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Foster Care Consortium
Committed to promoting the well-being of children in out-of-home care in North Texas.
Who we are and how you can help…
Who We Are
The North Texas Foster Care Consortium is a coalition of organizations and individuals committed to improving the well-being of children who are in out-of-home care and at risk of removal.
What We Do
The members of the Consortium foster communication, collaboration and information-sharing; promote innovation; share and develop resources and advocate for policies and laws consistent with our mission.
Join Us
Membership is open to any organization that directly or indirectly serves the needs of foster children in the North Texas region.
GET INVOLVED WHERE IT MATTERS
Members of the Consortium recognize that improving outcomes for children in care requires all of us to work together.
On both the state and local level, the members of the Foster Care Consortium partner together for innovative changes in the foster care system, producing better outcomes for children in care or at risk of removal.
Add your voice, your skills and your help by becoming a member of the Consortium.
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR WORK
GET INVOLVED
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Become a Member
We need your skills, your ideas, your voice and your help.
Join a Committee
Find a committee that best matches your skills.
Share your thoughts
Work to help solve problems facing the foster care community.
meetings and events
General Membership Quarterly Meetings
Our next meeting will be held virtually on August 23rd from 9:00am – 11:00am
The topic for the meeting will be Mental Health.
More details will follow soon.
Board of directors meetings
tHE bOARD OF DIRECtORS MEET ON THE 2ND THURSDAY OF THE MONTH
tHE NEXT MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR
APRIL 13, 2023
latest News
Presentation Slides from the May 3rd meeting
The Consortium meeting on May 3rd brought nearly 100 members together in person for the first time in more than three years. Highlighting the meeting were presentations by Linda Garcia, on Empower and the CBC rollout in additional North Texas counties, along with Courtney Leaverton from Our Community, Our Kids (OC-OK) who shared some excellent performance data on how CBC is doing in our western counties.
George Cannata and Afton Rutherford from the office of Community Based Care Transitions gave updates on Community-Based Care in North Texas.
We have the CBC slide presentations available for you HERE.
State of the State Report
The TexProtects Annual State of the State Report has been released. This report is published each year to provide an updated, in-depth analysis of the current state of the child protection system in Texas and how the state compares nationally. The report provides critical insights into the current state of the child protection system in Texas, including challenges faced by families and kinship support.
We are updating our name!
To help our communities better understand the area served by the Consortium, we are updating our name from the Region 3 Foster Care Consortium to the North Texas Foster Care Consortium. You will see these changes here on our website as well as in our updated logo. The communities we serve are still the counties referred to by the Department of Family and Protective Services as Region 3, which you can read more about here on our County Map.
New Community-BAsed Care Contract Awarded
On February 22, 2023, DFPS awarded a Community-Based Care contract in Metroplex East (Region 3E) to EMPOWER, a division of Texas Family Initiative, LLC. Read more about the timing and changes at the DFPS CBC Page
| Haven’t yet joined the Consortium? Complete the Online Application today! We encourage you to signup for a committee so you can actively engage in advancing the Consortium’s mission to promote the well-being of children in out-of-home care or at-risk of removal through communication, collaboration, and information-sharing and by promoting innovation, sharing and developing resources, and advocating for policies and laws consistent with our mission. |
Our Impact
7704
Children in Care in DFPS Region 3
19
Counties Served
455
Consortium Participants