Category: CH Updates

Family Resource Center: 2023 Christmas Gift Giving Event

'Tis the season for giving

What a day! Thanks to incredible donors and volunteers, 70+ local families from Christ’s Haven’s Family Resource Center were able to select Christmas gifts for 200+ kids earlier this week.🎁

The purpose of our FRC is to stand in the gap and help keep families together. It was such a great day of generosity and Christmas joy at Christ’s Haven. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen.🎄✨ #ChristsHavenChristmas #StandInTheGap #NormalcyDignityHope

Christ’s Haven’s Family Resource Center supports local families on Food Pantry Friday

Family Resource Center Food Pantry Friday
Family Resource Center Food Pantry Friday

We had a fun Family Resource Center Food Pantry Friday where 57 local families picked up Thanksgiving food boxes full of turkeys to pies and just about everything in between!

Christ’s Haven’s Family Resource Center continues to stand in the gap providing resources to help local families stay together.

Thank you to the wonderful organizations whose generosity helped make this happen:

  • Southlake Carroll Hockey Association
  • National Charity League Keller
  • NCL Inc., North Tarrant County Chapter
  • NCL Trophy Club
  • Payless Power Texas
  • Westlake Academy IB Charter School

Latest Updates: November 2023

Check out the latest updates from Christ’s Haven in our E-Messenger Newsletter.

In This Issue:

  • Fall Festival Photos & Recap
  • New Video Provides Programmatic Overview
  • Novel Gets Brought to Life
  • Christmas at Christ’s Haven
  • What is Relational Permanency & Why it Matters

CLICK HERE to read the November 2023 E-Messenger newsletter.

2023 Fall Festival & Open House

Christ's Haven's Fall Festival & Open House has record-setting attendance

We loved seeing so many creative trunks, adorable kiddos in costume, and families at last weekend’s Fall Festival & Open House. 

With 75+ trunks set up, there was A LOT of candy handed out to the almost 2,000 people at the event. It was our biggest Fall Festival yet.

Thank you to all of the sponsors, volunteers, vendors, and staff who helped make this fun day such a huge success. We hope you enjoyed visiting our neighborhood of homes and can’t wait to do it again next year!

To see all the pictures from this event, click here to visit Christ’s Haven’s Facebook page.

Christ’s Haven: Normalcy, Dignity, Hope

Learn more about Christ's Haven

Christ’s Haven For Children is a nonprofit organization centered around the core values of normalcy, dignity, and hope. We provide a trauma-informed, family model of care for displaced children, teens, and young adults.

As a voluntary placement organization, we are an option outside of traditional foster care, often when a caregiver has exhausted all efforts to care for a child. Whether a child is with us for six months or sixteen years, we utilize that time loving them as our own and instilling normalcy, dignity, and hope into their lives.

North Texas Giving Day 2023

 

Thank you to everyone who donated today and supported Christ’s Haven showing that you believe in Normalcy, Dignity, & Hope for all children. We exceeded our goal and raised an incredible $46,765.23!

 

Thank you for your support and generosity helping provide Christ’s Haven’s trauma-informed, family model of care for children, teens, and young adults now and for years to come. 

Latest Updates: September 2023

Check out the latest updates from Christ’s Haven in our E-Messenger Newsletter.

In This Issue:

  • Incredible Week of Summer Camp
  • How is Christ’s Haven Unique?
  • Welcome new Relief Houseparents
  • Fall Festival & Open House
  • The Whole Child: Providing Academic Support
  • Now Hiring
  • Meet the Dogs of Christ’s Haven

CLICK HERE to read the September 2023 E-Messenger newsletter.

Back-to-School Tips for Parents & Caregivers of Youth Who Have Experienced Trauma

It’s back to school time for many families in the DFW area.

Did you know that 1 in 7 children in the United States have experienced child abuse or neglect just in the past year?

Christ’s Haven’s Director of Therapy, Jason Brown, has some helpful tips for caregivers of youth who have experienced trauma as they prepare for the new school year.

For most educators in our area, the school year has started and it’s time to establish classroom routines.

Christ’s Haven’s Director of Therapy, Jason Brown, has practical tips for educators and caregivers on ways they can support students who have experienced trauma.

Christ’s Haven Youth Enjoy Pine Cove Summer Camps

Summer Camp.

Is there anything else like it? Several youth living at Christ’s Haven had the opportunity to attend Pine Cove camp this summer. It was an incredible week of fun activities, spiritual renewal, new friendships, and lifelong memories. 

There are so many important ways youth can grow emotionally and spiritually by going away to camp for the week. Providing this experience is another example of what we mean when we talk about our core value of instilling normalcy in the lives of displaced youth. 

We are grateful to Pine Cove Camps and all of the volunteers at Restoration Church who helped make this happen. From decorated trunks full of everything you could need at camp to helping with transportation to raising funds for registration, your support gave youth so many lifelong memories. 

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