Services
Meeting the needs
that can’t wait.
When a CPS caseworker identifies a need for a Brown County child, we work to turn that request into real, practical help.
Sometimes help is
something you can hold.
These programs put something directly into a child’s hands. Some answer an emergency. Some mark an occasion. All of them go to a specific Brown County child.
Emergency Needs
We spend the largest share here because the most urgent needs are the ones nobody sees coming. A bed. A car seat. A prescription. A safety item a caseworker needs today, not next month. When the call comes, this is what lets us answer it.
Family Support
Help that steadies the household around a child. Meal boxes when the pantry is empty. Gas cards so a family can make it to visits, appointments, and court dates. The everyday, non-emergency support that keeps a family going.
Kinship Care Support
Support for Brown County children living with relatives or trusted caregivers, providing clothing, school supplies, hygiene items, and everyday necessities they need.
Back to School
Every September, we provide hygiene boxes to local campuses so a child who needs one never has to ask twice. We also help kinship families cover the cost of getting a child ready for the school year.
Birthdays
Every child in our care receives a gift card for their birthday. It’s a small thing that says something big: somebody remembered, and this day is still yours.
Christmas
Every child in our care receives a Christmas gift. We couldn’t do it alone — community partners across Brown County help us make sure nobody is missed.
Special Requests
The needs that don’t fit anywhere else, and often matter most. A child who needs certified copies of their birth certificate before they can be registered for services. A one-off cost standing between a child and something they’re entitled to. When a request doesn’t fit a category, we look at it anyway.
Inside the CPS Office
Two rooms this community made better.
Some of the hardest hours of a child’s life are spent waiting inside a CPS office.
We can’t change why they’re there. We can change what the room feels like. The Board helps decorate and stock the Comfort Room at the local CPS office—the space where children wait, do schoolwork, and pass the time while adults sort out what happens next. A room that feels considered instead of institutional is a small thing that lands on a child at exactly the wrong moment in their life.
Down the hall is the second room. That one’s called the Rainbow Room.
The Rainbow Room
A room full of help, ready the moment a child needs it.
Inside the local CPS office is a room stocked with brand-new essentials for children in crisis. It’s called the Rainbow Room.
When a caseworker needs diapers, formula, clothing, shoes, hygiene supplies, blankets, toys, books, or another essential for a child, they can turn to the Rainbow Room for help. That means a need can be met without waiting for a donation drive to start or someone to go searching for the right item.
The Rainbow Room is funded as its own program, with its own designated funds. A gift given to the Rainbow Room stays with the Rainbow Room.
This community stocks the shelves. And because they’re always being used, they always need filling. Keeping the Rainbow Room stocked is one of the simplest ways to turn your generosity into something a Brown County child can use right away.
Help Fill the Shelves
Drop off new items at the Rainbow Room, inside the local CPS office. All items must be new and unused, and we distribute them to local Brown County children. We cannot accept used items.
Drop-off address and hours
2400 Crockett Dr, Suite 100, Brownwood
Left window: M-F: 10AM-3PM
ONLINE DIRECT WISH LISTS
(SHIPS TO BOARD)
Amazon Hygiene Wish List
Amazon Teen Wish List
Walmart Wish List
100% of items received are cataloged and provided directly to local children.
Not every dollar goes into a child’s hands.
Some of it goes into the community and the system around them — the awareness that prevents harm, the training that sharpens the people responding to it, and the celebrations that mark the good days. That work matters too.
Child Abuse Prevention
Every April, we join communities across Texas for Child Abuse Prevention Month with a county-wide awareness campaign and our signature fundraiser, Karaoke4Kids: Battle of the Businesses.
Adoption Day
When a Brown County adoption is finalized, we celebrate it properly — a party and gifts for a day that’s been a long time coming.
See the event →
Conferences & Training
We fund training for our own board members and for the CPS staff and social workers serving local children. Better-equipped people make better outcomes for every child they touch.
School Assistance
School counselors see needs before almost anyone else. When one reaches out about a child — beyond the hygiene boxes we already send to campuses — we respond.
Public Relations
We show up at the family-friendly, community-driven events that make Brownwood what it is. Being visible is part of the work: it’s how people learn these children exist and how they can help.
Heart Gallery
We support the Heart Gallery of Northwest Texas, which pairs volunteer photographers with Texas youth waiting for adoptive families so their communities can see them, not just their case numbers.
Give something a child needs today.
Needs change throughout the year. If you’d like to donate items or organize a community drive, here’s what Brown County children need most right now.
Updated: August 2026
Everyday essentials, for the Rainbow Room
These stock the shelves a caseworker pulls from when a child needs something the same day.
Diapers and pull-ups, all sizes
Diaper wipes and cream
New clothing, adult sizes for teens
New shoes, adult sizes for teens
Hygiene supplies and home cleaning supplies
Car seats and booster seats
Bigger needs, for a specific child
These reach one child, usually at the caseworker’s request.
Twin and crib/toddler conversion beds and bedding
School supplies, backpacks, and travel-size hygiene box items (seasonal, Jul to Aug)
Christmas gifts (seasonal, Nov to Dec)
Birthday gift cards, $25 (year-round)
We accept new, unused items only, sized for infants through teens. We can’t accept used items. Shopping our wish list is the simplest way to give, and it comes straight to us. For anything you’d like to bring yourself, including beds, send us a message through our contact form, and we’ll arrange it.
From a caseworker’s request to a child who needs it.
Most of the help we provide starts with someone already working directly with the child.
01
A caseworker identifies a need.
A CPS caseworker working with a Brown County child identifies something specific they need: a bed, clothing, food, a car seat, or another essential.
02
The request comes to us.
The caseworker brings the need to the Board so we can determine how we can help.
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We match it to the right program.
An urgent request draws on Emergency Needs. A school-year request draws on Back to School. A request that fits nowhere becomes a Special Request. It’s why we can say yes to a bed on Tuesday and a birth certificate on Thursday.
04
We turn the request into help.
Once approved, available funds are used to provide the actual item or service the child needs rather than giving cash directly.
05
Help reaches the child.
Working through the caseworker, the requested item or service gets where it needs to go.
It’s a simple process built around one goal: getting practical help to a Brown County child who needs it.
Turn a need into something
a child can hold.
Give an item. Fill a shelf. Fund a request. However you choose to help, your support becomes something a Brown County child actually needs.