Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundation Presents Checks to 2025 Grant Recipients

Melissa Crager  Public Relations & Corporate Responsibility Manager  mcrager@brookshirebros.com O: 936.634.8155 ext. 4344  C: 936.676.7555  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundation Presents Checks to 2025 Grant Recipients $125,00 was distributed to 53 nonprofit organization LUFKIN, TEXAS (January 29, 2025)…The Brookshire Brothers Charitable Foundation celebrated its grant recipients at a check presentation ceremony on Wednesday.   […]

4Kids4Families Launches Prom Closet Campaign

East Texas nonprofit launches ‘Prom Closet’ campaign to help local foster youth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqNE5ixWZU TYLER, Texas (KETK) — East Texas nonprofit launched a campaign in January to ensure local foster youth have access to special event attire. The 4Kids4Families “Prom Closet” campaign will provide Region 4 foster youth with attire so they can shine at their […]

4Kids4Families Receives Grant

4Kids4Families Partners Across East Texas for Child Abuse Prevention Month Region 4 — In honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, 4Kids4Families is partnering with communities across East Texas to raise awareness and support local efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect. Throughout April, 4Kids4Families is collaborating with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs), Child Advocacy […]

4Kids4Families Partners with Annie’s Closet

4Kids4Families Partners with Annie’s Closet to Support Foster and Kinship Families in Cherokee County. Rusk, Texas — 4Kids4Families is proud to announce a new partnership with Annie’s Closet, an organization based in Rusk, Texas, dedicated to providing foster and kinship families in Cherokee County with essential items to meet the daily needs of children in […]

USPS Worker uses Crafting Talent to comfort children

Local Postal Worker Shares Crafting Talent to Comfort Foster Children TYLER, Texas— Sometimes the most unexpected acts of kindness can make the greatest impact. For one local postal worker, Tammy Thigpen, delivering mail became a gateway to delivering hope and comfort to children and families in need. What started as a simple delivery route blossomed […]

Partnership Brings Beds to Families

Previous slide Next slide 4Kids4Families Partners with Beds for Kids to Provide Beds for unlicensed Kinship and Reunified Families in Bowie County. Texarkana, TX – 4Kids4Families is proud to announce a new partnership with Beds for Kids, a bed-building ministry overseen by Artie Erwin on behalf of Walnut Church of Christ in Texarkana, Bowie County. […]

East Texas Nonprofit Launches Holiday Initiative

Previous slide Next slide East Texas nonprofit 4Kids4Families is making a significant impact by supporting the growing number of children in need of foster care.Operating under the Texas Family Code section 264.161, the organization serves as a Single Source Continuum Contractor (SSCC) for Region 4, which covers 23 counties – known as the Piney Woods […]

Reportable Incidents Include:

  • Death of a child
  • Child is in a life-threatening situation
  • A significant change in a child’s medical condition
  • Psychiatric hospitalization
  • A child who is missing from care and placed on the Amber Alert system returns to care
  • Natural disasters where children are displaced
  • Suicide attempts
  • Injuries requiring medical treatment including psychiatric hospitalization
  • Runaway incidents
  • A caregiver/staff member or child contracts a communicable disease
  • Commission of a Crime, including those committed by youth or crimes occur at a home or facility in which youth are placed
  • Allegations of abuse, neglect or abusive treatment
  • A child’s abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
  • Allegation and/or confirmed child-on-child physical and/or sexual abuse.