Child Protective Services Board
Initiatives
Youth Aging Out Committee
Youth Aging Out of Foster Care is a new committee created in response to concerns about the relatively high risks these youth face when they exit foster care, such as homelessness, incarceration, unemployment, teen pregnancy, and further exploitation. The mission of this committee is extend the goals of CPS – safety, permanency, and well-being – into adulthood for foster youth in Travis County.
Efforts to date include providing a report on the results of our community needs survey and outcome data to the Commissioner's Court in April of 2008, and starting a subcommittee of the Ready by 21 Coalition to coordinate the expertise and efforts of multiple stakeholders in the community concerned with better supporting the successful transition of foster youth to adulthood.
Safe Kids Fund
The Travis County Children's Protective Services Board established and operates a small non-profit corporation, Children's Protective Assistance, Inc. dba Capital Area Safe Kids Fund. The Fund is used to raise charitable dollars to support children, families, and CPS.
Other benefits of the Fund are flexibility and quickness.The Fund is able to pay for needed items that the state or Travis County cannot or will not fund. The Fund can make emergency payments or pay items more quickly than government payments can be made. This helps bring services to children or families more quickly and often with less of a burden on CPS caseworkers.
