AGAPE RANCH
EVERY CHILD WILL EXPERIENCE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
AND UNDERSTAND HIS OR HER VALUE
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Providing care and guidance to foster children and families in South Texas
Homes at The Ranch
Services Through Programs & Events
Foster & Adoptive Families
Join us for our Legacy Gala: Welcome Home!
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As a 501(c)3 charitable organization dedicated to providing high quality foster care in South Texas by supporting foster and adoptive families, we have been working diligently in the areas of prevention, foster care, adoption, and aging-out to provide support and mentorship for vulnerable children in our community. Regretfully, child abuse and neglect have continued to rise and the work of Agape Ranch is needed now more than ever.
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More than 60% of the children in our county are being placed outside of our county due to the lack of foster homes in our community. This results in many children being separated from their siblings and the only community that they know.
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More than 90% of young adults aging-out of the foster care system will become homeless, incarcerated, in prostitution, sex trafficked, or dead within three years.
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Agape Ranch will establish a safe environment of 22 homes where foster children can receive the support they need in order to mature in all aspects of their lives. Upon completion, our self sustaining community will care for up to 128 foster children and young adults at a time.
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The Thrive program will provide housing and mentorship for young adults during their college or trade school career.
WHAT IS THE RANCH?
We Are Building a Neighborhood for Foster Children to Call Home
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In South Texas, there aren’t enough homes for children to take refuge while their lives are in flux, so we’re mitigating that problem by building a literal neighborhood complete with homes, playgrounds, rec areas, and onsite respite care providers to love and support foster children. This will:
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Keep sibling groups together.
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Provide quick response respite care.
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Provide housing for kids who have aged out of foster care.
Children deserve to have someone tuck them into bed each night, to help them with their homework, to teach them how to ride a bike, and to watch them grow up. However, there are children in the foster care system that haven’t been able to have some of these things.
Through compassionate care and connection to the community, Agape Ranch gives these children places to call home and families that love them so that they can know that they are loved and valued.
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Find out more about the three types of homes in the neighborhood at The Ranch.
PROGRAMS & EVENTS
Other Ways to Get Involved
Foster Parent Night Out is a free program that gives current foster parents a short break from the day-to-day challenges that arise when raising foster children. This event welcomes parents to register their children. During the event, children are able to engage in a variety of activities under the supervision of certified respite care providers and additional childcare volunteers.
Foster families face unique challenges when hosting children in the foster program that result in burnout for too many families. We train Respite Care Providers to enter into their world to give them much needed breaks, go on vacations, have date nights, and to give the children another adult that loves them.
Agape Acts is a supportive care network for foster families that helps bring support in times of need (i.e., providing meals, doing yard work, minor home repairs or housework). It exists to empower church communities and individuals to tenderly care for the foster families that are within their midst.
