Every child deserves someone who stays.
Working at Sunny Glen Children's Home is hard, meaningful work. Some days ask everything of you. Others remind you exactly why you came.
The children who come to Sunny Glen have been let down by the adults who were supposed to protect them. When you work here, you become part of what happens next.
Whether you serve in direct care as a caregiver or youth care worker, in an administrative role, or in leadership, your work helps a hurting child find love, stability, and the safety to heal. Often it is the everyday moments — a shared meal, a patient answer, a promise kept — that a child remembers for the rest of their life.
As a faith-based nonprofit and a residential children's home, we look for people ready to be patient on the hard days and fully present for the good ones. Our children's home in San Benito, TX, sits in the Rio Grande Valley, and we work to make it a place where our staff grow right alongside the children in our care.
If you have been waiting for a career in childcare or child welfare that asks the most of you and gives back even more, take a look at our current job openings below. Your work here would matter. We would be glad to meet you.
How We Care for Children
Sunny Glen's whole program is built on Trust-Based Relational Intervention, or TBRI, a trauma-informed, evidence-based model for caring for children who have lived through abuse, neglect, and broken trust. You don't need to arrive knowing it. Every caregiver is trained in TBRI, with training refreshed every month, so you will learn how to do this work well and keep growing at it.
TBRI rests on three principles that will shape your days here:
We meet a child's physical and emotional needs first, because a child who is hungry, tired, or afraid cannot heal. Steady routines, good nutrition, and a predictable day do more than they look like they do.
We build real relationships through presence, patience, and play. Trust is earned in small moments: using a child's name, making eye contact, finding a reason to laugh together.
We guide behavior by teaching, not punishing. We help children learn to name what they feel, steady themselves, and make better choices, meeting each child right where they are.
We build our training around this model, and we look for people who want to learn it. This is work that changes children, and it will change you too. When we do it well, we give each child what they came here for: a place of hope.