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, and various special initiatives. In FY 2018, 910 families received services in Atascosa, Bexar, Brazoria, Brown, Cameron, Coleman, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ector, El Paso, Fort Bend, Grayson, Harris, Hidalgo, Hudspeth, Johnson, Lubbock, Maverick, McLennan, Midland, Montgomery, Nolan, Nueces, Parker, Potter, Runnels, Smith, Starr, Tarrant, Taylor, Tom Green, Webb, Wichita, Willacy, Wise counties.
CBCAP also supports primary prevention efforts such as 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 DFPS investigates, but either does not confirm abuse or neglect or confirms an allegation where the risk is low. Services include home visitation, case management, parent education and other services that contribute to a safe and stable home environment. This program served 271 families in Bexar and Guadalupe counties in FY 2018. Contracts for this program ended on August 31, 2018, and it is no longer available.
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 needs. Some of the approaches include mentoring, youth leadership, youth skills classes, and recreational activities. CYD served 17,424 youth in Bastrop, Bexar, Brazoria, Caldwell, Cameron, Collin, Dallas, El Paso, Ellis, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Hays, Hidalgo, Hockley, Lubbock, Matagorda, McLennan, Nueces, Potter, Randall, San Patricio, Tarrant, Travis, Webb, Wheeler, Wilbarger, Willacy, Williamson counties.