LET'S CREATE LOVE BRIDGES
FOR CHILDREN

Let’s Create love bridges for children

Bridging the Gap of Care

Thousands of children in the Texas’ foster care system require temporary out-of-home care because of parental neglect, abuse, or exploitation. The largest percentages are African American and Latino children. Some stay in foster care for weeks; some for years. The children are of all ages and varying needs. Foster parents provide a supportive and stable family for children who cannot live with their birth parents until family problems are resolved. In most cases, foster parents work with social services staff to reunite the child with birth parents. Foster parents often provide care to many different children.

About Us

Our Commitment to Foster Care and Adoption

Bridges is a private, non-profit Foster Care and Adoption Child Placing Agency with the State of Texas. Our agency provides stable, home-based placements for children and teens in Texas’ foster care system. The agency’s focus is to provide effective therapeutic intervention to families while providing stabilization and security to each child placed in the home. Families prepare children for family reunification with their families when possible or to provide long-term placement alternatives and adoptions.

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Our Philosophy

Building Bridges of Support

Be the BRIDGE between a child and the world. Become a consistent connector that provides guidance, support and healthy environments to allow every child to heal, thrive and achieve as they enter adulthood.

We realize that entering foster care is very traumatic for every child. This sudden removal is traumatizing and disturbing both psychologically and physically. We are specialized trained parents to assist and support our children through this transition in care, contribute to their growth and stabilization and prepare them for family reunification or adoption.

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Why People Choose Bridges to Love

You are needed. There are more than 27,000 youth currently in the Texas foster care system. These children and teens are living outside their birth homes under the care of the public and private child welfare system. All these young people deserve to grow up with the security, guidance, and support only a family environment provides. What’s more, they deserve to know their community cares about their mental and physical safety as they become adults.

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The preferred placement of children who require out-of-home care is with relatives. Kinship Placement is a placement with family members (other than the biological parents. It is typically a grandparent, aunt or uncle, or an older sibling who is of legal age. Kinship Placement means placing a child with close relatives rather than an unrelated caregiver. Because a kinship placement is one that has a previous relationship between the caregiver and the family, it is often easier for the kinship placement to be approved. If kinship is approved, it is strongly encouraged that kinship caregivers become licensed parents.
If a home with relatives is not a possibility, foster parents and other caretakers provide a supportive and stable environment for children who cannot live with their birth parents until family problems are resolved. In most cases, the foster parents and care providers work with social services staff to reunite the child with birth parents. Foster parents often provide care to many different children. Children who require out-of-home care generally come under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. The juvenile dependency process involves a series of hearings and case reviews which may result in foster care placement.
A forever home is needed to provide security, stability and support for children. Once parental rights have been terminated, these children can be adopted and forever a part of your family. It is our goal to provide permanency to each child that enters the foster care system, whether it be family reunification or adoption. If interested in becoming an adoptive parent, you must be a licensed parent to be considered for adoption placements.

Want to help, unsure how?

Respite care providers give temporarily relief for foster parents, enabling them to a much needed break or vacation. Respite care can take place in your own home or their residence. Whether it’s for a few hours a week or extended vacation, seeking respite care can help ease some of the challenges of being a fulltime caregiver and help to relieve stress, restore energy, and promote balance in their daily lives. It can also prevent exhaustion, isolation and even burn out. Respite care is a way to support parents who care for our children daily.

What We Do

Everyone Deserves Our Best Services

Volunteer Opportunities

Bridges provides a safe place, loving homes and promising futures for abused and neglected children and teens.
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Donations

We are a federally-recognized 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization and donations are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.
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Mentorship

Are you a parent, guardian or caring adult and feel that a child or teenager could benefit from a mentor? Mentors are supportive individuals who build relationships with young people by offering them guidance,
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