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Seasonal Events & Resources

  • Safe Haven Trunk or Treat

    🎃 Trunk or Treat with Safe Haven 🎃
    Join us for a night of candy, games, and fall fun on Friday, October 24th, from 6–8 PM at The Grove Church (next door to Safe Haven), 8200 Washington Ave, Houston, TX 77007. Come in your best costume and decorate your trunk for a chance to win prizes for Best Costume and Best Car Decorations. This safe, family-friendly event is full of treats, laughter, and community fun—you won’t want to miss it! Decorating your trunk is encouraged but not required.

  • East Houston Peace Pop-Up & Education Summit

    Join us for the East Houston Peace Pop-Up & Education Summit—a vibrant community celebration bringing together families, students, educators, and partners for a day of learning, connection, and fun! This free event will be held on Saturday, October 25, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at 9410 Mesa, Building B, Houston, TX 77028

    Attendees will enjoy access to valuable education, health, safety, and community empowerment resources, as well as opportunities to engage with local vendors and organizations.

  • Keller Williams Southwest - Trunk or Treat

    Come Join Us for a Family-Friendly Night of Fun and Marketing! ✨

    Where: Keller Williams SW - 1650 🎃 Keller Williams Southwest – Trunk or Treat 🎃
    Come join us for a family-friendly night of fun and community on Saturday, October 25, 2025 at Keller Williams SW, 1650 Highway 6, Sugar Land, TX 77478. Set up begins at 4:00 PM, and the event will be open to the public from 6:00–8:00 PM. Bring your family, dress up, and enjoy a night full of candy, games, and festive fun!

  • Above & Beyond Fellowship - Fall Festival

    Above & Beyond Fellowship – Fall Festival

    Join us for a day of fun, food, and fellowship at Above & Beyond Fellowship, 20498 Rhodes Road, Spring, TX 77388! Enjoy games, music, delicious treats, and activities for the whole family. Don’t miss this chance to connect with the community and make lasting memories—we can’t wait to see you there!

  • Know Your Rights

    Join us on Monday, October 27, 2025, at 6:00 PM for an informative session with Attorney Bri Holcombe on Divorce and Child Support. This event will be held via Zoom (link sent upon registration). For questions, contact Susan Soto, Staff Attorney, at 217-275-0124 or susan.soto@hvlp.org.

    Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about your rights!

  • Fallbrook Fun Fest

    Bring the whole family to Fallbrook Fun Fest on Friday, October 31, 2025, from 5:30–7:30 PM at Fallbrook Church, 12512 Walters Rd, Houston, TX 77014. This safe, family-friendly event is perfect for children from infants through 5th grade, with fun, games, and community activities. Gates open at 5:30 PM—don’t miss the fun!

  • Cypress-Katy Fallbrook Fun Fest

    Join us for the ultimate fall festival on Friday, October 31, 2025, from 5:30–7:30 PM at 10215 Greenhouse Road, Cypress, TX 77433! Enjoy live music, delicious food, and fun activities for the whole family. Don’t miss out on a night full of fall vibes and community fun!

  • Stand With Me Summit

    Join us in taking a stand for children and discovering meaningful ways to make a difference in the world of child welfare. The Stand With Me Summit is more than an event—it’s a movement to inspire change, build community, and ignite compassion. When you stand for children, you don’t just change their lives—you change your own.
    Join us on Saturday, November 8, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM at First Metropolitan Church, 8870 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N, Houston, TX 77040. Together, we can create a brighter future for every child.

  • Love Fellowship Fall Festival

    Love Fellowship Church Fall Festival & Turkey Giveaway
    Join us for a day of fun, fellowship, and community at Love Fellowship Church’s Fall Festival & Turkey Giveaway on Saturday, November 22, 2025! This special event brings together families, neighbors, and local partners to celebrate the season while giving back to those in need. Guests will enjoy festive activities, family-friendly entertainment, and the opportunity to receive a free turkey for their Thanksgiving meal (while supplies last). We’re also welcoming local businesses, ministries, and community organizations to host vendor or information tables—an excellent way to connect, share resources, and make a positive impact in our community.

  • Christmas Beach Party

    Get ready to make waves of holiday cheer at our 7th Annual Give Joy Christmas Beach Party! Hosted by the Give Joy Resource Center, this special celebration is dedicated to foster, adoptive, and biological families. Join us on Monday, December 22, 2025, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM for an unforgettable evening filled with Santa visits, dance performances, delicious food, sweet treats, and thoughtful gifts. Come dressed in your most festive beach-inspired Christmas colors and get ready to celebrate the season with sun, sand, and smiles! Please register in advance so we can best plan for your family’s experience.

Ongoing Resources

  • Agape Development

    Agape Development is a faith-based ministry serving individuals and families in Houston’s 77021 zip code, also known as the ‘OST/South Union’ community. Their mission is to empower children, teens, and adults through programs that promote personal growth, stability, and spiritual development. Agape offers a variety of services including summer camps, after-school programs, life skills enrichment for young adults, and housing guidance for those seeking temporary or permanent housing solutions. Additional initiatives include employment support, discipleship programs, community gardens, neighborhood celebrations, and clean-up events. By addressing the spiritual, educational, and practical needs of the community, Agape Development is working to create lasting change—one life, one family, and one neighborhood at a time.

  • BEAR

    The BEAR Necessities program, operated by BEAR…Be A Resource, includes two BEAR Rooms located in the Greater Houston area, both designed to provide comfort and a sense of normalcy for children involved with CPS or facing at-risk circumstances. These rooms are stocked year-round with new clothing, shoes, diapers, car seats, air mattresses, and other essential items to meet the urgent needs of vulnerable children. Serving approximately 3,000 children each month—and over 30,000 last year alone—BEAR helps ensure that children do not go without the basics, recognizing that sometimes the difference between attending school or staying home can be as simple as having shoes or school supplies, and the difference between a healthy infant and one in distress can come down to access to formula or clean diapers.

  • Clothed By Faith

    Every person who walks through the doors receives a full week’s worth of clothing—including shoes, new socks, and underwear—personally selected by caring volunteers to bring comfort, confidence, and dignity. These services are available to anyone facing hardship, from children in foster care and parents escaping domestic violence to veterans starting over and families rebuilding after disasters. Since 2013, the organization has clothed more than 150,000 people across Greater Houston, offering hope and a fresh start when it’s needed most.

  • Embrace Foster Care Ministry

    As a ministry of Bay Area Christian Church, this program is dedicated to supporting foster families by allowing them to focus on bonding with and caring for their foster children. While families handle the important work of building relationships and providing stability, the ministry steps in to take care of the practical needs, easing the burden and ensuring families have the support they need to thrive.

  • Foster Village

    Foster Village provides essential support and services to children entering foster care and the families who care for them. Through community donations, the organization assembles and distributes Welcome Packs filled with basic necessities such as clothing, car seats, cribs, and backpacks to help ease the transition during the first days after placement.

  • Grow

    The Grandfamilies Outcome Workgroup (GrOW) is a national network of stakeholders that works across systems of care in support of kinship families. GrOW intentionally integrates the lived experiences of kinship caregivers in the evaluation methods, tools and resources it develops and shares. GrOW’s mission statement is to emphasize the importance of the application of evaluation tools to identify needs and support best practices in partnership with kinship families.

  • Moses Project

    The Moses Closet is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Tomball, TX, committed to supporting children and families in the foster, adoptive, and kinship community by providing essential items and compassionate care. Through generous donations, the organization supplies beds, cribs, car seats, furniture, and welcome baskets filled with toys, clothing, hygiene items, and Bibles to help children feel safe and valued as they transition into new homes. The Moses Closet also fosters meaningful connections with families through prayer, fellowship nights, and shared resources, while engaging the broader community to raise awareness and inspire involvement. For updates, stories, and ways to support their mission,

  • Riverside Project

    The Riverside Project provides vital support and resources for kinship families, helping them navigate the unique challenges of caregiving. Committed to empowering these families, the program offers access to information, essential resources, and meaningful community connections.

    Additionally, the Riverside Project facilitates babysitter training through a certification process that covers key requirements for caring for children in foster care (excluding fingerprinting). Training topics include medication administration, transportation safety, trauma-informed care, and CPR, ensuring caregivers are well-prepared and confident in their roles.

Health & Mental Health Resources

  • The Adolescent Center

    The Adolescent Center and Mental Health Services (TAC) offers a Virtual Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) for adolescents ages 13–18. This two-week virtual program provides structured group and individual therapy sessions, supporting youth without requiring overnight stays, school absences, or major disruptions to daily routines. The program focuses on emotional and behavioral development while equipping clients and caregivers with coping strategies and psychoeducation. Participants engage in 8 group therapy sessions, 4 individual sessions, 2 family therapy sessions, and 2 parent coaching sessions, covering topics such as anxiety management, conflict resolution, decision-making, positive self-talk, and art and journaling.

  • AOC Outreach Services

    AOC (Adapt, Overcome, Conquer) provides community-based, family-centered mental and behavioral health services for children ages 3–17. Their team of licensed LPCs, LMSWs, and QMHPs offers therapy, skills training, and crisis intervention through in-home, virtual, and in-person care. AOC also provides substance abuse counseling for youth, as well as adult and marital counseling. Services are bilingual, culturally responsive, and designed for youth involved with CPS, including wraparound referrals for food, housing, medical needs, and workforce readiness support. With small caseloads, AOC ensures personalized care and timely support for every family.

  • Arrow - Behavioral Health Services

    Arrow’s Community-Based Behavioral Health Services provide students with the support they need to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Our team offers academic assistance, behavioral support, skills training, and transition planning—all at no out-of-pocket cost to families. Through proven tools and approaches such as Aggression Replacement Training and easy referral access, we help students build confidence, develop healthy coping skills, and achieve lasting success.

  • C.O.P.E. Behavioral Health Program

    C.O.P.E. (Conquering the Obstacles of Painful Experiences) delivers trauma-informed behavioral support for children ages 3 and older. Services include therapy, case management, and medication management, offered in the home or virtually, and covered by Medicaid. Beyond traditional therapy, C.O.P.E. organizes structured community activities to help youth practice social skills and healthy coping strategies. By collaborating closely with caregivers, caseworkers, and schools, C.O.P.E. fosters improved behavior, stronger coping skills, and healthier social connections for each child, helping them grow and thrive in a supportive, consistent environment.

  • Divine Counseling Services

    Divine Counseling Service LLC provides comprehensive mental health and substance use support for children, adolescents, and adults. Their services include outpatient and intensive outpatient programs (IOP/SOP/DOT/SAP), home- and community-based adult mental health services (HCBS-AMH), parenting and anger management programs, and DFPS CANS assessments. Divine Counseling offers both virtual and in-person sessions to accommodate clients’ needs and accepts Medicaid as well as commercial insurance plans. With a focus on accessible, client-centered care, they support individuals and families in achieving improved emotional well-being and healthy life skills.

  • The Inner Mind: Counseling & Wellness

    Based in Katy, Texas, The Inner Mind: Counseling & Wellness specializes in trauma-informed care for youth involved in Residential Treatment Centers, foster care, CPAs, and the CPS system. The practice offers on-site and in-house mental health services, including trauma-focused counseling, behavior and emotional regulation support, coping skills training, case management, and referrals for ongoing care. Serving individuals ages 5 and up, The Inner Mind accepts most private insurance and Medicaid plans, providing both in-person sessions at their Katy office and statewide telehealth services to ensure flexible access to care.

  • PrimeKids Therapy

    PrimeKids Therapy provides personalized pediatric occupational, physical, and speech therapy for children ages 0–21 in home, daycare, and school settings. Their occupational therapists support children in developing life skills, self-care routines, self-feeding, fine motor skills, sensory integration, and social skills tailored to each child’s unique needs. Physical therapists focus on building strength, improving mobility and balance, and helping children reach important developmental milestones in a safe and engaging way. By delivering therapy in a child’s natural environment, PrimeKids helps children with developmental, physical, sensory, and feeding delays achieve their full potential while fostering confidence, independence, and enjoyment in everyday activities.

  • The Village Life Center

    The Village Life Center is a bilingual, full-service mental health agency offering outpatient and community-based services to children, adolescents, and adults across Texas. Their programs support individuals, parents, caregivers, foster families, school staff, healthcare providers, and members of the judicial system. Services are available to youth under 18 and adults 18 and older, with a commitment to inclusivity regardless of race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, location, or income. The Village Life Center accepts all Texas Medicaid plans and provides compassionate, accessible care to all eligible clients.

  • You Matter Behavioral Health

    You Matter Behavioral Health is dedicated to empowering individuals and families to achieve emotional and mental well-being through compassionate, evidence-based care. Their services include individual and family counseling, medication management, trauma-informed therapy, psychosocial rehabilitation, skills training, case management, crisis intervention, grief and loss counseling, and psychoeducation. Serving children and young adults ages 3–21 across the greater Houston area, all services are provided by qualified professionals committed to supporting every voice, every story, and every heart.