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 »
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 »
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 »
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.
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 »
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 »
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 »
Our research team at the Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing conducted a process evaluation of National Angels programming at the National Angels chapter in Austin, Texas. The process evaluation… Read more »
In our January 2022 News From the Field feature, find the latest social work news, resources, and professional development opportunities from across Texas and nationally. If you haven’t already, sign… Read more »