$40 million additional funds secured for prevention and improved safety for at-risk children
Texas Insider report: AUSTIN TexasTexProtects The Texas Association for the Protection of Children is thrilled to learn of the proposed increase of $40 million in funding for child abuse prevention and support for family preservation by Governor Greg Abbott.
The Governors budget includes funding to expand evidence based prevention programs and makes available additional funding for Family Based Safety Services" and for Parental Safety placements. All of these programs allow the Department of Family and Protective Services to provide much needed supports to struggling parents or other relatives - helping ensure children stay with their families as opposed to being removed and placed into foster care.
The Governors budget also allocates new funding to help safeguard military families and address their unique challenges surrounding periods of deployment.
The support of Governor Abbott to protect children and strengthen families is very encouraging. By improving how the state treats its children the Governor is helping to ensure a stronger Texas tomorrow. Due to no fault of their own over 66000 Texas children are sexually abused physically beaten or severely neglected every year" noted TexProtects Founder and CEO Madeline McClure of Dallas. While the need is even greater $40 million in additional funding is an excellent start to changing the trajectory of Texas families.
A copy of the Governors budget priorities can be found at
http://gov.texas.gov/budget.
A copy of the full TexProtects legislative agenda is available at
http://www.texprotects.org/facts/legislative/
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TexProtects The Texas Association for the Protection of Children was created to tackle issues of Child Protective Services (CPS) reform prevention and public awareness to bring a collective organized voice representing the needs of children at risk of abuse and survivors of child abuse and neglect. The organization is autonomous nonpartisan and apolitical designed to educate decision makers private funders and the public at large. To date no one single Texas organization has dedicated its focus on the main issues of protection prevention and healing of abused and neglected children.
Most importantly TexProtects has identified and activated the most powerful and effective constituency to advocate for change in these issues whom had been missing from advocacy action: survivors of child abuse and neglect.
For more information please visit
www.TexProtects.org.
