Volunteers

Volunteers play a critical role in supporting our mission and assisting our families.  Nearly 3,500 trained volunteers and 439 volunteer groups worked with DFPS to help families. Examples include sitting in the hospital with sick children, answering phones for the Texas Youth Hotline and organizing emergency resource rooms. Volunteers served a total of 153,272 hours which equates to $3,776,617 of donated time. To learn more about how to become a DFPS volunteer visit become a DFPS volunteer.