• TACPA Mission

The Texas Association of Child Placing Agencies is a non-profit association dedicated to improving services to the children and families for which we care on behalf of the state of Texas.

Our membership is comprised of licensed Child Placing Agencies who contract with the Department of Family and Protective Services from throughout the state that provide recruitment, training and support to foster and adoptive families and case management and support services to children in foster care.

Paramount for this association are the policy issues related to the care-giving of foster children and their preparation for permanency. Our goal is to prevent the failure of children served by the system and our priority is to improve services for foster and adoptive children through policy development.

We are dedicated to identifying current trends and needs in the field of foster care and adoption in order to assist policy makers and obtain necessary support and programming for the children and families of Texas.

TACPA, within the parameters of the association's By-laws, works to:

• Assist members in maintaining the integrity and competence of member agencies
• Assist members in advocating on behalf of member agencies and the children, youth, and families served by member agencies
• Assist in improving the child welfare system and the delivery of child welfare services at the local and state levels

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