Contributing Factors

• Cultural norms; family dynamics, secrets 
• Poverty - impacting basic needs; living wage
• (Cycle of) domestic violence
• Knowledge of and access to services
• lack of affordable child care 
• lack of mental health resources 
• drug abuse and addiction
• lack of family support; single parents
• basic knowledge life skills; child development 
• affordable health care
• transportation; isolation
• affordable housing 
• high turn over in CPS and human services
• Pandemic 
• over worked and overwhelmed community workers

Restricting Factors (what's helping)

• Public awareness about mental health
• visual advertisement 
• community events opportunity for resources
• Home visiting programs
• referrals; anonymous reporting 
• early intervention services
• virtual visits 
• parenting classes; social groups
• Parental support to break the cycle
• better reporting
• communication and collaboration between services
• after school activities; affordable summer programs 
• multi generational living situations

• Early Childhood coalitions  
• DFPS/PEI/ CPS- Resources, data, educational support; investigative workers
• Faith-based community - mentors, support
• TX Workforce Commission - child care and training
• Business leaders - funding/vocational training
• ISDs
• 211 Texas
• Texas Agrilife EFNEP 
• THV and other home-based visiting programs - education/support
• UWCB, Success By 6 Family  Support Services - Parent Cafes, 24/7 Dad 
• Purple Door - education
• MCH Family Outreach 
• Hope House
• STCH Ministries 
• Esperanza de Tejas 
• Catholic Charities 
• CASA
• MHID
• Criminal justice partners - support, education, awareness
• Health District 
• Libraries
• Educational professionals - support, mentors, education, awareness
• Driscoll Children's Hospital 
• Medical professionals; pediatricians, mental providers  - awareness, support, education
• CACOST - ECI 
• Del Mar College; Texas A&M CC
• Parents and families
• foster agencies 
• policy makers; local government

• Nonprofit that serves Latino Community 9
• Home visiting programs 7
• Mental health services 7
• Parenting education programs 5
• Community Health Workers 5
• Awareness campaign (social media/apps) 4
• Parent cafes 3
• Block parties 2
• Child care clubs 1
• School-based programs 1

Priority Strategy: To strengthen understanding about child abuse and what to look for, implement parent educational programming

Action Steps:

1. Identify who, where, when classes offered
2. Provide master list of classes
3. Brainstorm and share creative ideas to increase participation to overcome stigma of needing support
4. Promote classes 
5. Track participation rates across programs

Priority Strategy: To increase family awareness about child abuse and prevention, increase the scale or implementation of the evidence-based practice of home-based visits

Action Steps:

1. Identify and map all home visiting programs including THV
2. Promote home visiting programs 
3. Identify number of allowed families (capacity) and announce vacancies
4. Participate in the home visiting Community Advisory Board subcommittee of SB6 coalition 
5. Share ongoing continuous quality improvement efforts
6. Advocate for additional funding to expand capacity

Priority Strategy: To address underlying factors that contribute to child abuse and neglect, increase access to mental health services

Action Steps:

1. Participate in Texas System of Care
2. Show need (Correlation to CAN and mental health) to the need to those who provide MH services ie. Behavioral Health Services, Family Counseling Services, Women Shelter, NAMI, Bayview, MHM.
3. Engage potential MH partners who have a role to play 
4. Where feasible collaborate to leverage funding to increase services identified to have the greater impact.