Community Perspectives: A Disaster Plan
Before you begin working on preparing a disaster plan for your physical needs, you MUST take care of your spiritual needs first!
Community Perspectives: Broader Pictures
Broader Pictures by Rhett Lively What time I spent in college, I studied music and psychology. At the time I dreamed of opening a clinic where a couple of friends of mine and I would work on the whole person’s needs – one the body, one the spirit, and I’d take the mind. I felt
We Need Local Homes for Foster Children
Local Foster Care Capacity The ability to serve children in our communities has always been an issue for us in West Texas. Region 9 - the 30-county administrative region comprising West Texas and stretching from Loving County to Mason County - ranked dead last in the placement of foster children within their region and their
Permian Basin CPS Giving Tree
Permian Basin non-profits One Accord for Kids and The Attic Foster Network have partnered with DFPS to ensure local children in CPS and foster care receive Christmas gifts.
Week in Review – November 20
Foster Care and Child Welfare Week in Review - November 20, 2020 Here are some news items from this week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught my eye: 1. As COVID-19 Takes its Toll, Remember Kids in Foster Care (Commentary) Let's look at the Lone Star State. Comprising 42 percent of
Counting Our Blessings
Counting Our Blessings to Cover Our Fears By Rhett Lively In caring for twenty-one children, we’ve noticed several common themes in their hearts and minds as they’ve come into our home: Fear, worry, doubt, and a lack of the ability to hope. Early on, one of our kiddos, who was six at the time, happened
Week in Review – November 13
Here are some news items from this week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye.
Week in Review – November 6
Here are some news items from this week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye.
Surviving Halloween
For foster kids, Halloween is hard and may trigger trauma. Here are five things we can do to head off triggers.
Support for Foster Parents Comes from their Community
Support for Foster Parents Comes from their Community George Lucas said it best, “creativity isn’t strictly a well of ideas, but an alchemy of people”. The creator of the “Star Wars” empire has found that our best does not come when we have a bunch of ideas in a pot but when we have