Texas Kids Need Safe Homes: New Horizons Is Looking for Families
Across Texas, children enter foster care every day due to neglect, abuse, or trauma. When that moment happens, they don’t just need a place to stay. They need stability. They need patience. They need a safe home where they are genuinely cared for.
Texas Kids Need Stability - New Horizons Steps In
For more than 50 years, New Horizons Keeping Kids Safe has been changing the lives of children across the Lone Star State, including right here in Abilene and the Big Country. The Council on Accreditation nationally accredits them, and they are a TBRI Certified Agency, using a proven, trauma-informed approach that helps children heal through trust and connection.
These are kids who deserve to know what it feels like to walk into a home and feel safe. A home where they matter.
What New Horizons Provides
New Horizons keeps kids first. Their programs include:
- The Ranch (Brownwood area): A residential treatment program for children recovering from severe trauma.
- Audrey Grace House (Abilene): A community-based residential program offering healing and support.
- Foster Care and Adoption Services: Training and licensing foster and adoptive families throughout Abilene, San Angelo, Brownwood/Goldthwaite, and Weatherford.
- Free Counseling Services (FAYS Program): In-home or school-based counseling for families in crisis.
- Family Center Counseling: Therapy for children currently in foster care and their families.
Their philosophy is simple: children are first. Every decision made centers on what is best for that child.
New Horizons Needs Foster Families - Right Now
I recently spoke with Leah Neely, Case Manager with New Horizons, and she shared something that hit me hard:
There are children in West Texas right now who are waiting, hoping, for a family to say yes.
Here’s what New Horizons provides to foster families:
- All training and licensing (including trauma-informed care)
- Support from dedicated case managers
- Reimbursement to help with the cost of caring for a foster child
- A team that walks alongside you every step of the way
How You Can Help Today
If you’ve ever felt called to foster, volunteer, or support a child in need, this is your moment.
- Call New Horizons at 325-437-1852
- Learn more at newhorizonsinc.com
Every child deserves a safe place to call home.
Maybe that home is yours.
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