Hope Cottage, Inc.
We nurture the strong families and relationships that communities are built on.
Our mission is to transform lives with the love of family through adoption, foster care, education and parenting support. For more than 100 years, Hope Cottage has nurtured loving families in all their forms - because they are the essential links to a strong future for all of us.Are you looking for Pregnancy Care & Adoption Service Agencies in Dallas Texas? Contact Hope Cottage Center today & our counselors are available any time to help you sort through your choices.Founded as a children’s home more than 100 years ago, Hope Cottage is a nonprofit organization that nurtures the strong families and relationships that communities are built on.
Our Mission: To transform lives with the love of family through adoption, foster care, education and parenting support.
Our Vision: A safe, loving family for everyone.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
Adults who are new to the fostering process sometimes feel overwhelmed and wonder if they will have support on their journey. Your child-placing agency is the first resource. Social services caseworkers provide aspiring foster parents with various types of support and connections. These include free educational training programs, helplines, and support groups.
It is important that foster parents build their individual support network, too. Connecting with other foster families with more experience is an excellent place to begin. Texas groups offer foster parent meetups; you can search online for the closest one.
The Texas Foster Family Association provides state training, a regional directory of support services, a summer training conference, and more. Membership benefits include getting access to foster care professionals and learning more about ways to become better caregivers. Children of TFFA members can also get assistance through the Scholarship Fund.
Austin Angels is another support organization that strives to assist foster parents and Texas foster children. They offer care packages and gifts for foster children and their caregivers, mentorship options, and education, among other resources. Foster children and teens can learn valuable skills that help prepare them for independent living, as well.
Ratings and Reviews
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Aug 01, 2021
Helping adult adoptees should be included in the price of adoption, it makes no sense why someone who could find their birth parents for $100 with AncestryDNA or something similar is being asked to pay three times that, fill out and have things notarized, PLUS wait up to half a year when these services are available. Maybe Hope Cottage will consider revising this since it's not the only means to finding a birth family anymore, people aren't going to accept sky high prices and slower processing times than a Windows 99 on DSL. Findmyfamily.org does the same thing for more people and asks only for a $25.00 donation, no paperwork or notary needed. Why they think they can charge such an egregious amount for the exact same service (but limited only to THEIR agency whereas the other isn't) is beyond me.
Jun 30, 2021
My wife and I adopted our daughter from foster care in 2017. Hope Cottage supported us as foster parents. They helped us through the adoption process, and they continue to offer post adoption support. The Hope Cottage Foster Care team is fantastic!
Aug 29, 2019
We have had the pleasure and honor of working with Hope Cottage for almost 3 years. They are deeply invested in building relationships with their families and have become like family to us. They walk with us arm in arm through the fostering and adoption journey. Fostering is not an easy thing, but we have ALWAYS been above and beyond supported and looked after. If you are interested in fostering to adopt, Hope Cottage is the best place to be.
Apr 24, 2019
We asked whether we could do the orientation meeting outside of traditional work hours. Given the cost of adoption and the agency charges you'd think they would have the flexibility for people to do these meetings outside of work hours. Upon asking for this flexibility they told us to go to another agency.
Jun 13, 2018
As a former employee and volunteer, I cannot speak more highly of the work the board does to ensure ethical practices and compassion for all families who seek help and hope. They have a professional and skilled staff dedicated to the mission.