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Guest:
Mr Cody Reeves, Board Member of The Burkes Center
Karen Rogers with The Burkes Center

Karen has 30 years experience at the Burke Center and will be able to address any questions towards the “happenings” out at the facility.


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Topic:
Assisting Texas children who are removed from their home environments due to abuse, neglect, or problems with the law.

About The Burke Center:
The Burke Center for Youth is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization formed in 1973 to care for Texas children who are removed from their homes by TDFPS due to abuse and neglect, or who are placed into residential care by the justice system. They are partially funded by TDFPS but rely heavily on funds raised through donations from individuals, businesses and grants.

Burke Center Mission: Help children in crisis, build self-respect, self-reliance and self-esteem and to help them build more hopeful futures. The ultimate goal is to stop the cycle of abuse and neglect of children.

The Burke Center has served thousands of children through two programs:

PATHFINDERS RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT PROGRAM: Serves at-risk boys ages 11 to 17 in a setting where they can recover from abuse and neglect in a supportive environment. They have:

Individual, group and family therapy
Substance Abuse and Anger Management groups
University of Texas Charter School on campus
Their own established Boy Scout Troop
Music program and Horsemanship program
Community led Chapel services

Every young man entering the program must work incredibly hard. It is not an easy program. Some will be in the program for a year and some of them for two years.

FOSTER CARE PROGRAM: Serves children throughout Texas with basic and therapeutic needs. They place boys and girls, infants to age 17, in supportive loving homes. They manage those homes closely by going to see the children at least every two weeks. The agency staff is available 24 hours a day for foster parent support and to respond to calls in the middle of the night from TDFPS to place children just removed from their home for abuse or neglect. They recruit, license, train and manage foster homes from offices in Brownsville, Brownwood, Corpus Christi, Laredo and the main office in Driftwood (near Austin). In the past month, they have had three children adopted by foster parents.

The Burke Center for Youth
P.O. Box 40
Driftwood, TX 78619
512/858-4258

About the Burke Rally event:
Benefitting the Burke Center for Youth

Rally begins at the Burke Center for Youth

Registration from 8 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Or Pre-register by August 1st and save money.

Last Bike in by 2 p.m.

Rally ends at Camp Ben McCulloch - Directions
http://www.campben.com/

Primitive Camping Available at Camp Ben McCullough
It’s a 100 Mile Fun Run (Motorcycles and Vintage Vehicles)
Fun Run Registration 8 - 10 a.m. at the Burke Center
Fun Run ends with Main Event at Camp Ben McCulloch, Noon - 9 p.m.

Links:
http://www.burkerally.com/burkecenter.html
 http://www.theburkecenter.org/
The story about Tommy is on the main page, particular interest!