Our members at Foster Angels STX hosted their 3rd Annual Luncheon yesterday. A couple of us learned so much about the immediate services and support they offer to children and youth in South Texas!

Thank you to our member The Children's Shelter in San Antonio for a wonderful luncheon honoring your “angels” and community champions.

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Register for the next installment of our Continuous Quality Improvement Lab! This time our team will cover 'Selecting Tools to Measure Outcomes.' Learn more and attend the May 21 Lab now: buff.ly/3QztoNz

Our Strengthening Residential Care Series will continue virtually on at 10AM on May 14. Join the session to learn about serving youth with higher needs and some challenging behaviors. Register now: buff.ly/3Uy0Y7S

May is #MentalHealthMonth . According to SAMHSA, 1 in 6 U.S. youth experience a mental health condition each year, and only half of them receive treatment. Learn more and get the awareness month toolkit from NAMI at buff.ly/3QsmdqG. #TakeAMentalHealthMoment

The Center's Online Learning Center is rocking a new style. Check out new courses, search by category, and start learning today! buff.ly/3WxVbSq

Leroy, Chelsey, and Valerie are the folks on our team working directly with young adults to gain voice and influence through the Alliance for Our Futures work. They are listening ears, helping hands, and caring hearts serving young people with lived experience. #ThankAYouthWorker

TACFS Award Nominations are NOW OPEN! TACFS member organizations are invited to submit nominations for our annual awards announced at the Texas Child Care Administrators Conference this October. Submit nominations by June 15: buff.ly/44vYo65.

Today, a few of us attended the Closing the Gap in Houston: Minority Children in the Foster System convening hosted by the Advisory Committee on Promoting Adoption of Minority Children to address disproportionality.

CBC is moving forward in Regions 4 and 3W! This week, @4Kids4Families and Our Community Our Kids (OCOK) (in Cooke, Denton, and Wise counties) moved into Stage II where they will expand to focus on permanency opportunities for children, youth, and families. Learn more: buff.ly/4a2HRZl

May is National Foster Care Month. Please join us in observing the month by learning about foster care, listening to those with lived experience, supporting organizations doing the work, and advocating for policies that uplift the people most affected. #FosterCareMonth #NFCM2024

🥳 #NewMemberAlert 🥳 Our new members at Direction61:3 are a faith-based, transition support organization showing up for youth aging out of the system. Their housing and services are in McKinney and Denton. Learn more: direction613.org

Find out if the TACFS photographer got your good side at Monday's Spring Member Meeting. The photos are available on Facebook now: facebook.com/media/set?vani….

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. We're celebrating the important work of FRCs in our network building up communities by supporting the families they serve. Check out our last Two-Minute Talks Show with Pattie Rosenlund from @EastersealsRGV! #CAPM2024

The TACFS Spring Member Meeting was our best one yet! With child and family wellbeing providers from all over Texas, we got to dig into data and trends, learned about T3C, and made policy wishlists for the children and families we serve. More to come!

“I started seeing children that I removed in the early 2000s aging out of foster care and began to question why? Why are they still in care? What could have been done differently.” 🗞️ Check out our #CAPM2024 blog on the Texas Family Support Network. tacfs.org/capm-2024-the-…

🥳 #NewMemberAlert 🥳 How is Friends of the Children - Austin breaking the cycle of generational poverty? Well, they believe in a model that connects youth to long-term, professional mentors and they have the research to back it up. Learn all about it: friendsofthechildren.org/texas

The Harvard Kennedy School Government Lab (GPL) just released a new publication, 'Translating Kin-First Commitments Into Practice.' Check it out: govlab.hks.harvard.edu/translating-ki…

Parent Leader Jamie Chavez talks about all the benefits of working side-by-side with FRC families. PEI-funded FRC Project Unity BCS and so many others were with us at the first annual FRC Summit in Austin last month. #CAPM2024 #EveryFamilyEveryCommunity