Child Welfare

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Child Welfare
900 Lydia Street - Austin, Texas 78702 Phone
[phone] fax [phone] - www.cppp.org

• One Voice
• A Collaborative for Health and Human Services
• Thursday, September 30, 2004
• F. Scott McCown, Executive Director
• (mccown_at_cppp.org)

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The Benedictine Sisters of St. Scholastica
MonasteryBoerne, Texas Founders of the Center
for Public Policy Priorities, 1985
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The Changing Face of Texas
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Texas Population by Age Ethnicity, 2040
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Child Population Growth

• Fastest growing child population in U.S. between
  2000-2003
• 350,000 additional children
• 183,000 more than California
• 75,000 more than Florida
• Second largest child population in U.S.

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Indicators of Need
Source Congressional Quarterlys State Fact
Finder 2004.
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Underinvesting in Children
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. . . Especially in Poor Children
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• Whats in the Other Federal Funds?

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The Pew Fostering Results Project

• June 2003 Pew Charitable Trusts initiates
  support for the Children Family Research Center
  at the School of Social Work, University of IL at
  Urbana-Champaign, to launch a public
  education/outreach campaign called Fostering
  Results.
• Fostering Results is working nationally and in
  selected states to highlight the need to address
  federal financing mechanisms favoring foster care
  over other options for children families, and
  to improve court oversight of child welfare
  cases.
• Fostering Results will engage influential
  national local leaders, including judges, child
  welfare directors caseworkers, and advocates
  for youth for foster, birth, and adoptive
  families, using media, reports meetings to call
  attention to financing court issues.