Child Protective Services Board
Partnerships: Raise Me Up
The Board is partnering with Casey Family Programs to help launch the "Raise Me Up" campaign aimed at sparking community involvement to help the more than 500,000 children in America's foster care system. Austin will be the first city in the nation to host "Raise Me Up," an intensive public awareness campaign that will employ compelling ads for television, billboards, print and radio during the next two months highlighting the challenges facing children in foster care – and what individuals, families and communities can to do help.
"Raise Me Up" is sponsored by Casey Family Programs, the nation's largest operating foundation dedicated to improving foster care. In close collaboration with Texas Child Protective Services, raisemeup.org will provide opportunities for people to make a difference in the lives of children in foster care by connecting them with organizations like the Travis County Children's Protective Services Board and events in the Austin area. This campaign will harness the vast power of communities, families and individuals who are willing to raise their hands and help bring real change to the lives of vulnerable children.
By partnering with the Casey Foundation, our Board strives to inspire action and engagement to strengthen families and improve the lives of foster of children. More than 28,000 of the nation's children living in out-of-home care are in the Texas foster care system. Children who grow up in foster care disproportionately experience homeless, unemployment and prison. "Raise Me Up" aims to motivate caring adults to guide vulnerable children to a brighter future.
This campaign will include the airing of the new ads, which bring much-needed attention to the vast number of young people in the nation's foster care systems and the difficulties they ultimately face without caring adults to intervene to help them.
