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‘No one should have to live like that’

Do you ever look at a child and think to yourself, "Wow, no one, especially not an innocent child, should have to live like that?" If the answer...
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Mom: ‘I couldn’t stop smiling’ after seeing my kids wearing new shoes

Santa has been working as a janitor for four years, earning about $150 a month to support her family. Her ex-husband occasionally gives her $5, but with...
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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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Hope Center ‘Family Fest’ beats the heat, educates families

DALLAS - Families and volunteers from across the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex gathered together for Buckner Family Hope Center at Wynnewood’s annual Family Festival on June 17, which included...
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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 placed in their...
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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...
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Faith Focus: Prayer requests

Antonio Galeno knew how to cut hair. He even knew how to get new clients for his young business. He just didn’t know how to run the...
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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 decision-making power...
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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 help ourselves....
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