The Travis County Collaborative for Children (TCCC) is an intensive, innovative and impactful initiative with over 50 committed partner organizations, representing the courts, child protective services, juveniles justice, advocates, schools, medical providers, faith communities, child welfare organizations, and philanthropists. Aimed at dramatically improving the model of care for foster children, the TCCC is focused on the following key activities:

• Growing and Sustaining Healing Families by actively recruiting and retaining foster families, equipping them and other caregivers with the tools and guidance necessary to heal children; and raising awareness to engage community supports.
• Building and Supporting Trauma-Informed Organizations by providing training on Trust-Based Relational Intervention ® and coaching on how to implement policies and practices that comply with the TCCC Definition of a Trauma-Informed Organization, System and Program.
• Promoting Trauma-Informed Public Policies, including state and federal regulations and laws, that embrace practices to reduce trauma and incentivize agencies and families who pursue trauma-informed healing.
• Sustaining a Highly-Coordinated and Effective Collaboration, by engaging a committed network of individuals and organizations that agree to align action steps for improving services, participate in cross-organization and cross-sector facilitated discussions to inform decision-making, and share data to evaluate impact.

Download our recently completed analysis to learn about the needs and challenges associated with placing foster children. This analysis collected information on the needs and challenges associated with placing foster children in Central Texas that can be used to inform a targeted, collaborative recruitment effort.

The report is being used by the Travis Country Collaborative for Children, and others, to define a strategy that will increase available healing foster families and community support.