Child Welfare

Child Welfare

Services designed to ensure that children are safe and that families have the necessary support to care for their children successfully.

Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS)

Public state agency charged with regulating child care and protecting children, elderly and/or disabled adults.

Child Protection Services (CPS) Goals

Safety, Permanency, Well-being

Ecological Perspective

Human behavior and social functioning within an environmental context.

Strength based Perspective

Practice methods and strategies that draw upon the strengths of children, families, and communities.

Developmental Perspective

Understanding individual growth and development and family development from a lifespan perspective and examines individuals and families interacting with their environments over the course of time.

Permanency Planning Orientation

Focus on safety maintaining children in their own homes or if necessary, placing them permanently with other families.

Cultural Competence Perspective

Understand the perspective of clients or peers who may come from culturally diverse backgrounds and to adapt practice accordingly.

Values

The family is an ever changing institution that provides the basic foundation for societal values.

Family functions

Procreation, Socialization, Enculturation

Systems

The family is a system composed of a group of subsystems, each interrelated.

Culture

Culture plays a large role in the way families operate. Values, Communication, Spiritual beliefs.

System Communication

Refers to the manner in which family members relate to one another within the family system and to the outside world.

Stressors contributing to childhood poverty

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Stressors on today’s families

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Programs

Programs, services and legislative efforts date back to the War on Poverty that attempted to changed the “ culture of poverty” in America.

Historical progress

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