MCH Receives 2021 GuideStar Platinum Seal
Methodist Children’s Home (MCH) earned the Platinum Seal of Transparency, the highest level of recognition offered by GuideStar, the world’s largest source of information on nonprofit organizations.
MCH Partners With One Heart Project
MCH President Trey Oakley highlights the remarkable ways God worked in and through the Methodist Children’s Home (MCH) community during last week’s historic winter weather.
Winter Weather Response from MCH
MCH President Trey Oakley highlights the remarkable ways God worked in and through the Methodist Children’s Home (MCH) community during last week’s historic winter weather.
MCH Named TBRI® Ambassador Organization
Methodist Children’s Home has been named as an inaugural TBRI® Ambassador Organization by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University.
TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. According to a news release from the Institute of Child Development, TBRI® Ambassador Organizations “are identified as key partners who have long-term relationships with the Purvis Institute and are furthering its mission at a systemic level using Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI).”
Bond of Brothers: MCH Family Outreach and residential programs collaborate to bring stability to young men’s lives.
In the 13 MCH Family Outreach communities across Texas and New Mexico, case managers work with families in a variety of ways, including parent education and other family solutions combining individual and family services, case management and advocacy. At the Boys Ranch in Waco, Texas are seven young men – Laderius and three sets of brothers: Bryce and Londen, Daniel and Yassir, and Sterling and Ryland – all whose connections to MCH uniquely originated through these Family Outreach programs.
Innovation, Creativity Help MCH Flourish through Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted plans, processes and procedures at Methodist Children’s Home in 2020. While not the path on which any organization would have chosen to learn and grow, MCH has a long history of adapting in crisis and finding ways to continue meeting the needs of others.
Nikkie: Finding Value
Nikkie speaks about Methodist Children’s Home (MCH) with gratitude and a warm smile. Reflecting on her life before she came to MCH four years ago, Nikkie is transparent about how she was making poor choices and feeling very unloved. At first she was angry that her grandparents – her primary caregivers – placed her at MCH. But now she says she can see it was out of love.
Hawa: Building Bridges
Building bridges did not always come naturally for Hawa. After struggling to form secure attachments with caregivers, Hawa made the personal decision at age 13 to come to Methodist Children’s Home and learn how to build connections and reach her potential. In 2012, she moved to the Waco campus where her journey began.
MCH Students Return to School
Youth at Methodist Children’s Home spent the first six weeks of the fall semester engaged in a remote learning environment from their homes on the Waco campus and MCH Boys Ranch before resuming in-person classes at the MCH charter school in October. To prepare for the first day of on-campus school, staff at the charter school implemented COVID-19 safety measures to minimize contact between students and teachers.
Celebrating Our Student Athletes
Congratulations to our Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs on a great fall season!