Every year, the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing and the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources at the University of Texas at Austin undertake the Texas… Read more »
2022 Texas Child Care Market Rate Survey
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Madden, E. E., Faulkner, M., & Aguiniga, D. M. (2022). Adoption competency in a Post–Roe v. Wade reality. Journal of Social Work Education, 58(3), 427–430. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2022.2091390
Madden, E. E., Faulkner, M., & Aguiniga, D. M. (2022). Adoption competency in a Post–Roe v. Wade reality. Journal of Social Work Education, 58(3), 427–430. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2022.2091390
How to Engage Parents, Caregivers, and Practitioners in Reunification
The child welfare system often struggles to encourage collaboration across organizations and within families. When birth families, foster caregivers, and the practitioners working on these cases engage with each other,… Read more »
Latest Research on Reunification
Check out these short research summaries on reunification and kinship care from other experts in the field and learn their implications for practice! The road to reunification: Family- and state… Read more »
Spring Updates from the Child Welfare Education Collaboration
The Child Welfare Education Collaboration program is a partnership between the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services… Read more »
Marking 18 Months of Progress with TFYHI
Over the past 6 months since our last progress report, we’ve expanded our network, welcomed new consultants, and utilized feedback to improve our interventions. To learn more about the Texas… Read more »
Reisz, S., Aviles, A., & Adkins, T., (under review). Foster parents’ attachment, trauma histories, and current parenting stress. Infant Mental Health Journal.
Reisz, S., Aviles, A., & Adkins, T., (under review). Foster parents’ attachment, trauma histories, and current parenting stress. Infant Mental Health Journal.
Latest Research on Violence Prevention
Check out these short research summaries on violence prevention from other experts in the field and learn their implications for practice! Stress and parenting during the global COVID-19 pandemic (2020)… Read more »
How Mental Health Professionals Can Support Asylum Seekers
By Alix Mammina, Communications Specialist at the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing At Girasol Texas, we’re building a network of trauma-informed professionals to support the health and wellbeing… Read more »
Personal and Professional Impact of the Pandemic on Texas School Social Workers
During the 30th Annual Texas School Social Work Conference, the Texas School Social Work Network (TSSWN) sent out a survey to all conference participants to explore the impact of the… Read more »