November 30th, 2011

30 Days of Gratitude – YOU

During the month of November the Hope Cottage blog will feature 30 Days of Gratitude – 30 days, 30 entries for what we are thankful.  Share with us what you are most thankful for!

Day 30

All this month, the Hope Cottage blog has featured items for which we at Hope Cottage are grateful.  Hope Cottage could not have existed for almost one hundred years without YOU.  You have provided support for our babies.  You have provided shelter and sustenance for pregnant women who didn’t know where to go, whom to turn to or what to do.  You have provided counseling for ALL the families united by adoption, both birth and adoptive families.  You have made sure that what is best for the most vulnerable members of our society – our children -has remained at the forefront of the Hope Cottage mission.  Thank you!

Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.

If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.

If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.

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November 29th, 2011

30 Days of Gratitude – Picture Tuesday

During the month of November the Hope Cottage blog will feature 30 Days of Gratitude – 30 days, 30 entries for what we are thankful.  Share with us what you are most thankful for!

Day 29

Tuesday is Picture Day on the Hope Cottage blog.  Enjoy these photos from our archives.

Hope Baby Twins – 1933


Hope Baby Jimmy

Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.

If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.

If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.

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November 28th, 2011

30 Days of Gratitude – Milk for the Babies

During the month of November the Hope Cottage blog will feature 30 Days of Gratitude – 30 days, 30 entries for what we are thankful.  Share with us what you are most thankful for!

Day 28

As mentioned in our blog post of November 26th, the early days at Hope Cottage were lean.  In July 1921, things seemed to turn the corner.  We received a $500 check and that gave our little staff the incentive they needed to keep going.  That $500 covered milk for the babies and ice to keep it fresh.  Tennessee Dairy Farms then stepped up and donated a three months supply of milk.  We are grateful for that $500 check and Tennessee Dairy Farms for  milk for Hope Babies!

Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.

If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.

If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.

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November 28th, 2011

30 Days of Gratitude – Early Community Support

During the month of November the Hope Cottage blog will feature 30 Days of Gratitude – 30 days, 30 entries for what we are thankful.  Share with us what you are most thankful for!

Day 26

In the early days, Hope Cottage existed from day to day – never knowing if it would be able to pay the bills.  It cost $29 a month to care for each baby and County Commissioners thought that was too much money.  They wanted to close Hope Cottage.   City leaders gathered forces, led by Z.E. Marvin, Alex Sanger and Mrs. Rice Jackson and came to the aid of Hope Cottage.  We are grateful for those early city leaders who made sure Hope Cottage continued to exist.

Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.

If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.

If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.

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November 27th, 2011

30 Days of Gratitude – An Unamed Social Worker

During the month of November the Hope Cottage blog will feature 30 Days of Gratitude – 30 days, 30 entries for what we are thankful.  Share with us what you are most thankful for!

Day 27

A young woman, wanting the best for her children, but not knowing where to turn, tried to drop off her children at a local fire station.  She was turned away because the children were too old.  She then called and reported herself to Child Protective Services.  The social worker at CPS determined, after meeting with the young mother, that the children had neither been abused or neglected.  The young mother just knew that she could no longer care for the children and she wanted them to have a stable home.     We are grateful to that unnamed social worker, who rather than put the children into the foster care system, suggested the young mother call Hope Cottage.  She called and Hope Cottage was able to find a loving, adoptive home for two beautiful children.

Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.

If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.

If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.

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November 25th, 2011

30 Days of Gratitude – Community Partners Who Keep Children Safe

During the month of November the Hope Cottage blog will feature 30 Days of Gratitude – 30 days, 30 entries for what we are thankful.  Share with us what you are most thankful for!

Day 25

Children are so very special.  Today we are grateful for the social service agencies who make sure the children in our community are safe, warm and loved – agencies like Community Partners of Dallas, CASA, Alley’s House, City House, Rainbow Days and CPS.

Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.

If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.

If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.

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November 24th, 2011

30 Days of Gratitude – The Press

During the month of November the Hope Cottage blog will feature 30 Days of Gratitude – 30 days, 30 entries for what we are thankful.  Share with us what you are most thankful for!

Day 24

This article ran in one of the area newspapers on November 24, 1921.  We are grateful for the hundreds and hundreds of news articles and stories published over the years about Hope Cottage.  Thank you to the press for keeping our mission to build strong families in front of the public.  Enjoy the article

HOPE COTTAGE BABY ADOPTED THANKSGIVING

REFUSES TO MAKE ANY STATEMENT FOR PUBLICATION

LIKES HIS BOTTLE

GROWN MAN OF 2 YEARS FINDS REAL HOME THROUGH NEWSPAPERS

(Now that’s a lot of headlines!)

Over at Hope Cottage there is real cause for thanksgiving today, but the principal actor in the affair refuses to make any statement for publication about it other than some inarticulate but delighted gurgles over a milk bottle.  Nevertheless, if he only knew it, this Thanksgiving Day is not only the first, but the most momentous ever enjoyed by Omas on earth, for today he is to be adopted into a home, a real home where he will grow teeth designed to attack Thanksgiving turkeys of the future.

Omas was born on Dec. 28 of this year.  A 17 year old mother who couldn’t keep him put him in the care of Hope Cottage, where other lusty babies are growing fat pending their adoption into the homes of foster parents.  At Hope Cottage it is the custom of the nurses to take turns in naming the babies that fall into their charge, and Omas received his name from the sweetheart who held the affections of the particular nurse who fell to him as a godmother.

Omas is sturdy, in perfect health, and possessed of large brown eyes that won him the home he is to enter when a young Dallas couple went on a tour of inspection of the Hope Cottage babies to decide the momentous question of which one they wanted to rear as their own child.

Another Hope Cottage baby has passed his probation period in the home and found parents.  He is Billy, the senior member, a grown man of some two years’ standing, who found his home through the article which appeared in the Dallas News about the Hope Cottage work.

Hope Cottage is one of the ten charities supported entirely by funds received from teh Welfare Council of Dallas which starts othe 1921 campaign for $170,000 on Dec. 1.  Workers in the campaign were busy Thanksgiving morning in the Welfare Council headquarters preparing lists of those who are to solicit during the appeal.  Women who wish to volunteer for the work in the residential sections should communicate with Welfare council headquarters.

Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.

If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.

If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.

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November 23rd, 2011

30 Days of Gratitude –

During the month of November the Hope Cottage blog will feature 30 Days of Gratitude – 30 days, 30 entries for what we are thankful.  Share with us what you are most thankful for!

Day 23

We are grateful to the Texas Office of the Attorney General for providing Parenting and Paternity Awareness ( P.A.P.A.) training to educators and social workers throughout Texas.  P.A.P.A. provides education about birth father’s rights and Hope Cottage was honored to host one of the trainings this year.

Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.

If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.

If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.

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November 22nd, 2011

30 Days of Gratitude – Picture Tuesday

During the month of November the Hope Cottage blog will feature 30 Days of Gratitude – 30 days, 30 entries for what we are thankful.  Share with us what you are most thankful for!

Day 22

Tuesday is Picture Day on the Hope Cottage blog.  Enjoy this picture from Thanksgiving at Hope Cottage during the 1930′s.

Thanksgiving at Hope Cottage during the 1930's

Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.

If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.

If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.

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November 21st, 2011

30 Days of Gratitude – Reunion Parties

During the month of November the Hope Cottage blog will feature 30 Days of Gratitude – 30 days, 30 entries for what we are thankful.  Share with us what you are most thankful for!

Day 21

For more than 40 years, Hope Cottage has held a Holiday Reunion party for our families.  The event, held the first Sunday in December at Hope Cottage, gives families a chance to visit each other.  We love these parties because it gives us a chance to see how our Hope Babies have grown.  We are grateful to the generous benefactor who provides the party – continuing a legacy began by her mother.

Hope Cottage is the oldest nonprofit, non sectarian adoption agency in Dallas. Since 1918 Hope Cottage has been building and nurturing strong families through counseling, education and adoption services.

If you have questions about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 214.526.8721.

If you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy and would like to talk to someone about adoption, please call Hope Cottage at 1.800.944.4464 or 214.404.4546.

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