The Friday Connection: Trauma Informed Care + Kinship Care – Non-TACFS Members

Join TACFS/TX Center TBRI Practitioners and special guests speakers on the last Friday of every month for connection and conversation around Trauma Informed Care with considerations for special populations. Over the course of 9 months, TX Center staff will facilitate rich conversations with guest speakers and continue creating space for peer learning. Staff will pull

Texas Family Support Network 101

The Texas Family Support Network is excited to offer the TFSN 101 Meeting to learn more about the Family Resource Center model happening across the state of Texas. Many families are being positively impacted by the FRC's within their communities and we are thrilled to be a part of seeing it in action. Our team

The Friday Connection: Trauma Informed Care + Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities – Non-Members

The Friday Connection Welcome back to the training formerly known as, TBRI Fridays!  The name is changing, but the connection will continue! Join TACFS staff this month to hear from Pathways Youth & Family Services to discuss trauma-informed considerations for children and youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our panelist include: Brad Brush - Pathways Youth

TFYHI Statewide Meeting: Celebrate, Collaborate, Connect

Zoom

Date: May 8, 2023 Time: 9AM-11:30AM Location: Virtual (Zoom) Cost: FREE Join UT Austin’s Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing, the Texas Center for Child and Family Studies, and Healthy Futures of Texas to celebrate three years of the Texas Foster Youth Health Initiative (TFYHI) and connect with other professionals serving youth in child

Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Traumatic Stress in CSEY Providers

Zoom

Date: May 17th, 9am-12pm CST Location: Virtual (Zoom) Cost: Free, thanks to generous funding from the Office of the Governor's Child Sex Trafficking Team   Introducing compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress definitions, normalization of the problem, real life examples and videos, open discussion, review tools, discuss personal intervention planning, discuss organizational considerations, provide time

Understanding the Needs of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth and Youth at Risk, May 2023

Zoom

Every day, young people are deceived, manipulated, coerced, and forced into the commercial sex industry. This multibillion dollar industry is inherently harmful and systematically targets the most vulnerable in our communities. This three-hour introductory training gives service providers, law enforcement, and youth-serving professionals the tools needed to better understand, identify, respond, and ultimately, better serve

Preparing for Community Based Care in Region 9 – San Angelo

Please join community members interested in the child welfare system for a conversation about how to best meet the needs of children and families while preparing for the implementation of Community-Based Care in Region 9. We will learn what the data tells us about the trends in foster care, explain what Community-Based Care is, and

Preparing for Community Based Care in Region 9 – Midland

Please join community members interested in the child welfare system for a conversation about how to best meet the needs of children and families while preparing for the implementation of Community-Based Care in Region 9. We will learn what the data tells us about the trends in foster care, explain what Community-Based Care is, and

Symposium on Strengthening Therapeutic Care in Texas GROs

Registration for this event is now closed. The Texas Center for Child and Family Studies, in partnership with our State's SSCCs -- 2INgage, 4Kids4Families, Belong, Empower, OCOK, Presley Ridge Family Care Network, and St. Francis -- invite RTC and GRO leaders to a Symposium on Strengthening Therapeutic Care in Texas GROs You're invited for an

CBC 7 Community Convening

Please join us for a conversation about Preparing for Community-Based Care in Region 7 Please join CBC7 as we continue the conversation about how we might prepare for Community Based Care in Region 7. During our time together, we will hear an update on CBC, discuss innovative ideas that were generated by partners from across the

Preparing for Community Based Care in Region 10

Please join community members interested in the child welfare system for a conversation about how to best meet the needs of children and families while preparing for the implementation of Community-Based Care in Region 10. We will learn what the data tells us about the trends in foster care, explain what Community-Based Care is, and

The Friday Connection – non-TACFS members

Welcome back to the training formerly known as, TBRI Fridays!  The name is changing, but the connection will continue! Join TACFS staff this month to hear from Jane Burdette from the Center for Adoption Support and Education and Dr. Annette Williams with We are Arms Wide to discuss trauma-informed considerations for transracial adoption. As always, we