The Families We Serve

Every day in Houston, children experience moments of crisis that can change the course of their lives. Some enter care with little more than the clothes on their backs. Others face the risk of being separated from their families simply because caregivers lack the basics to provide a safe and stable home.

Entrusted Houston began by primarily serving foster and adoptive families, but today most of the families we serve are kinship caregivers—grandparents, relatives, or close family friends—and biological parents working with DFPS to keep their children safely at home and prevent removal. These families often receive no state subsidy, yet they are doing everything they can to provide stability and love for children in their care. Entrusted steps into the gap buy providing the essentials needed so children can remain safe, connected, and surrounded by trusted caregivers.

When Crisis Hits

Kinship caregivers step into crisis with little or no warning. A grandparent or close friend may receive a late-night call from CPS asking them to take in a child. Parents in FBSS are doing everything possible to stabilize their homes so their children never have to be removed. Foster families, too, live with the reality that the phone may ring at any moment, and they must be ready to welcome a child into their home with only hours’ notice.

In each of these situations, stability is only possible when families have access to the basics.

That is where you come in.

Your support provide beds, clothing, car seats, diapers, hygiene products, and furniture that make it possible for children to remain safe and cared for by trusted caregivers.

Why Stability Matters

On average, children in foster care experience four different placements and wait 19.5 months to achieve permanency. Each unnecessary move adds to their trauma, making it harder to heal and thrive. Our programs stabilize these vulnerable situations, giving children the best chance to remain connected to people they know and to find permanency sooner.

Our programs stabilize these vulnerable situations, giving children the best chance to remain with safe caregivers and to find permanency sooner.

A Safe Place at Just the Right Time

We also serve children without placement (CWOP) who might otherwise spend the night in CPS offices or hotels. Recently, two siblings were brought to our Bunkhouse after CPS exhausted every effort to find them an immediate placement. Entrusted was able to provide them with a safe and welcoming place to land.

Because of supporters like you, those children experienced a peaceful night’s sleep and received the essentials they needed until a more permanent placement was secured the next day.

No Limits on Love

Beyond DFPS Entrusted Houston also partners with ministries that serve veterans, refugees, individuals experiencing homelessness, women escaping sex trafficking, and low-income schools. For us, there are no limits. If there is a need and we can meet it, we will.

Your Yes Matters

Across every program, the mission is the same: to give children the best chance at permanency, stability, and healing.