So, What Exactly Does Friends for Life Do?
That’s a question we get a lot. Do we rescue fur babies? No. Although we love animals, and have an adorable pooch running around our office every day named Oreo, …
Guardianship Manager Retires from the State of Texas and Accepts Position at Friends for Life.
Clifford A. Walker has joined Friends for Life as Guardianship Director after having served as Regional Operations Manager of the state guardianship program for over eleven years. “We prayed for …
Professional Legal Guardianship
Appointed by courts to serve as legal guardian for elderly and adults with disabilities – usually victims of abuse or neglect and unable to care for themselves. We have professional …
Happy Endings
We have a 27 year old client who was abandoned by his momma when he was very young. He has cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities and juvenile diabetes. Recently we moved …
Thank you for Here
There was no way to know if she understood what we were saying when we first met her. She could not talk – could not tell us what was wrong …
21 Years Old
This month Friends for Life is 21 years old! We started helping people in September of 1989. This year Friends for Life is helping about 3,815 people. 93 frail elderly …
I don't know what to do.
I went to see an elderly widow who was sitting on concrete steps outside her house. She was crying and she had pulled out almost all of her hair. There …
They Won't Know
We told one of our elderly guardianship clients that we never show anyone their pictures to protect them and to insure confidentiality. She gave us this picture and said, “Show …
In a Shed behind his House
He was a vet. His family had locked him in a shed behind his house for years. He might have died in that shed, but one of his family members …
Saving for a Rainy Day
In our first year at Friends for Life, we were asked to be the legal guardian for a man who had been found unconscious on a railroad track. He was living in a shed about the size of my office (which was pretty tiny).