Services
PEI contracts with community-based agencies and organizations to provide services to prevent the abuse, neglect, delinquency, and truancy of Texas children. Services are voluntary and provided at no cost to participants. However, all services are not available in all Texas communities. To find out if services are available in your community, search for programs available in your county in the PEI section of the DFPS website or HelpandHope.org.
Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAP)
This program funds community-based organizations that provide child abuse and neglect prevention services. CBCAP services include parent education, fatherhood services, parent leadership, home visitation, and various special initiatives. CBCAP direct services were available in Bexar, Cameron, Concho, Denton, El Paso, Fort Bend, Harris, Hudspeth, Kerr, Nueces, Runnels, Tarrant, Taylor, and Tom Green counties. In FY 2016, 1,105 families were served.
CBCAP also supports primary prevention efforts such public awareness campaigns and outreach. This includes the DFPS child abuse prevention campaign, Help for Parents, Hope for Kids.
Community-Based Family Services
This program serves families that CPS investigates and either does not confirm abuse or neglect or does confirm an allegation but the situation is low risk. Services include home visitation, case management, parent education, and additional services shown to contribute to a safe and stable home environment. This program served 420 families in Bexar, Brown, Callahan, Coleman, Comanche, Eastland, Guadalupe, McCulloch, Mills, Runnels, and San Saba counties in FY 2016.
Community Youth Development (CYD)
PEI contracts with community-based organizations to develop juvenile-delinquency prevention programs in 15 ZIP codes that have high juvenile crime rates. Communities tailor services to their need. Some of the approaches include mentoring, jobs programs, career preparation, and recreational activities. CYD includes youth leadership development and a youth advisory committee. CYD served 15,538 youth in Bastrop, Bexar, Caldwell, Cameron, Dallam, Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Galveston, Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Harris, Hidalgo, Loving, Lubbock, Maverick, McLennan, McMullan, Medina, Montgomery, Nolan, Nueces, Potter, Randall, Tarrant, and Travis counties.