South Texas Alliance For Orphans

Community engagement: alliance prevention network - as an organization, in 2024, we piloted our new alliance prevention network (apn) to help prevent children from entering the foster care system. With this program we served 265 families. Through apn 260 beds for children, 54 car seats, 156 meals at thanksgiving were provided.

Community engagement - we trauma trained 272 people through which 385 children participated parents night out events with trauma informed caregivers. Our babysitting collaborative helped verify 35 babysitters. We were able to support 806 caseworkers with monthly meals, supplies, and encouragement through church adoption of caseworker units. At events this past year we served 688 kids at our kinmart event, 1,034 kids, 327 families at our jinglemart event. Our centered dads retreat served 36 foster/adoptive/kinship dads and 22 foster/adoptive couples at our renew marriage retreat.