Change 1 Seed Grant Recipient

Foster Care, Homelessness

Change1 aims to support youth in foster care for them to reach their fullest potential. The organization recognizes that many youths are unprepared when they leave the foster care system as one out of every four will become homeless within four years. Their new...

Bright and funny, this teen looking for his forever family loves to skate and play music

Foster Care

KVUE- AUSTIN, Texas — Laced up and ready to skate!  Blake, 16, loves to put on his rollerblades and ride around thinking about life. As he rides, he thinks about the family that will someday bring him home for good. He is a tough teen with a grit to him. When he fell...

She grew up in foster care, then opened a shelter. Now she’s a 2021 Remarkable Woman

Foster Care, Local

SOURCE: KXAN by: Kate Winkle We asked you to tell us about inspiring women in your life. We went through hundreds of nominations in our Remarkable Women contest. Now, we’ve named our Remarkable Woman of the Year. AUSTIN (KXAN) — By the time she was 14, Stacy Johnson...

Foster Village Growth Grant Program Overview

Foster Care, Local

Most children who exit foster care either return home to their birth families or exit into the custody of biological relatives (roughly 70% in Central Texas in 2019). Yet, there is a huge gap in post-reunification services available to help sustain birth families....

Staff at children’s home adapts, overcomes power outages and frigid temps to keep kids fed

Foster Care, Local

SOURCE: AUSTIN (KXAN) — When the power went out at the Helping Hand Home for Children, a facility that cares for abused children, the temperature started to drop inside the building. “It got as cold as 33,” said Chris Janawicz, who is the director of residential...

rom debt to wed: Former foster youth grows through lessons learned in financial literacy, friendship.

Foster Care, Local

Source: Luz Moreno-Lozano Austin American-Statesman From being overdrawn on a bank account by nearly $1,000 to being able to buy her first car and now saving for a wedding, Mandy Donaldson has learned the meaning of financial management while trying to balance work...