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BCFS Health and Human Services (formerly Baptist Child and Family Services) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) organization based in San Antonio, Texas, specializing in emergency shelter, foster care, and adoption. It was founded as an orphanage for Hispanic children in 1944. [1]
2012: DePelchin expanded its footprint beyond Houston by merging with Caring Family Network, a foster care and adoption agency with offices in Austin, San Antonio, and Lubbock. 2022: The Boards of DePelchin Children’s Center and the Foundation for DePelchin Children’s Center assumed the campus assets of Today’s Harbor for Children in LaPorte.
In 1969, several of San Antonio’s inner-city churches banded together to launch "Urban Ministries", and initiated programs such as food bank and housing for seniors and runaway youths. [4] In 1977, the scope of housing programs was expanded to include individuals with mental illness . [ 4 ]
A 2004 report by Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn was very critical of the Texas foster care system. [10] A follow-up statement with continued criticisms of the Texas foster care system was made in 2006 by the Comptroller and renewed a request to have the governor create a Family and Protective Services Crisis Management Team. [11]
In 2020, there were 407,493 children in foster care in the United States. [14] 45% were in non-relative foster homes, 34% were in relative foster homes, 6% in institutions, 4% in group homes, 4% on trial home visits (where the child returns home while under state supervision), 4% in pre-adoptive homes, 1% had run away, and 2% in supervised independent living. [14]
The National Council for Adoption named its Washington, D.C., headquarters after Piester (named the Ruby Lee Piester Center) in 1995. The then Texas Governor George W. Bush asked her to serve on a special committee to improve the Texas foster care system, and she was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame. [12]