Antelope Valley Child, Youth & Family Services

Antelope Valley Child, Youth & Family Services (AVCYFS) is a thirty year old non-profit Christian organization birthed out of the state of California. Tucker, a child advocate and social worker for over thirty years. AVCYFS, formerly known as Teens World Group Home, Inc., initially provided child-placing services, exclusively, for Residential Group Home placement of at-risk male youth between the

ages of 13-18 years. Over the years Eddie has dedicated his life to serving children, youth, and families in the areas of residential group home care; foster care; family reunification; child and family counseling; mentoring; child care; and family development. Today, in collaboration with his wife, Brenda Barnes-Tucker, a social services administrator in the areas of child abuse/prevention; foster care; family reunification; family development; early childhood development; child care; and program development; he continues to serve children and families in the state of Texas. AVCYFS endeavors to assist the Texas Department of Family & Protective Services in the effort to achieve the goals of permanency planning for children between the ages of 0-17 years who are in the care of Texas Department of Family Protective Services and those children in the care of their biological families, as well. AVCYFS contracts with the State of Texas for both foster and adoption services.