Endeavors
Foster Parenting / Child Protective Services
www.dfps.state.tx.us/Adoption_and_Foster_Care/Get_Started/default.asp
There are many ways to be involved
- Foster or Adoption. dual license
- Emergency Care…usually only a few days at a time
- Respite Care….provide care while foster parents travel
CASA / Court Appointed Special Advocate
www.becomeacasa.org/what-is-casa
Independent Agency that provides advise to the court system regarding welfare of a child in care
- Objective view of children’s needs in foster care
- Involvement usually shortens time in foster care
- Provides consistency in a child’s case which can be often changing
- Lowers risk of children re-entering foster care
Lunch Buddy/Reading Buddy
http://www.irvingbible.org/fileadmin/ibc/ministries/externally_focused/Half_Hour_Heros3.pdf
Half Hour Heroes at Sam Houston Middle School
- 1/2 hour spent each week with a child
- Create consistency as an adult on a one on one level with a child
- Encourager and Mentor
- Just being there and listening to them is all many children need
Stewpot / Feeding the Homeless
www.thestewpot.org/volunteer.asp
Second Chance Cafe
- Serve a breakfast, lunch, or dinner
- 1 to 1 ½ hour’s commitment
- Sign up on line for one time or repeat
- Many other programs of involvement available thru Stewpot
- Delivered Pricing
Water Is Basic / Providing water to Sudan
www.waterisbasic.org
- Clean drink water is critical to survival
- Drilling wells to help end disease
- 100 wells have been drilled
- Each well transforms 1000-2000 people