The Children’s Shelter will lay off its Family Tapestry division, CEO Annette Rodriguez wrote in a letter to the Texas Workforce Commission.

Its 93 affected full-time employees’ last day of employment will be July 13.

Family Tapestry and its foster care facility, the Whataburger Center for Children and Youth, have had numerous allegations of abuse, neglect and standards violation that eventually led to the center’s closure by the state toward the end of March, local television station KSAT reported.

Read more about the layoffs at the San Antonio Business Journal.

Also on KSAT:

• Children’s Shelter furloughs 68 after state pauses child placement
• KSAT Q&A: Where did the children go? Impact of foster kids being removed from care of The Children’s Shelter
• ‘We need some flexibility’: Youth-serving nonprofit CEO says more support needed in foster care capacity crisis