AUSTIN, Texas — Every week on KVUE, we feature a different child in the Texas foster care system, in hopes of getting them adopted into a forever family.
The Central Texas nonprofit Partnerships for Children helps to advocate and provide resources for children involved with the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS).
Right now, Partnerships for Children's Rainbow Room is stocking up on school supplies ahead of the start of the new school year. The nonprofit's top needs are:
- Clothing and shoe gift cards
- Graphing calculators
- Monetary donations for specific requested items
Learn more about how you can help get children prepared for the new year.
KVUE launched the Forever Families segment with Partnerships for Children (PFC) in June 2020 to highlight children in the Heart Gallery of Central Texas who need secure and permanent families. Every day, there are nearly 1,000 children waiting to get adopted in Central Texas, according to PFC.
Editor's note: The children who are in the Heart Gallery program and featured in KVUE's Forever Families segments are children who have had every effort made on their behalf to connect them with family or others in their community to provide options for permanent, adoptive homes. Through no fault of their own, that hasn’t happened yet, and so in partnership with the Department of Family and Protective Services, we collaborate to bring awareness to KVUE viewers about these children in the hopes of finding them permanency before they age out.