Helping Hand Home Blog
October 2017- KXAN Features Foster Mom, Kristin Finan
If you've ever considered fostering a child, check out this interview with Carrying Hope's co-founder and president Kristin Finan as she shares how fostering has positively impacted her family in more ways than she could have ever imagined. "It will change your life,"...
October 2017-“Portrait of a Boss Lady” Features Board President
Congratulations to our 2017-2018 Helping Hand Home Board President Ann Bauer for her staring role in Kelly Wynne Ferguson's "Portrait of a Boss Lady" series! Kelly is highlighting one amazing, total BOSS per month showing how they #daretowynne through their work,...
September 2017- Dell Technologies Match Play Check Presentation
Tournament officials announced today that the 2017 World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play Championship generated more than $1.1 million for five Austin-based organizations-- Austin Parks Foundation, Boys & Girls Clubs of the Austin Area, The First...
September 2017- Dell Technologies Match Play Charity Check Presentation
Helping Hand Home for Children was honored to have been chosen as one of five beneficiaries for the 2017 World Golf Championships- Dell Technologies Match Play this past March. Sixty-four top-ranked professional golfers came from around the world to play in Dell’s...
June- 2017 COA Accreditation
Helping Hand Home for Children has achieved national accreditation through the New York-based Council on Accreditation (COA). Helping Hand Home for Children provides the following services: residential treatment, foster care, adoption and family support. It took...
May 2017- Heartbreak and Hope Part Four
If you had told me a year ago this would be my life, there is no way I would have believed it. Enemies turned family. Strangers turned sons. Promises turned reality. Life can be so crazy. And so beautiful. Through it all, I think I’ve learned something. Maybe, for...
May 2017- Heartbreak and Hope Part Three
"I, too, worked to adjust to my new role as a mom of four, which included sleeping in two-hour increments, researching minivans at 4 a.m. and searching constantly for my keys, which were invariably still in the front door where I had left them the night before. It was...
May 2017- Heartbreak and Hope Part Two
"She arrived on a Friday night wearing a polka-dot party dress that was two sizes too big, her hair just washed in a bathroom sink by the CPS caseworker who had been watching her for six hours as calls went out to see if any foster homes could take her. The caseworker...
May 2017- Heartbreak & Hope Part One
"Over Sonic milkshakes and swimming pool visits, we’d plan out fishing trips and talk about our hopes for the future. Because he had moved around so much, he was behind in school and took multiple pills a day for ailments he couldn’t name. Sometimes, he said, other...