Foster Care and Adoption
A dream come true
Family adopts twin brothers right before Christmas
Even when Bekah and Troy Webster were dating, they knew they wanted to include adoption into their family plan. After having two biological children,...
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Keeping kids together through kinship care
Buckner provides opportunities for kinship care to help maintain familiar relationships
Foster care can create deep wounds in a child due to loss of family, separation from what they’ve known and facing a new normal including new...
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Help these Waiting Texas Children find forever homes through adoption
In Texas, more than 1,000 youth age out of foster care each year
For the past 25 years, the United States has honored the month of November as National Adoption Month. This is a time many adoptive families, adopted...
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Meet Ja'Niya: A teen about to age out of the foster care system
There are more than 7,000 children waiting to be adopted in Texas
Ja’Niya is 17 years old. Soon, she will age out of the foster care system if she is not adopted.
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Buckner International collaborates with Olive Crest's Child Abuse Prevention Network and Mission Foods to benefit vulnerable children
Aligning to serve abused, neglected children
Buckner International loves aligning with other nonprofit organizations that share our mission to serve vulnerable children and families. Buckner...
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Beaumont Foundation surpasses $2 million in total contributions for children in foster care
16 years of annual donations to Buckner has provided new clothing for more than 11,000 Texas children
Following the second installment of its $95,700 donation pledge for 2022, the Beaumont Foundation of America (BFA) surpassed $2 million in total...
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A call to serve local families
Arlington family finds purpose through Buckner foster care and adoption
Originally from Chile, the concept of foster care was new to the Faundez family. But they felt the Lord placing it on their hearts more and more.
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More than 350 Buckner families attend Marvel-themed baseball games
This summer, families enjoyed fellowship and celebrated their superheroes
We already knew kids are superheroes ... but a picture is worth a thousand words. Check out some of these amazing superheroes with their families...
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Setting the standard
How Buckner is evolving in an ever-changing world
From 1879 until 1952, Buckner was led by someone with the name Buckner. When our founder, R.C. Buckner died in 1919, he passed the torch to his sons...
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Breaking generational cycles
Buckner Family Pathways™ mom adopts her little brother
Brooklyn Cole was there as a pre-teen sister when her little brother Anthony was born. She even cut his umbilical cord. More than 10 years later,...
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