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January 24, 2022
A Social Work Career in CPS Research and Policy – Episode 6
Do you ever wonder what it looks like to be a political social worker? Kerrie Judice joins us to discusses her social work background, her...
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Interviews
January 12, 2022
Children’s advocacy group discusses Texas foster care crisis
The Texas foster care system has too many problems to detail in just a short TV interview. But for a taste of how bad it...
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Op-Eds
December 20, 2021
Opinion: Build Back Better can transform lives of millions of Texas children
We can’t talk about the future of Texas without talking about the well-being of our children. During the last Texas legislative session, policymakers set a...
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Statements
October 5, 2021
Dallas County ARPA Funding Proposal for Child Welfare
Dear Judge Jenkins and Commissioners Price, Garcia, Daniel, and Koch, On behalf of TexProtects and the 8 other undersigned local community organizations that advocate for...
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Op-Eds
August 28, 2021
The critical foster care reforms in Texas are having unintended consequences
Recently, we have been reading about foster children sleeping in Child Protective Services offices as if sleeping in offices is our child welfare crisis. Sleeping...
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News
May 10, 2021
Urgent Action We Need to Take in the Face of Texas’ Child Protective Services Crisis
Statement from TexProtects CEO Sophie Phillips on urgent actions we need to take in the face of Texas’ Child Protective Services crisis May 10, 2021...
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News
March 7, 2021
Texas Must Make a Transformative Change in Child Protection and Foster Care
The Texas winter freeze and power outages are once-in-a-lifetime events that qualify as collective trauma for all of us. However, for Texans who were already...
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News
February 26, 2021
Winter Storm Uri Reminds Us To Put Kids and Families First This Legislative Session
Dallas - Last week was hard for all of us; it was heartbreaking and traumatizing for Texans. We hope you and your loved ones are...
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News
February 14, 2021
The safety of our children is not an either-or-situation
Read the latest op-ed by Sophie Phillips, TexProtects CEO, at the Austin-American Statesman. "We must consider additional actions we can take to prevent children from...
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Statements
February 4, 2021
TexProtects on Gov. Abbott’s Pledge to Comply with Foster Care Lawsuit
Austin – Yesterday, Gov. Greg Abbott pledged to comply with orders by U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack in a nearly 10-year-old class-action lawsuit over...
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