Teen pregnancy prevention in Travis County is a priority issue. Healthy Youth Partnership (HYP) examined statistics on teen birth rates for Travis County, Texas, and the United States and found… Read more »
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Consumer satisfaction for DARS clients 2015.
Gerlach, B. and Tennant, P. (2016). Consumer satisfaction for DARS clients 2015. Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin, Child and Family Research Institute.
2015 Texas Child Care Market Rate Survey
The Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing (TXICFW) partnered with the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources (RMC) to lead the 2015 Texas Child Care Market… Read more »
Sensible criminal justice: Strengthening parent-child relationships
By Hannah McDermott Last week, President Obama spoke to the NAACP the extraordinary rate of incarceration in the United States compared to other nations; 2.2 million individuals incarcerated, he said. … Read more »
Vocational Rehabilitation Needs of Individuals with Disabilities: Findings and Next Steps of the DARS Comprehensive Statewide Needs Assessment
By Tania Jordanova As a Research Coordinator at the Child and Family Research Institute, I am currently working on a project to understand the post-school transition needs of youth and… Read more »
Using my journey in higher education to help others
By Adrian Gaspar At the University of Texas at Austin there over 51,000 students. 27 are former foster youth using their tuition waivers. I am one of them. My name… Read more »
Life as an Undocumented Longhorn
by Anayeli Marcos I am one of the few who did not laugh at my professor’s joke about his favorite taco truck driver being deported. I am one of the students… Read more »
Guide to Conducting Community Needs Assessments
Guide to Conducting Community Needs Assessments This guide is intended to assist communities applying for funding through the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to prevent child maltreatment. The… Read more »
A brave, new conversation about teen pregnancy prevention
by Monica Faulkner Most people agree that we should try to further teen pregnancy prevention in Texas. What we get bogged down in are the details: Do we teach kids… Read more »
QIC-AG for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation
By Rowena Fong Child welfare interventions that target adoptive/guardianship homes on the brink of disruption/ dissolution are often provided too late and therefore do not serve the best interests of children… Read more »