The Texas Foster Care Capacity Crisis and Its Solution This is part one of a two-part series about the ongoing capacity crisis in Texas foster care. Today's post will discuss the problem and its causes. The Texas foster care system is experiencing the worst capacity crisis in memory. Systemically, this means too few beds in
Before you begin working on preparing a disaster plan for your physical needs, you MUST take care of your spiritual needs first!
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
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 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.
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 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
Here are some news items from this week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye.
Here are some news items from this week related to foster care, adoption, and child welfare that caught our eye.
For foster kids, Halloween is hard and may trigger trauma. Here are five things we can do to head off triggers.
