The Child Welfare Education Collaboration (CWEC) is a partnership between the Steve Hicks School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Department of Family… Read more »
CWEC Call for Training Proposals
Posts By: Katelyn McKerlie
2020 Texas Child Care Market Rate Survey
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 undertook the… Read more »
Empowering birth and foster parents: A summary of the March 2020 Safe Babies evaluation report findings
By Kaitlyn Doerge, MSSW The Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing has been collaborating with First3Years to evaluate the Safe Babies program since 2017. Safe Babies began in Tarrant… Read more »
Safe Babies Report: March 2020
Safe Babies Evaluation Report March 2020 If you are having trouble accessing the report, please email Kaitlyn Doerge at kaitlyn.doerge@austin.utexas.edu. Recommended Citation: Faulkner, M., Doerge, K., Batchelor, J., Marra, L.,… Read more »
Panisch, L. S., Faulkner, M., Fernandez, S. B., & Fava, N. M. (2020). Exploring how trauma is addressed in sexual education interventions for youth: A scoping review. Health Education & Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198120954398
Panisch, L. S., Faulkner, M., Fernandez, S. B., & Fava, N. M. (2020). Exploring how trauma is addressed in sexual education interventions for youth: A scoping review. Health Education &… Read more »
Intentional Connection in the Time of COVID-19: An update on the Children with Special Health Care Needs Project
Interview by Allie Long At the beginning of this year, our Institute began a three-year partnership with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to help develop and implement… Read more »
The Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing receives $5.4 million-dollar grant for The Texas Foster Youth Health Initiative
September 10th, 2020 Austin, TX. About 50% of females who experience foster care in the United States are pregnant by age 19 compared to only 33% of girls across the… Read more »
August 2020 News from the Field
Welcome to our August 2020 News from the Field monthly feature! This is an extension of the bottom of our newsletter. We will be providing you with some of the… Read more »
Watt, T. & Faulkner, M. (2020). The Texas tuition and fee waiver program for youth who experienced foster care: An assessment of waiver utilization and impact. Children and Youth Services Review, 117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105285
Watt, T. & Faulkner, M. (2020). The Texas tuition and fee waiver program for youth who experienced foster care: An assessment of waiver utilization and impact. Children and Youth Services… Read more »
July 2020 News From The Field
Welcome to our July 2020 News from the Field monthly feature! This is an extension of the bottom of our newsletter. We will be providing you with some of the… Read more »