Texas Baptist Home for Children
Contact Information
629 Farley Street
Waxahachie, TX 75165
United States
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Waxahachie, TX 75165
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | 8 AM-4 PM |
| Tuesday | 8 AM-4 PM |
| Wednesday | 8 AM-4 PM |
| Thursday | 8 AM-4 PM |
| Friday | 8 AM-4 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
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We believe the family is a beautiful picture to our world from God about how He loves and cares for each of us. The family is a love story that is sent straight from Heaven, and it is our Christian responsibility to see to it that this story never dies. He has called the staff, supporters, and volunteers of The Texas Baptist Home for Children to fight for the preservation of the sanctity of the family.
Our mission: Caring families by offering stability, discovering self-worth, and achieving true healing in Christ
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Specialized / Therapeutic 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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Nov 12, 2019
This is a Non Christian Agency! We have been with them two years and I will tell you that upper management doesn’t care about any of there individuals. We adopted a 21 month old and not 1 upper management said congrats or anything. We moved on campus and right away started having bites on us. We’re not sure where they were coming from. So we moved into another house and it got worse. Come to find out it was bed bugs! So they treated the house three times. Each time we had to leave for a night or two, board our dogs at our own cost. So now we got so fed up we purchased a house and gave notice. Woke up one morning and my son who is 21 months old had bites lol over him which we took pictures and notes and dated. Sent all this information to upper management and no response. Finally I followed up with maintenance and they said in a week they would review the issues. I told them I was going to lose over $15000 worth of furniture and requested $2500 for all of the stuff we are losing. They said they will have a meeting on Wednesday. Well here it is Tuesday and they denied my request. Very unprofessional and don’t care about anything but the next family to come into the house and bring them money. I would not recommend this agency to anyone if you are going to live on campus. Randy Odom (Vice President) doesn’t respond to emails at all. Jason Curry President, puts everything on other people. I will be taking this up with the trustees and anyone else I know. The only people that are worth anything are the case manages but even they don’t stay long with them. These people allowed a 21 month old to get bit nightly and not respond to my emails about helping us after the 3rd treatment which they promise would fix the issue. Well no it didn’t. My kid has to suffer along with a bunch of other kids. It’s a shame that all the Christian stuff in front of people is exactly that “A Front”. Please do yourself a favor and find an agency that really goes out of their way to help you.
Jun 02, 2018
My husband was raised at the Home. It was a wonderful caring and loving environment. He is the man he is today because of the people and Farley Baptist church.
God bless all that are Associated with the home.
We will be having our homecoming June the 9th looking forward to seeing all the x's and everyone at the
Home. Bridget Pickard
Apr 07, 2017
This place creates opportunities to develop a new life for all who chose to decide to use this place.
Our story is one that we were unable to have children the natural way. Some years later we decided to go adoption route.
They have an orientation to present the different opportunities and what to expect.
TBH is a foster, foster-to-adopt, adoption. We chose adoption.
Next was a meeting for a decision of special needs, siblings, mixed race, infant or older children, also the choices of open, semi-open, semi-closed, & closed.
The first thing was home-study, background check, medical history & also CPR cert. Also there is the basic financial requirement.
We were to create a "welcome letter" & a small "scrap book" inviting a potential mother to release their child into our care.
They conducted meetings monthly on various training topics. We were to have a certain amount of hours before formal adoption.
Long story short we received a call that a mother had decided to adopt out right as she was there at the hospital. We rushed over as soon as the news.
We decided to leave the status open adoption so that there was a comfort of seeing their child taken care of.
We now have included them in our lives as much as they are comfortable with. Our now 2 year old knows very well that she has two mommies, two daddies, & two sets of family. We are actually going to meet up again with the birthdad this evening.
This place created this opportunity
Dec 24, 2016
Did get much help,I gave up a life for gosh sake. It was suppose to be an open adoption but my 2 kids and I see him less and less,stopped getting regular updates, the couple said they were gonna make sure the baby grew up knowing who I was,but instead he seems scared of me and no one else,they have changed contact numbers so who knows if they have moved too. The agency was supposed to keep in contact too,but nothing from them after the baby turned a year old.