Helping Hand Home Blog

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...

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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

For 1,445 days Mark and Anna Polanco opened their home and their hearts to 17 different children with varying histories, behaviors, and needs. All of these children had two things in common. Whether short or long term, they all needed safe and loving adults to care...

Helping Hand Home for Children would like to extend a huge thank you to 13 area Jersey Mike’s Subs throughout the Austin area and to all those who participated in the 7th Annual March “Month of Giving” fundraising campaign to raise awareness and support for children...

Helping Hand Home for Children is honored to once again be one of five beneficiaries for the World Golf Championships-Dell Match Play Tournament. The 2017 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play officially kicks off tomorrow, March 22–26 at Austin Country Club. Support...

Helping Hand Home for Children is joining forces with 13 area Jersey Mike’s Subs throughout the Austin area for the 7th Annual March “Month of Giving” fundraising campaign to raise awareness and support for children who have suffered severe abuse and neglect. The...