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DePelchin's Children Center campus on Memorial Drive in Houston

Historic gift for foster care nonprofit to help launch Harris County partnership

By Shawn Arrajj

DePelchin Children’s Center—a Houston-based children's nonprofit that has been offering foster care, adoption and other family services since 1892—announced Sept. 11 it had received a $5.9 million gift that will go toward decreasing wait times for counseling programs and a new partnership with the Harris County Child Protective Services investigation team, among other efforts.

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