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The quiet need in foster care
When we began our first steps toward getting involved in foster care, like most everyone else at that stage, we set out to become licensed to take...

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Volunteer: Serve children in foster care so parents can continue caring for them
In order to be a foster parent, adults must participate in regular training sessions where they learn how to best care for the children who have been...

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How to become a foster parent: What you need to know (part 2)
Part one of this series on how to become a foster parent covers the big picture—what is CPS, what is foster care, what you will need to do, etc....

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A broken system, a glimmer of hope
Child placing agency case managers are in this unusual position where they work hard to be supportive of children and families, but don’t have much...

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Foster care is in our DNA
Some traits are embedded so deeply into us as individuals and as a society that our actions and reactions are nearly unavoidable. We just can’t...

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How to become a foster parent: What you need to know (Part 1)
Foster care has been in the news regularly over the past several months due to a severe shortage of licensed homes. To many people, the foster care...

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Children in foster care need hope
Children in foster care often come from seemingly hopeless situations. ...

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National Foster Care Month video series
May is National Foster Care Month, an annual event dedicated to increasing awareness of the need for safe and loving families for children who have...

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Children in foster care need love
Most children in foster care do not know unconditional love. ...

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Friday photo: Day of prayer for foster care
On May 4, Buckner held a state-wide day of prayer for children in foster care, foster families and caseworkers. Here are photos from around Texas.

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