The Adoption Provider Advisory Committee (APAC) brings together member organizations to collaborate, share expertise, and identify priorities that strengthen adoption services across Texas. Through collective input and partnership, the committee works to address challenges and improve outcomes for children, youth, and families.
JoinSupports advocacy and public policy efforts on behalf of TACFS members at a local, state, and national level. Through bill review, outreach strategies, and sharing our stories, we work together to communicate our priorities to decision-makers. TACFS also provides training opportunities and materials to build relationships with elected officials, and provides regular updates.
JoinIn 2024, we offered a monthly training series called CQI Lab, where we covered the fundamentals of conducting CQI in an agency setting through virtual education sessions. Those sessions are available for free on the TACFS Online Learning Center. In 2025, we re-envisioned our CQI support as a facilitated learning community rather than a training series. CQI Community is a cameras-on, open dialogue group for providers to share their efforts around continuous quality improvement.
JoinThe E&A work group welcomes new members interested in sharing, learning and acting on solutions that advance race equity within the child welfare system.
JoinThe focus of the TACFS Finance Leaders Work Group is to provide a forum for our internal network of Finance and Accounting leaders and staff to stay abreast of finance updates and to share best practices.
JoinThe focus of the TACFS Human Resources Work Group is to provide timely, relevant resources to our internal network of HR staff that addresses pertinent topics common for nonprofit child welfare community organizations.
JoinThe Kinship Advocates of Texas (KAT)Collaborative is a group comprised of provider representatives and other community partners who look at best practices in the provider community surrounding kinship. The focus has primarily been on verifying kin and supporting families following the achievement of permanency, but the group may expand to other topics and areas such as informal kinship care. The group meets once per month and is open to all who have an interest in enhancing practice surrounding kin.
JoinThe Regulatory Committee focuses on regulatory issues at CPAs and GROs in Texas. The primary focus is on rulemaking/Minimum Standards by Child Care Regulatory, as well as rules promulgated by DFPS of impact to residential child care operations. The group meets on an ad hoc basis. In addition to focusing on rules and standards, the group may also discuss a broad array of regulatory and practice related topics including, but not limited to: legacy and CBC contracts, the foster care lawsuit, and investigations and the resulting regulatory consequences.
JoinMental health and child wellbeing are inseparably intertwined. The federal government estimates that over 500,000 children and youth in Texas have a serious emotional disturbance causing at least moderate symptoms and/or functional impairment, 19% of Texans have experienced two or more Adverse Childhood Experiences by the age of 18, 7.8% of children had a substance use disorder in the past year, and 21.7% of Texas high schoolers have seriously contemplated suicide in the past twelve months. Recognizing this crisis, a group of passionate TACFS members formed the Texas Partnership for Mental Health Services (“the Partnership”), a body dedicated to addressing the underlying contributory factors to this travesty, across policy, reimbursement, and education. TPMHS advances a clear mission to empower mental health providers through advocacy, collaboration, and innovation so Texas’s most vulnerable children and families receive the care they need, anchored in a vision of equitable access to high quality services for every child, youth, and family connected to or at risk of the child welfare system. The Partnership brings together mental health stakeholders to strengthen advocacy, negotiate effectively, promote innovative programming, and raise quality. Bringing multiple perspectives together, it identifies and clears bottlenecks in Medicaid so children can access care across Texas and in their home communities.
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