A faith-based organization is an organization whose values are based on faith and beliefs, which has a mission based on social values of the particular faith, and which most often draws its activists (leaders, staff, volunteers) from a particular faith group. The faith the organization relates to does not have to be academically classified as religion . The term "faith-based organization" is more inclusive than the term " religious organization " as it also refers to non-congregation faith beliefs.
6-560: The Refuge Ranch was a Christian faith-based facility on 50 rural acres in Bastrop County, Texas , for young women who had been subjected to human trafficking , which operated under contract with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) until it was ordered to shut down on March 11, 2022, in the wake of multiple reports of sexual abuse and exploitation, medical neglect and physical abuse. Purportedly
12-503: The abuse until March 10, as allegedly it was originally thought that one "bad apple" had been responsible. Faith-based organization Faith-based organizations are grass-root organizations active locally but also on an international scale. Their funding comes from member donations, but they are also eligible for state or international grants. Currently, this terminology is widely used in governmental, inter-governmental, and non-governmental settings. World Bank prepared
18-695: The cost of the medical care. We're partnering with a federally qualified health care clinic." Each survivor at the Refuge would receive a customized care plan "provided by a staff that's committed to Christ". After field trips were cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19 travel restrictions , the Ranch began a series of Zoom hangouts with various celebrities, including Ariana Berlin Valorie Kondos Field , Ebola survivor Preston Gorman, Olympian Simidele Adeagbo , computational biologist Laura Boykin and
24-593: The largest long-term, live-in rehabilitation facility for child survivors of sex trafficking in the United States, it included a charter school operating under an arrangement with the University of Texas-University Charter School . At the time of its creation, founder Brooke Crowder explained, "We're not bearing the cost of our on-site charter school—the University of Texas is doing that. We're not bearing
30-469: The members of the Dixie Chicks . According to 2022 press reports, between seven and nine girls aged 11–17 were subjected to physical abuse, sexual abuse and exploitation, and medical neglect, by various past employees of the ranch, many of whom were relatives, or related by marriage or cohabitation. This included the coerced taking of nude photographs of some of the girls and sale of the pictures, with
36-531: The proceeds used to buy drugs and alcohol, some of which were then supposedly then provided to the girls. It's now believed that the operation's residential care director, Courtney Trujillo, knew about the sexual abuse and appears to have done nothing for almost two months. The abuse was reported to DFPS in January 2022, and the relevant agency received eight phone calls about the Ranch, but the courts and those who monitor children in foster care were not notified about
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