{"id":88602,"date":"2025-12-15T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88602\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:34:07","slug":"north-texas-nonprofit-helps-grandparents-who-step-up-as-parents-11-days-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88602\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas nonprofit helps grandparents who step up as parents: 11 Days of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"

The season of giving is in full swing, and CBS Texas is giving 11 $1,000 donations as a part of the 11 Days of Giving<\/a> with our partners at Tom Thumb Albertsons. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Care 365, a nonprofit in Waxahachie, was selected because it supports grandparents who must once again take on the role of parent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The organization is run by Kenyatta Henderson, who has been in family services for more than three decades. \u00a0<\/p>\n

She used to help parents enroll in services to make ends meet and raise their kids. But then she noticed a shift in who was asking for help. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“In the ’90s, I saw a shift where we no longer had parents enrolling, we had grandparents enrolling,” said Henderson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That inspired her to found Care 365. They can help provide emergency financial assistance to these dedicated grandparents for things like mortgage payments and utility bills. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“Parents were being incarcerated, parents were on drugs, parents were just leaving their children,” she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But they also do things to help make the holidays special. \u00a0<\/p>\n

“This time of year, they sign up for toys for their grandchildren. So we’re they’re vessel to provide them a toy so that their grandchildren can have something to open for Christmas,” said Henderson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And that makes a big difference for grandparents like Maria Barrera.<\/p>\n

“It’s a huge blessing. It’s hard times right now for everybody. It’s just going to make a big difference, all in all,” said Barrera.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The money donated to the organization from CBS Texas will go towards keeping grandparents in their homes, taking care of their grandkids. \u00a0<\/p>\n

And helping grandmas like Barrera make Christmas special for her grandkids. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The season of giving is in full swing, and CBS Texas is giving 11 $1,000 donations as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30322,27,29,28,8159],"class_list":["post-88602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-11-days-of-giving","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-waxahachie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}