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‘Concert for Love’ will be on Sunday, October 1 at Dosey Doe - The Big Barn. The doors open at 5 p.m. A portion of the ticket sales will go to Love Heals Youth to support the mental health services and other missions rendered to foster youth and home

Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has awarded 4Kids4Families, a division of Arrow Child & Family Ministries, the contract to become the Single Source Continuum Contractor (SSCC) for the Piney Woods area of Texas DFPS Region 4. Beginning March 1, 4Kids4Families will work with DFP

As Bexar County foster care system plunges deeper into turmoil, what happens next? Area foster parents say it had become apparent Family Tapestry was not running smoothly Updated:  Tags:  SAN ANTONIO – As a flurry of bills were being discussed at the Texas Legislature last week, even state representatives were forced to acknowledge Texas’ current foster care quandary — how do you continue to streamline and privatize the system while also increasing oversight of it? A proposed bill in th...

Children’s Shelter furloughs 68 after state pauses child placement Tags:  CPS issues requirements for San Antonio childrens shelter to reopen SAN ANTONIO – The Children’s Shelter announced Wednesday that it plans to furlough 68 employees at its emergency shelter after the state put an indefinite hold on placing children at that facility. The furloughs will begin on May 5, according to a news release, and the shelter expects to extend them for “approximately 60 days, hoping to get resol...

Share this article Share this article DALLAS, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- One year ago, 3-year-old Amari Boone was brought to a childrens hospital in Fort Worth experiencing respiratory failure. Within two days, he would be dead. Medical personnel and an autopsy determined that Amaris death was the result of abuse while in the Texas foster care system and under the watch of ACH Child and Family Services (or ACH) and its community-based care division that goes by the name our community. our...