Embrace is an AMAZING organization that not only supports families within the child welfare system but also the CPS caseworkers. I have had the opportunity to work with Embrace as a caseworker and as a community partner. Embrace has provided the families on my caseload with furniture, basic need items and so much more. Several young adults on my caseload, were able to benefit from Embrace's graduation parties and first apartment kits. Embrace has been a blessing to our community and the many families that they serve. Embrace has also supported and made CPS workers feel like they matter through their appreciation luncheons or other events for workers. This has made CPS workers feel valued and seen and just an overall good feeling. Embrace truly understands that it takes a village to support the children in the foster care system, so they make sure that the family and workers are taken care of. Embrace thank you for all you do!-Elizabeth Cruz
I absolutely love working with Embrace! There is a wide range of tasks to do, all manageable and engaging. This team is amazing at explaining every activity, and it's truly inspiring to learn about the incredible impact they have on the kids. You genuinely feel like you're making a real difference in kids' lives!
I've been working with this non-profit for years, and truly believe in their story and vision of helping at-risk children and their caregivers across North Texas. The staff is absolutely wonderful, and I am so excited to continue volunteering / helping at their events.
My daughter and I have volunteered with Embrace for a couple of years now and they are an incredible organization! Embrace is a very well organized nonprofit and you can tell they care deeply for the lives they impact. We are so grateful for Embrace Texas and their impact on our community!
Nikki Socha
Embrace Texas is a wonderful organization that sees the needs in foster care in Texas and works to meet them. From the children entering care to the families who care for them temporarily or become forever families to the case workers who work hard to find solutions to impossible situations, Embrace Texas works to meet the needs of each of these groups in tangible ways. We have served with them for several years in a variety of ways. My daughter and I have worked with our service organization, RTwelve, to clean the house Embrace Texas provided for children without a placement. We have organized clothes for an event to help families in foster care with clothing needs. We have also served for several years at their Santa's Little Helpers event in December to provide a Parent's Night Out and an evening of fun for all the children in the home of a foster/adoptive family. It's a fabulous organization who goes above and beyond to provide love, care, and support for all these children and those who love and support them!
Embrace is a well run organization with the needs of families and children in the foster system as highest priority. Embrace has found a unique role in supporting families which improves the foster system and this way of serving allows more of us in the community to get involved more than we normally would. My employer has a non-profit ministry wing component and we have been proud to support Embrace monetarily and with volunteer services. After partnering with Embrace for 2 years now, I can confidently say they use their time and resources well for the betterment of all they encounter.
I was blessed to be able to participate in the Embrace Foster/Adoptive Mom's retreat this year. It was evident how much time, thought, and intentionality went into loving all of the participants (and our families by extension) so well while seeking to encourage, support and connect us. Thanks Embrace!
Embrace is an amazing organization that has blessed our family more than we could even imagine, they have given my foster/adoptive kids so much love, fun, connections that we would have never been able to provide if it wasn’t for them.
They really know how to make Foster/Kinships/Adoption families feel special, heard, and loved. They host so many events and talks that help caregivers give their bests and rejuvenate so that they can be the best for their family.
Embrace does such an amazing job loving on foster/adopt families and kids. I have really enjoyed their Moms Retreat, among other services, which have been absolutely invaluable during our journey. During their Respite/family events, I know that my children's unique needs will be taken care of and treated with dignity.
I am a foster parent that has been blessed by the amazing team at Embrace. I had the privilege of attending a retreat last year for foster and adoptive moms and it was such a breath of fresh air (literally and figuratively ;)). They made the weekend so meaningful by including intentional workshops and activities and making me feel special and appreciated. As a busy foster parent I don't always get the opportunity to relax and fill my cup, I am so thankful for the retreat. My family has also appreciated the chance to attend a Texas Rangers baseball game, thanks to Embrace. Their work has made such an impact on my family and helps me to feel encouraged to continue on my path in foster care.
Empower has been instrumental in helping children in Child Protective Services foster care, who are free for adoption, find forever families. Embrace worked in collaboration with CPS staff and other local churches, by having Child to Family Connection events for families approved to adopt and those interested in fostering or adopting. Information meetings were held for those seeking information on the foster and adoption process. Many children were "matched" with their forever families. In addition to helping recruit foster homes in Region 03, Embrace has provided shelter for children waiting for placement. They have provided meals for children in foster care and supported Child Protective Services caseworkers. Embrace has also been instrumental in assisting other faith-based foster and adoption ministries to get started, in other parts of the state of Texas. Embrace has a heart for children who are waiting for permanency or who are in foster care. I have not seen a more dedicated group of people in all of my years working in the field of child protection. I wish the rating had 10 stars instead of five.
I have served with Embrace Texas for several years. I love what their program does, how it walks along side the families as well as the children in foster care. They provide so many amazing opportunities for support and encouragement, as well as fun things to do for families! One of my favorite events is the Graduation Party they throw for kids aging out of the system. It is an opportunity to celebrate them as well provide resources for "what's next". Not all these children walk the same path and everyone doesn't graduate and go to college, this event is for all of them and we hope that they leave knowing they are all special and important.
Embrace TX is an amazing place that seeks to help foster, adoptive, and kinship families live into healthy, stable relationships. They offer fun opportunities for families as well as intentional supports for mom and dads. So thankful they are in our community!
I have been volunteering with Embrace Texas helping to host their Grad Party for several years. Every single person as Embrace pours so much of their hearts into making sure the event is fun and educational! The young adults who attend leave the event knowing they have a support system and with knowledge of the many resources available to them that want to help them to thrive in their next steps. It’s one of my favorite events of the year!
I love working with Embrace Texas as a volunteer. They give so many opportunities to really make a difference in the lives of foster/adoptive kids and families.
I love what Embrace Texas stands for and does for the foster family community. Their mission is clear and the positive outcomes impacting families is heartfelt. It takes special kind of people to be committed in a space that pulls at your heart strings, but the team is interested in how they can do more. I am touched by their work.
I have had the opportunity to give my time to work on various projects organizing, sorting, and just on the spot assistance giving what I can.
I look forward to my continued relationship with this team and helping families and children through the process.
Embrace Texas is a gem of an organization for families and youth in the foster system. They understand that ins and outs of the system and the struggles that kids and families face. They directly address those needs through support groups, moms weekends away, resource fairs to help share information and of course temporary housing for youth in transition. Having seen first hand the Santa's lil Helper event, and the amazing coordination and passion that goes into it, I would highly recommend this worthy non-profit to receive your financial contributions and time.
Embrace has been a Godsend to our family. We are a large family with seven kids, two of whom came to us through foster care and adoption. Thanks to Embrace’s good work in our community we have had opportunities to spend time together as a family at the family camp-out, time to be renewed as individual parents (moms’ and dads’ retreats), time to reconnect as husband and wife while Embrace offers a great experience to our kids (Santa’s Little Helper), and the list goes on (mother-daughter tea, support group, an active online community, help with Christmas gifts and new clothes/shoes…) Thank you, wonderful Embrace staff, volunteers, and supporters. What you do MATTERS.
This organization has been so supportive throughout our adoption process, connecting us with people, the foster closet, and other moms that just "get" the season of life that we are in!
I know that many more year will come with our family being encouraged and hosted by Embrace!
Thank y'all for all y'all do for us crazy moms!
My husband and I love serving and over the years have served in a variety of capacities for several different nonprofits. Our volunteer experiences with Embrace have all been INCREDIBLE. We cannot emphasize enough how amazing this non-profit is. As former foster and adoptive parents, we would have loved to have had access to all of the wonderful respite and training programs that Embrace provides. As volunteers, we appreciate how organized, intentional, and devoted Embrace is. The staff is always refining every detail to ensure a positive impact on the children and families whom they encounter. If you are looking for a great place to volunteer, look no further! We cannot recommend them enough. Embrace ROCKS! - Mark and Kimberly Harris
Embrace Texas is a great option for anyone looking to volunteer! There is a spot for everyone to use there gifts wether that is serving with kids or helping prep for an event! I love to volunteer at their Santa's Little Helper event every December, and many of their other volunteer opportunities throughout the year!
Embrace Texas are life savers! They've loved and served my family so well! They have great events and opportunities with others that are going through similar challenges.
I have served with Embrace for the past couple of years and have loved every opportunity. When you volunteer, you are able to work alongside a team of incredible people while making. a real, tangible difference in the lives of vulnerable children.
I was invited to an Embrace Texas informational meeting about what they do. Denise the Executive Director was very knowledgeable and helped me to understand their ministry. I enjoyed connecting with her staff, hearing from their panel and the casa and cps workers that were there sharing available children in the area. It was an amazing meeting and gave me total understanding of how these children in foster care need forever homes. I have to say that they are the agency that I would want to work with.
As both a foster parent and adoptive parent, our family and children have greatly benefitted from the services provided by Embrace Texas! They are a local, hands-on organization that provides for the needs of this community in so many effectual ways. From hosting holiday and birthday parties to family camps, back to school shopping events and first time apartment kits for foster teens aging out of the system. For caregivers like me, they host support group meetings and an annual weekend getaway. In this tumultous climate we live in, Embrace is there to offer support and to helps us find the services we need for both ourselves and the children we serve.
Across the US, foster care systems are struggling to meet the needs of children in their conservatorship. This large community has been severly impacted by the effects of Covid. All the partners involved : CPS, the courts, advocates, service providers, community partners, etc. are struggling to maintain and improve the safety and well-being of this vulnerable community. And this is where Embrace Texas steps in! They are there to help parents like me in every aspect of serving these children. This community and our family has come to depend on their unfailing support!
Embrace has been nothing short of amazing by being a resource not only to all foster and adoptive families with support and advocacy, but also a known name to be trusted by CPS and other government and quasi-governmental agencies.
The most vulnerable Texas children are better off because Embrace exists.
It has been an honor to partner with Embrace Texas as they strive to meet the needs of children in foster care, foster/adoptive parents, and those in kinship situations. I am constantly inspired by their ability to identify needs and then go above and beyond to meet those needs. It's impressive to see how Denise and her staff continue to put a spotlight on the varied needs of those they serve, educating and building relationships with the community, and allowing many lives to be changed and dreams to come true! Investing in the lives of these young people and their families is making life-long differences and has the potential to totally change the direction of lives! I can't wait to see what they do next...I believe they are only getting started!
We just had the best board retreat meeting today with consultant David Spivey - lots of planning, sharing, and fun exercises, all for the benefit of the foster and adoptive community and to the glory of God.
Embrace has been incredibly nimble over the last few years in how they have responded to both new challenges and opportunities. Many kids in our community have been helped through the work that Embrace does.
Embrace Texas is such an amazing company that truly cares about their community. They not only connect children and families through foster/adoption (to the highest level btw), they make sure and host events, etc to keep all their families and children connected. That is extremely imperative to keep their retention at a high level. It has been an eye-opening and amazing experience to partner with Embrace. I would ONLY recommend Embrace Texas when I hear about a family or kid in need of these specific services.
Embrace Texas is all the things a nonprofit should be in the community. Denise and her team at Embrace continue to find creative and cool ways to serve foster and adoptive families. I was able to witness the time, attention, and compassion that they provide to parents and guardians considering the adoption process. I will always be thankful to Denise for the support she showed my dear friend and the many others serving as foster and adoptive families.
Embrace Texas was started by Bruce and Denise Kendrick. Their Mission is to help give foster children a secure and loving home and help with their needs. Bruce and Denise walk the walk. They have adopted 3 foster kids in addition to their own 3 kids. Embrace has a long reach in Collin County and they make a huge difference for at risk kids at a meaningful part of their lives.
Embrace is an amazing organization that provides support and resources to foster/adopt families. They care deeply about their volunteers and the families they serve. I am so thankful to have Embrace in our community.
Two young people heeded God's call and vision to form a ministry designed to serve children in foster, adoptive, and kinship care, a ministry that they started in their home, just the two of them. Embrace Texas now serves these children, as well as foster and adoptive parents, in Collin County with a small staff who are as passionately dedicated to this ministry as the two originators with multiple avenues of help-related activities and platforms. How do I know this? I watched this ministry grow; I witnessed God's hand in opening doors; as a CASA, I have sought and received help for my CASA kids and families; and now I am privileged to serve on their Board of Directors. Embrace Texas, as a nonprofit entity, works on a bare-bones budget with their staff serving in multiple positions and working crazy, long hours to serve the kids and families who truly need and benefit from them.
As a foster mom I love this nonprofit so much! They have monthly support groups for moms and an annual retreat which is so awesome! They are amazing and so helpful to us as a foster and adoptive family.
Embrace is such a huge support for my family. They understand the needs of our family built through foster care and adoption.
Embrace is an amazing organization that has been a blessing to hundreds of children and families. Their support of foster and adoptive parents is like no other. I am so thankful that I found them several years ago and I recommend to all my friends who have fostered/adopted (or are interested in doing so).
Embrace is a fantastic organization I was introduced to by other foster mom friends from my new church. The resources and encouragement that are provided are such a blessing, and being able to have other moms in similar life stages or that can help walk through the stages together are such a Godsend.
In June 2017, I attended an info meeting and paper match adoption event hosted by Embrace in Frisco, which opened my heart to adding a second child to my small family of 3. In June 2018, after licensing and being approved to adopt from foster care, I attended my second paper match event through Embrace where my husband and I felt drawn to a 16 year old looking for her forever family. That match didn’t work out for us, but the experience further opened our hearts to teens. Through Embrace, I joined a support group for foster and adoptive moms that helped me navigate the rest of my journey and keep searching. Without Embrace and the connections I made, I doubt we would have met our 14 year old daughter in July 2019, who has become the best big sister to our 10 year old bio son & completed our family in ways we could not have imagined. Thank you, Embrace!
We came along side Embrace in 2008 and have been amazed and blessed to see this organization blossom. Embrace does an exceptional job of connecting with children and the adoptive and foster families to meet both their practical and support needs. Beyond this, Embrace helps churches establish their own foster and adoptive care ministries, reclaiming the care of social orphans in our communities. The Embrace team is viewed by the State of Texas as such a great partner, that regional CPS offices have actually contacted Embrace for assistance with specific needs.
What a tremendous advocate for children!
Embrace provides wonderful wrap-around care for families at all stages of fostering and adoption. Furthermore, they have various recruitment, informational and social opportunities for the foster and adoptive community. I am grateful for the work they are doing to provide a loving, stable home for EVERY child.
I continue to be very grateful for the many ways that Embrace advocates for foster/at-risk children, how they support foster/adoptive families and how they bring churches together to serve the foster community!
Embrace inspired my husband and I to begin our journey as foster parents and supported us throughout our journey and the adoption of our girls. They do so much in the community!
Embrace is such an amazing organization! They work with families that are fostering/adopting in ways that really matter and make a difference. One of my favorite things about Embrace is how they devote time, energy and money into kids aging out of foster care. As they transition into life as an adult, they help lessen the burden. The staff is always happy to help and genuinely love what they do.
Embrace has been a wonderful resource in our foster/adopt journey. They do so much good for the community and I love volunteering with them whenever I can.
Embrace Texas is full of people who are doing so much more than "going through the motions" of serving others. They are living examples and in the trenches with those they serve. They use their personal experiences to educate and empower others to serve foster children in a multitude of ways. Their programs are wide ranging - recruiting new foster families, supporting current foster parents, equipping/empowering 18 yr old foster kids who age out of the system, services for parents at risk of losing custody, training groups across communities to provide various services...and acting as key players in legislation related to all these aspects. I've worked for/with non profit organizations for 20+ years and I'm not sure I have ever witnessed the level of commitment or breadth of outreach you see with Embrace Texas.
Embrace has been such an invaluable gift to our family! The resources they have pointed us to and provided have helped us on our families foster/adoption journey. The community we’ve gained through participating with them has also been wonderful and life-giving!
Embrace Texas as been an invaluable resource in helping to get our churches foster/adoption ministry running. They offer great ways to get your church body involved in helping foster families and kids in our area.
Embrace Texas is an incredible organization that has supported my family and engaged churches for years ensuring we are supported and have access to resources to care for vulnerable children and families.
Volunteering with and through Embrace Texas has truly been a joy and blessing. I love that they care about educating people, not just finding "hands" to do the work. They have a real heart for these kids and families, witnessed in the way they live their own lives.
I have been a part of several different programs (creating weighted blankets, volunteering at the HS Graduation party, etc) that directly and indirectly support foster children and families, and have thoroughly enjoyed each event. These precious kids don't deserve the hand they've been dealt, yet they are still hopeful. Part of that hope comes from having positive, supportive, encouraging adults in their life that they engage with and I'm grateful to have the opportunity to be one of those through Embrace!