Founder’s Blog - Monarch Family Services

Founder's Blog

Kinship Care

Monarch Family Services strives to compassionately and professionally deliver value-added services in an effort to improve the lives of children and strengthen families. Because we recognize every child and family travels different and unique paths in their journey toward wholeness and empowerment, our agency is family-focused and provides integrated comprehensive services across the family services continuum.

Monarch Family Services Kinship Programs

Monarch Family Services compassionately and professionally delivers services to improve the lives of children and to strengthen families. Our agency is family-focused because we recognize every child and family has a unique path toward healing. MFS provides integrated and comprehensive services across family service spectrum.

Foster Care And Adoption In The State of Texas

"Kin First" Child Placement Agency

Kinship Care refers to the care of children by relatives or close family friends (often referred to as fictive kin). Experts largely agree that relatives are the preferred resource for children who must be removed from their birth parents because it maintains family connections. The Department of Family Services’ kinship program provide the child a connection to birth families…

Why Would A Grandmother Become the Foster Parent of Her Grandchild?

Monarch Family Services has been licensing kinship (relative) families for foster to reunification,
foster to adopt, foster to permanency managing conservatorship, and straight adopt for the past eight
years. We have been able to provide resources and permanency for hundreds of families. Despite all
the great work I question why a grandmother would want to be a foster or adoptive parent to their grandchild.