Providence Place- San Antonio Information

Founded in 1895, by the owner of a San Antonio Brothel, Madame Volino, who experienced a life-changing conversion and turned her home into a rescue mission, saving young women from San Antonio’s “red light district.” With help from the Methodist Church, she reinvented it in the early 1900’s to provide adoption services to women facing an unplanned pregnancy. Providence Place transformed again in the mid 1970’s and provided vocational education services to young adults with hearing disabilities. Vocational educational services expanded in the early 1980’s and served young adults with varying disabilities until 2018. Today, Providence Place remains a faith-based, non-profit providing multipurpose programming to adult survivors of violence, women facing an unplanned pregnancy, families with young children and youth in foster care. Providence Place helps with education, job search, diapers, formula, and therapeutic counseling services to move individuals beyond day to day survival, through the programs. Providence Place wants everyone to have the opportunity to envision a different future and transform their future story.