If you’ve ever considered fostering a child, check out this interview with Carrying Hope‘s co-founder and president Kristin Finan as she shares how fostering has positively impacted her family in more ways than she could have ever imagined. “It will change your life,” says Finan, one of two Carrying Hope co-founders who are certified foster parents through Helping HandContinue reading “October 2017- KXAN Features Foster Mom, Kristin Finan”
Congratulations to our 2017-2018 Helping Hand Home Board President Ann Bauer for her staring role in Kelly Wynne Ferguson’s “Portrait of a Boss Lady” series! Kelly is highlighting one amazing, total BOSS per month showing how they #daretowynne through their work, philanthropy, faith, relationships, etc in hopes of empowering other women to have the confidence toContinue reading “October 2017-“Portrait of a Boss Lady” Features Board President”
Tournament officials announced today that the 2017 World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play Championship generated more than $1.1 million for five Austin-based organizations– Austin Parks Foundation, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area, The First Tee of Greater Austin and national chapters, Helping Hand Home for Children and Keep Austin Beautiful. We are extremelyContinue reading “September 2017- Dell Technologies Match Play Check Presentation”
Helping Hand Home for Children was honored to have been chosen as one of five beneficiaries for the 2017 World Golf Championships- Dell Technologies Match Play this past March. Sixty-four top-ranked professional golfers came from around the world to play in Dell’s hometown at the beautiful Austin Country Club March 22nd through March 26th. SinceContinue reading “September 2017- Dell Technologies Match Play Charity Check Presentation”
Helping Hand Home for Children has achieved national accreditation through the New York-based Council on Accreditation (COA). Helping Hand Home for Children provides the following services: residential treatment, foster care, adoption and family support. It took Helping Hand Home fourteen months to achieve accreditation. Organizations pursue accreditation to demonstrate the implementation of best practice standardsContinue reading “June- 2017 COA Accreditation”
If you had told me a year ago this would be my life, there is no way I would have believed it. Enemies turned family. Strangers turned sons. Promises turned reality. Life can be so crazy. And so beautiful. Through it all, I think I’ve learned something. Maybe, for every crushing heartbreak we endure, there’sContinue reading “May 2017- Heartbreak and Hope Part Four”
“I, too, worked to adjust to my new role as a mom of four, which included sleeping in two-hour increments, researching minivans at 4 a.m. and searching constantly for my keys, which were invariably still in the front door where I had left them the night before. It was juggling work and day care andContinue reading “May 2017- Heartbreak and Hope Part Three”
“She arrived on a Friday night wearing a polka-dot party dress that was two sizes too big, her hair just washed in a bathroom sink by the CPS caseworker who had been watching her for six hours as calls went out to see if any foster homes could take her. The caseworker had wanted toContinue reading “May 2017- Heartbreak and Hope Part Two”
“Over Sonic milkshakes and swimming pool visits, we’d plan out fishing trips and talk about our hopes for the future. Because he had moved around so much, he was behind in school and took multiple pills a day for ailments he couldn’t name. Sometimes, he said, other kids would make fun of him for beingContinue reading “May 2017- Heartbreak & Hope Part One”
For 1,445 days Mark and Anna Polanco opened their home and their hearts to 17 different children with varying histories, behaviors, and needs. All of these children had two things in common. Whether short or long term, they all needed safe and loving adults to care for them and a place to call home. TheContinue reading “April 2017-Mark and Anna Polanco Celebrate Adoption— Featured in Community Impact Newspaper”
Helping Hand Home for Children would like to extend a huge thank you to 13 area Jersey Mike’s Subs throughout the Austin area and to all those who participated in the 7th Annual March “Month of Giving” fundraising campaign to raise awareness and support for children who have suffered severe abuse and neglect. In just one day,Continue reading “March 2017- Jersey Mike’s Subs raises $38, 265 for HHH”
Helping Hand Home for Children is honored to once again be one of five beneficiaries for the World Golf Championships-Dell Match Play Tournament. The 2017 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play officially kicks off tomorrow, March 22–26 at Austin Country Club. Support received from this meaningful partnership will allow Helping Hand Home to serve over 350 childrenContinue reading “March 2017- World Golf Championships Dell Match Play 2017”