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Returning starfish to the ocean
National Child Abuse Prevention Month: Building strong and healthy families is key to prevention
Most of us have heard of the starfish story. An old man is walking along the beach and sees a boy throwing starfish on the sand back into the ocean,...
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Four ways to share the Easter story with your children
At Easter, we celebrate how Christ died and was resurrected from the grave to save us, his children, from death as sinners. As adults, we understand...
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Don't forget where God is
A devotion for Easter
Our world has mastered how to create and force feed distractions and influences. Many of these distractions have pushed our eyes away from the cross,...
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Today is National Sibling Day
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services reports that more than 6,000 sibling groups in the state of Texas are currently in foster...
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A Kenyan female’s perspective on period poverty – World Health Day
Lack of feminine hygiene products affects education, finances and relationships
Linet Aguma is the program manager at the Buckner Family Hope Center™ in Kenya. Today on World Health Day, she explains how period poverty is...
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Responding to the needs of children and families in Ukraine
Many of us have watched with great concern over the cost of human lives, disruption, and the flood of refugees fleeing their homes for their survival...
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Family conversations about child abuse and neglect
A key to prevention
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Juanita Alonzo, a FAYS Case manager at Buckner International and a Universal Child Abuse Prevention...
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God's plan: You are chosen
A devotion about trusting God's plan
In September 2017, I was laid off from my job of 10 years. By nature, I am a planner. So, you could imagine how I felt when my so-called plan had...
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The Buckner movement
Responding to the needs of vulnerable children, families and seniors.
From our beginning, Buckner has always been a movement, responding to the needs of vulnerable children, families and seniors.
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What is period poverty and why should people care?
On any given day there are any number of worries that may cross a female’s mind … but should one of those worries be about having access to...
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