Promoting
Promoting the vision that everyone can have a part in helping foster children in Houston achieve normalcy and permanency.
Entrusted Houston meets the needs of the foster and adopt community to promote restoration for kids, families, and front line workers in Jesus’ name.
Entrusted Houston was born out of a church ministry to help provide support for foster/adoptive families in the Houston area. Over the years it has grown beyond the church activities and is now a 501(c)(3) organization providing support to foster/adoptive families, Child Protective Services (CPS) and biological families across Houston in a variety of capacities. Entrusted Houston intends to continue their current programs and also develop new ones as the needs arise until every child has a permanent home. Entrusted Houston exists to unite, empower and mobilize churches and individuals across greater Houston to support CPS, foster children, biological families, and foster/adoptive families. We will do this by:
Organizing
Organizing regional networks of churches to put on an annual appreciation dinner for CPS workers in Region 6A.
Helping
Helping support foster/adoptive families through providing basic needs.
Hosting
Hosting trauma informed care training for anyone caring for children from hard places to help them better understand the children’s needs.
Providing
Helping raise funds to provide new car seats, beds, and sometimes appliances for biological families and foster families.
Building
Building external support for networks from churches and organizations across the city.
Raising
Raising awareness of foster care needs in Houston, specifically Region 6A.
Ensuring
Ensuring church mobilization to support this effort until every child has a home.
Foster/Adoptive Family Support
Entrusted Houston will be providing services to foster families and adoptive families to help ensure placement stability for children. In some cases, Entrusted will provide services in the form of items donated such as clothing, shoes, furniture, new car seats, and school supplies. Entrusted Houston will also host trauma informed training given by professionals specializing in working with children in foster care.
Anchored in Hope Retreat
This year we are partnering again with Anchored in Hope Retreat for foster and adoptive mothers. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with other moms parenting children from hard places, and to connect with God through fellowship.
For more information about the retreat, visit their website here.
Family Support Group and Dinner
We had a great time at our first Family Support Group and Dinner! Connecting with other families while fostering is always time well spent, encouraging each other and sharing experiences. Look for our 2022 calendar of dates coming out soon!
CPS Support
Entrusted Houston helps CPS obtain items for their clients to help prevent removal of children from loving homes that need basic necessities for their children. Entrusted Houston is also currently helping replace furniture for visitation rooms that are outdated.
Appreciation Event
For three years, 2017-2019, we hosted a Child Protective Services Appreciation dinner. This is a time where front-line workers in the fight for child permanency, gather from around Harris County for a night of fun, food, and encouragement from our ministry and guest speakers.
Last year due to COVID-19, we were unable to celebrate the hard work they do like we had hoped to. However, we didn’t let the year go by without showing them some appreciation! On Oct. 16, 2020, we delivered personalized cookies and some words of encouragement to the main office in Harris County!
This year we joined together with DFPS leadership to provide a drive-thru appreciation event! Entrusted Houston sponsored lunch from one of Houston’s favorite food trucks, Whatcha Cravin’! We had a great turnout, and we are looking forward to the event we are already planning for 2022!
DFPS Caseworker Christmas
Last year was our 6th year helping CPS provide gifts for children in care. Due to the pandemic, we worked out a new way to get gifts to the children by having the workers “shop” for the families and then deliver them. Through the generous support of so many, we were able to help provide gifts for over 850 children! We decided to use the same process this year and collect gifts for 1000 children! We are holding our first ever Caseworker Christmas on December 14th and 16th. On these two days, the caseworkers will come to choose gifts for the children on their caseload. If you would like to help us with our toy drive, you can financially donate through the link at the top of our page. To order a gift off our Amazon Christmas Wish list, click here. (No need to worry about delivery address, this will deliver the gifts directly to us!)
Resource Center
The Entrusted Houston Resource Center provides needs for families such as foster, adoptive, biological, kinship, and fictive kinship. We are so grateful to our community of Cypress, TX for all of their donations that make this possible.
Volunteer
The Entrusted Houston Resource Center is open for volunteering every Tuesday and Thursday from 12pm – 2pm and the 4th Saturday of every month from 9am – 12pm.
Please check the Entrusted Houston Resource Center page for any changes in hours for holidays or emergencies.