Carrying Hope

Throughout May, which is National Foster Care Month, is spotlighting our three essential programs, including Hair + Hope. 💕

In 2025, our Hair + Hope program served 100 foster youth across the state of Texas. Our Hair + Hope program has provided 200 hairstyles since launching in 2024.

Carrying Hope believes that all youth deserve to have their basic needs met and is proud to offer our Hair + Hope program, which pairs incredible local stylists who regularly work with textured hair with youth in foster care who are desperately in need of their services. Stylists are fully and generously paid for their time and talent. Would you like to help sponsor a style for a youth in our program? Learn more at https://carryinghope.org/hair-hope-program/

May is National Foster Care Month! Throughout the month, Carrying Hope will be spotlighting our programs, including Hope Packs! 🎒

Each week, we distribute our Hope Packs—backpacks filled with new, age-appropriate comfort items and essentials—directly to CPS caseworkers, foster care agencies, child advocacy specialists, shelters, RTCs, and group homes throughout DFPS Regions across Texas. Our goal is to offer items that babies, children, and teens entering foster care would need and could find comfort in during those first 48 hours in care while allowing caregivers to focus solely on the new child in their home instead of rushing out to the store.

Since 2016, our Hope Packs and programs have impacted the lives of nearly 47,000 youth and families in the Texas foster care system, transforming a once heartbreaking situation into a transition that begins with hope and healing.

In honor of National Foster Care Month, please consider making a Hope Pack for a child who needs one. Learn more at www.carryinghope.org/make-a-hope-pack/