The 2026 Texas Child Care Cost of Quality Price Modeling Final Report examines the incremental costs of providing higher-quality home-based child care in Texas. Researchers from the Ray Marshall Center at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Texas…
The Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing (TXICFW) partnered with the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources (RMC) to undertake the 2026 Texas Child Care Market Rate Survey. The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) contracts the survey as part of an annual…
Community-Based Care (CBC) shifts child welfare services from a state-operated model to one led by community-based organizations known as Single-Source Continuum Contractors (SSCCs). We, along with our partners at the University of Texas at Arlington and University of Texas at…
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month (DDAM), which recognizes the contributions and potential of people with developmental disabilities. In honor of DDAM awareness, the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing (TXICFW) highlighted stories produced by the Heart Galleries of…
March is National Social Work Month. Take some time to learn from TXICFW’s staff, and what led them to the field of social work. Beth Gerlach, PhD., LCSW, Associate Director What inspired you to pursue the work you do at…
The Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing at The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work will launch a centralized hotline to connect youth who have aged out of foster care with workforce resources, educational opportunities and…
A new study from TXICFW Director Dr. Monica Faulkner, Samantha Zuniga Thompson, and colleagues Anna Wasim, Dr. Catherine A. LaBrenz, and Nelkasia Graves, explores how foster and kinship caregivers perceive and navigate family engagement within the child welfare system to…
To improve early childhood outcomes in Texas, the Texas Early Learning System proposes the following vision, goals, strategies, and actions for the years 2024 to 2026. Through funding from the Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B5) Renewal, the…