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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...
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...
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...
A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh … the fundamentals things of life as time goes by
“I was 16 years old when I saw Walter working that day in the Woolworth’s five and dime, and I knew he was the man for me,”...
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...
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...
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...
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....
10 ways to be a good father: Advice from grandfathers to young dads
With Father's Day coming up, we thought it would be fun to hear from some of the grandfathers who live in our Buckner senior living communities about...
What can I do?
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Texas foster care system has been in headlines all over the state. There has been a shortage of foster families and an increase in the...