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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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Impact a life this Christmas
Volunteer opportunities across Texas
The holiday season can bring joy, excitement and special time with loved ones. But for some vulnerable families, the Christmas season can remind them...
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Three Buckner Family Pathways™ graduates embark on new adventures
Dallas staff and friends gathered to celebrate
On Nov. 11, Buckner staff, volunteers, community members and former Buckner Family Pathways™ alumni gathered to celebrate three new graduates from...
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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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Learning the meaning of love
Buckner Family Pathways™ graduate now shows other women they are loved
Connie is a graduate of Buckner Family Pathways™. While in the program, she gained important life skills such as maintaining a clean, safe home for...
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A blueprint for success
Single mother finds direction and hope at Buckner Family Pathways™
A few years ago, LaSherrell Hayes had never dreamed she’d own her own house. As a single mother staying with a friend, the idea of home ownership...
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Finding worth and value through the Buckner Family Pathways™ program
Single mom shares her story in her own words
At Buckner International, we are committed to providing support to families to chase goals and learn their worth. Through the Buckner Family...
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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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Helping children learn perseverance in today’s world
How to nurture your children's superpowers
Meet Patrice. Her superpower is perseverance.
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