This year also ushered in the inaugural class of
child welfare supervisors working to attain a
new professional certifications through training
piloted in two Community-Based Care regions.
This year we worked to support and build the
network of Family Resource Centers across
Texas, promoting quality practices in unique
programs serving families across Texas. We are
thrilled to partner with these organizations in
2022 and beyond.
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The year brought creative approaches to
capacity building, led by the work of TACFS
members. Many started as ideas that have
and will continue to bloom into effective
child and family welfare policy.
Foster and Kinship Care: Programming and
funding to support foster parent recruitment
and to provide therapeutic support for kids
in foster and kinship homes.
Supporting the Continuum: Supporting
new programs in prevention, mental health,
and post-adoption and post-permanency to
keep families safe and together at home.
Texas Permanency Outcomes Project:
Furthering permanency statewide for
children and youth beginning with a
clearinghouse of information for resources, programs, and projects.
More than 1,500 people from Texas
and beyond attended the 2022 Texas Child Care
Administrators Conference that workforce professionals and experts together to
grow, learn, and advance our mission.
Through the Office of the Texas Governor’s
Child Sex Trafficking Team, we’ve provided
training for 1,262 child welfare professionals
who work with youth survivors of commercial
sexual exploitation. That’s 4,465.5 person-hours
of training!
TBRI Fridays prioritized ongoing traumainformed
training for 409 person-hours of
training for people in our network. We extended
our trauma informed work to judicial and
other partners.
We down
granted $6 million to child and family-centered
programs that TACFS members
are building across Texas to meet the needs
of their communities, such as the expansion
of Heart Galleries, Kinship Treatment Foster
Care, and the provision of training and other
concrete resources for service providers.
Additionally, we’ve worked with our members
and partners in Austin, Houston, North
Texas, and San Antonio and beyond to build
collaboratives preparing for Community-
Based Care.
Our members led the way and guided our work in 2022.
Our
members established new evidence-based
prevention and family preservation services,
and kinship and therapeutic foster care in
Texas, and are working to develop more homes
for every kid in need. They work tirelessly to
find permanency for kids lingering in the
system and then make sure they are stable
at home. They created programs to support
specialized populations, like CSEY and aging
out youth.
They have dedicated time and resources to
support trauma informed care and strong
clinical and mental health networks.
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FOCUS ON THE FUTURE
Building the Right Capacity
Training Professionals for the Highest Quality Workforce
Support for Community-Based Organizations that Make a Difference
Providing Innovative services Across the Continuum
OUR 2022
2022 Year In Review
PRACTICE MAKES PROGRESS
