To prevent a continued cycle of mistreatment, our state must better do better by young parents who have aged out of the foster care system.
Texas Demography Holds Key to Our Future
Millions of Texans will write their own individual stories for years to come. But the story of our state as a whole will depend on breaking the link between income and demographics. If we expand opportunities and raise the income levels for Hispanics and blacks, we can ensure the state has a strong economy and future.
Momentum Building Against Tasers in School
Improving data collection by DFPS to ensure positive outcomes for children in the CPS system
Women's Health Care
Testimony to the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee
Interim charge: Women's Healthcare - Build on previous legislative achievements in women's healthcare by examining women's access to preventative health care, pregnancy services, and postpartum care, and exploring ways to expand access and improve quality, particularly in rural and underserved areas of the state.
State Leaders Must Take Action on Tasers in Schools
How Access to Gardens and Farms Helps Texas Students
Texas Department of Insurance Navigator Hearing
PBIS: Discover Possibilities (Video)
Preventing and Addressing Sex Trafficking of Youth in Foster Care
Testimony to the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means
As you examine the impact of sex trafficking of those involved currently in foster care, Texans Care for Children urges the Committee to include in its consideration the role that improved data collection and information-sharing between child serving agencies, and training has on the identification and protection of our most vulnerable children, those removed from their home due to abuse and neglect and placed in foster care.