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 »
Throughout our Texas Youth Permanency Study (TYPS), we’ve explored relationships that are important to young people living in foster care. Our research shows how relationships with birth families and relatives… Read more »
Normalcy in child welfare means the ability for children and teens to live as normal of a life as possible while in foster care. Normalcy can be seen as access… Read more »
Over the past 6 months since our last progress report, the Texas Foster Youth Health Initiative (TFYHI) has expanded our network, welcomed new consultants, and utilized feedback to improve our… Read more »
Last fall, our team at the Texas Foster Youth Health Initiative (TFYHI) partnered with four child-placing agencies in Texas. Each agency works directly with youth in foster care in different… Read more »
In 2021, the Texas Foster Youth Health Initiative (TFYHI) team conducted a survey on healthcare providers working with youth in foster care. We surveyed and interviewed healthcare professionals across Texas… Read more »
Foster Parent Attachment Styles and Trauma Histories: Study Background Connections between parents’ trauma histories, adult attachment, and parenting stress are well established; those who have experienced trauma are more likely… Read more »
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 »