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01/14/2026

01/09/2026

It's time to show how Collin County cares for kids! We have a significant shortage of foster and adoptive families for kids in need of a safe home and family. Join us on February 7 at the Collin College Conference Center in McKinney to learn how you can open your home to care for kids. Click here to register: https://embracetexas.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/embracetexas/event.jsp?event=393&

01/05/2026

We're teaming up with Texas' First Lady, the Governor's Office and faith communities across Texas for a Week of Prayer to combat child s*x trafficking. 🙏💔 Join us Jan. 5-11 to support survivors. Visit gov.texas.gov/GRACE for daily prayer intentions & resources!

01/04/2026

12/24/2025

Some children won’t respond right away.
Not to guidance, not to reason, not to the gentle nudges we hope will land.

And when a child feels unreachable,
it’s easy to believe we’re failing —
that if they aren’t listening, we aren’t leading.

But sometimes the truth is simpler:
maybe we can’t teach them yet,
but we can love them.

Because love is what softens what’s guarded.
It’s what steadies what’s overwhelmed.
It’s what reaches the parts of them
that logic and instruction can’t touch.

And when they feel that love —
consistent, patient, unwithdrawn —
something opens.
Something shifts.
A little trust forms where resistance used to live.

And if we can love them today,
maybe tomorrow they’ll be able to hear us,
learn from us,
and let us in.

Not because we pushed harder,
but because we stayed close
when closeness was the thing they needed most. ❤️

Quote Credit: Jeffrey R. Holland ❣️

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12/18/2025

90% of children with complex trauma will be misdiagnosed.

Ninety. Percent.

They’ve been starved, neglected, screamed at, abandoned, assaulted.
They’ve learned to survive in chaos, to shut down or explode, to mask pain with anger or silence.

And the system looks at that and says:
ODD.
ADHD.
Bipolar.
Attachment disorder.
Conduct disorder.
Oppositional.
Defiant.
Manipulative.

But where in that stack of diagnoses is the label: traumatized child?

Where is the note that says:
“Has never felt safe.”
“Doesn’t know what trust is.”
“Has been failed by every adult in their life and is still trying.”

Where is the grace?
Where is the context?

Because if you spent your whole childhood learning that love disappears and food isn’t guaranteed and pain comes from the people who are supposed to protect you—
You’d probably flinch at affection, too.
You’d probably hoard snacks, lie before you’re accused, and test every limit just to see if this time, finally, someone walks away.

And yet instead of healing, we pathologize.
Instead of understanding, we medicate.
Instead of support, we label.

This is why I fight.
Why I advocate.
Why I read the case files and ask the hard questions and say, “What happened to them?” before I ever ask, “What’s wrong with them?”

Because 90% of kids in care are carrying pain misread as personality.
And they deserve more than a diagnosis.
They deserve to be seen.

12/11/2025

12/05/2025

I still have 10 spots open.

11/24/2025

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A gift for our Foster and Adoptive families. Sign up Genius must be utilized to reserve your tickets.

Please join us for the North Texas Performing Arts production of Scrooge the Musical. These tickets are complimentary and part of the annual Gift to Community performance. Please sign up for the number of tickets you will need so they can be reserved for you in advance. Attendees without a ticket wi...