DFPS helps find safe and loving homes for children in our care.
Press release from Texas Department of Families and Protective Services
05-06-25
Families Open Homes and Hearts with Kinship Care Family members can help give children a safe, loving, and stable home when they are unable to live with their parents. With kinship care – or relative care – children benefit by living with relatives they know and trust in a place that’s familiar and safe. Give Children a Safe Place to Live: Foster Care Foster care gives children who are unable to live with their parents or other family members a safe place to live until they can return to their parents’ home or are found a permanent home. Reuniting Families and Finding Children New Forever Homes After CPS removes a child from their home, our caseworkers work with families on what we call a permanency plan. It’s a road map to getting the child into a safe and permanent home. First, we work with families to return the child to a parent or parents, and that is usually what happens. But, if that’s not possible, we work to find an alternative family (preferably a kinship family) to adopt or accept legal custody of the child. With adoption or legal custody (permanent managing conservatorship or PMC), a new family makes a lifelong commitment to a child – giving the child a chance to have a “forever” home without CPS in his or her life.
Helping Foster Youth Become Successful Adults The State of Texas DFPS has many programs to support older foster youth as they become young adults. These programs make their transition to adulthood smoother and help them identify and achieve long-term goals at school, at work, and in everyday life. The benefits can include assistance with college tuition, health coverage, housing, and much more. |
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Foster and Adoption Agencies in Texas
A child placing agency (CPA) is a private foster and/or adoption agency that works in partnership with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to train foster and adoptive parents and find homes for children. If you foster or adopt a child in the conservatorship of DFPS, the agencies below can provide you with services at minimal costs.
To learn about requirements for becoming a verified foster parent or approved adoptive parent, read Texas Child Placing Agency Foster and Adoptive Parent Training Requirements, which provides details on each child placing agency and their unique requirements for licensure. If you need help finding a CPA that’s right for you, contact your local child care regulation office.
Foster and adoption agency offices are located in most regions of Texas. Several of them provide services statewide. To find a CPA in your area visit this site.
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Resources for Foster Families
If you are a foster parent looking for information and assistance, there are organizations throughout the state that offer support to foster families. Resources are sorted by those that serve regions of Texas as well as cities and metropolitan areas. These organizations work specifically with current and former foster youth and their families. For a list of mentoring opportunities for foster youth, visit the Mentoring Foster Youth page.
