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FUMC to host speaker Sunday

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Albany News

By Kathy Thomson

Megan Harbin, the director of family outreach for Methodist Children’s Home in Abilene, will be giving a presentation this Sunday, June 30 during the 11:00 a.m. worship service at First United Methodist Church in Albany.

“There is a need for foster care for children in this area,” Harbin said. “Through MCH we help license foster families with the state so they can work with CPS, and we also have a private foster care option in which CPS is not involved.”

The private option is for families that may be facing an unusual challenge and need temporary foster care, according to Harbin.

“In those cases we can sometimes place their child temporarily in a licensed foster family without going through CPS,” she said.

Harbin will also discuss some of the other programs that MCH offers including support for grandparents and other care givers that are raising children, and working with existing families to help stabilize them.

Founded in 1890, MCH is a nationally accredited, nonprofit childcare ministry which serves children and youth through residential programs on a Waco campus and Boys Ranch, and through foster care, transition services, and a variety of services in communities throughout Texas and New Mexico.