Want to discuss this article more on Facebook Live? Vote for it above! By Patrick Tennant, Ph.D., LMFT-Associate Important to Know: Ask all clients about trauma history using validated scales… Read more »
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Social Workers Can Collaborate with Physicians to Create ACEs-informed Healthcare
Want to discuss this article more on Facebook Live? Vote for it above! Join us for the upcoming Facebook Live Session with the author of this article! By: Beth Gerlach,… Read more »
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study: The evidence behind what we know
Want to discuss this article more on Facebook Live? Vote for it above! By Monica Faulkner, LMSW, Ph.D. Important to know: In the late 1990s, researchers collected data from 17,000… Read more »
The Journey to Safety Part 2: How do you travel 1,500* miles?
This is part two of “The Journey to Safety” blog series which aims to tell the stories of Central American women asylum seekers and are now in detention in the… Read more »
News from the Field: January 2017
This month, we’re featuring a new publication on trauma-informed child welfare practice. The 2017 Texas Legislature also began, giving social workers, youth-serving and child welfare professionals lots of opportunities to… Read more »
Mejia Lutz, E. (2016, November 13). Texas foster youth struggle to get college degrees. Texas Tribune.
In this article on Texas foster youth, TXICFW research coordinator Tymothy Belseth shares the struggles Texas foster youth face in accessing higher education. Mejia Lutz, E. (2016, November 13). Texas… Read more »
Faulkner, M. & Francis, W. (2016, November). Fix Child Protective Services By Making It a Place Where Social Workers Want to Work. Versions ran in Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star Telegram, and the Austin American Statesman.
In this op-ed, Dr. Monica Faulkner identifies how to fix Texas Child Protective Services by making it a place where social workers want to work. The majority of Child Protective… Read more »
Why being reflective is so important for foster and adopted children.
Thanks to a generous grant from Sue Fairbanks, TXICFW will be conducting a Randomized Control Trial of “Family Minds” this year. Research Associate Tina Adkins developed the intervention as her… Read more »
Evaluating Texas’ child maltreatment prevention program, Project HOPES: What we learned and where we will go
In 2015, there were 66,721 confirmed cases of child maltreatment in Texas and 113 child fatalities due to abuse and neglect. Over the past couple of years, Texas Institute of Child… Read more »
Welcome to Swetha Nulu, our new Research Coordinator!
We sat down to learn more about our newest staff member, Swetha Nulu! She will oversee research coordination of the Project HOPES evaluation, a child maltreatment prevention program funded by… Read more »