Texas must make fundamental changes to CPS that focus on protecting children in their families when possible or in their communities and fully commit to community-based foster care as the vehicle for CPS reform. Texas should transfer the full continuum of child welfare services to regional providers.
Family
From Policy to Progress: Highlighting the Successful Child Welfare Bills of the 88th Texas Legislature
“HEB has a better tracking of their produce than DFPS does of children in their care.” U.S. District Court Judge Janis Jack made that statement in a 2020 hearing for the decades-long M.D. v. Abbott child welfare court case. In 2015, she found that ongoing problems with the Texas foster care system amounted to a...
July 30, 2023