Children's Justice Act

*19 Feb 2010
The Texas Children’s Justice Act program has issued a competitive request for application (RFA) to interested parties for the development of a training curriculum and implementation guide for use throughout Texas in providing training to school district personnel. Click here for more information on this program or to view the RFA.

Healthy Foster Care America Website

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has launched a website to promote improved health and well-being for children and teens in foster care. Healthy Foster Care America is designed to engage communities in supporting children, youth, and their families with the services they need and a continuum of care.

Child welfare and related professionals and organizations can access the site to find tools, resources, and information on the health and well-being of children and youth in foster care. Foster parents and kin caring for children may also find appropriate resources to help them in their caregiving and to learn more about mental and physical health issues and interventions.

The new website is part of the AAP website: www.aap.org/fostercare/index.html

*05 Feb 2010
The Texas Children’s Justice Act program has issued a non-competitive request for application (RFA) to Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA) to develop and deliver structured child abuse and neglect training for law enforcement officers. Click here for more information on this program or to view the RFA.

*05 Feb 2010
The Texas Children’s Justice Act Task Force set aside an additional $25,000 to support scholarships for professionals and volunteers to attend approved conferences. For more information, click here.

*12 Dec 2009

The Texas Children’s Justice Act is pleased to announce the following small training grant awards:

Grantee	Award Date	Program Title	Amount
38th Judicial District, Bexar County	10/01/2009	15th Annual Bexar County Children’s Court Ad Litem Training	$ 4,000
Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas	10/01/2009	Strengthening Partnerships/Protecting Children Annual Conference	$ 3,868
Center for Child Protection	03/01/2010	Investigative Techniques in Child Sexual Abuse Cases	$ 4,000
Children’s Advocacy Center of Smith County	01/15/2010	Children’s Advocacy Center of Smith County Multidisciplinary Team Training	$ 3,045

For more information click the grantee name. For information on how to apply, click here.

*01 Oct 2009

The Texas Children’s Justice Act is pleased to announce its 2010 grantees:

Grantee	Award Date	Program Title	Amount
Children’s Advocacy Center of Smith County	10/01/2009	Kids in Court	$ 34,735
Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas	10/01/2009	Statewide Training and Technical Assistance	$ 249,566
CASA of Travis County	10/01/2009	Transitioning Youth Advocacy	$ 43,000
Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS)	11/01/2009	Investigations and Family Based safety Services Joint Leadership Intensive Staff Training	$ 100,000
East Texas Child Advocates	10/01/2009	Bridge to Permanency	$ 44,599
Greater Dallas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse	10/01/2009	Texas Alliance for Drug Endangered Children	$ 80,000
Harris County	10/01/2009	Court Team Training for Infants and Toddlers Court	$ 20,000
Office of Court Administration	11/01/2009	Child Protection Court Enhancement Project	$ 117,614
TCU Institute of Child Development	10/01/2009	Training Conference to Improve Outcomes for Children in Care	$ 80,000
Texas CASA	10/01/2009	Quality CASA Advocacy and A CASA for Every Child	$ 249,531
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio	10/01/2009	Accidental and Inflicted Mechanisms of Injury: A CD ROM for Investigative, Legal, and Law Enforcement Professionals	$ 98,872

For more information click the grantee name. For information on how to apply, click here.

*12 Aug 2009

The Texas Children’s Justice Act is pleased to offer a limited number of scholarships to the following, upcoming conferences:

Program Title	Event Date(s)	Location
Texas CASA 20th Annual Conference	10/07/2009-10/09/2009	San Marcos, TX
Texas Foster Families 36th Annual Conference	10/08/2009-10/10/2009	Corpus Christi, TX
Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas Annual Conference	11/02/2009-11/04/2009	Austin, TX
ChildSafe 2009 Child Abuse Conference	12/07/2009-12/08/2009	San Antonio, TX
National Children’s Advocacy Center’s 26th Annual Symposium	03/22/2010-03/25/2010	Huntsville, AL
National Children’s Alliance Leadership Conference	06/07/2010-06/09/2010	Washington D.C.
22nd Annual Crimes Against Children Conference	08/09/2010-08/12/2010	Dallas, TX

The link to the original scholarship announcement as well as application information can be found here.

*12 Aug 2009

The Texas Children’s Justice Act has grant funds available to support multidisciplinary training events aimed at improving the investigation, prosecution, administrative and judicial handling of criminal and/or civil child protection cases. Additional information and application details can be found here.