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During the 2025 legislative session, state lawmakers will have the opportunity to make significant headway on challenges facing Texas kids and families. Certain issues have emerged as higher profile priorities for this particular session, including […]
Our Director of Early Learning, David Feigen, testified to the Texas Senate Natural Resources and Economic Development Committee on November 14, 2024 as the Committee discussed ways to improve access to child care. During his […]
Updated Texas data and policy recommendations on child care, child hunger, health care, family-child interactions, and other early childhood experiences that shape school readiness.
What happened this session on health coverage, foster care, child care, pre-k, children's mental health, Early Childhood Intervention, and more.
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Early Childhood Intervention contracts with community organizations – such as Easter Seals, Any Baby Can, and Texana Center – to provide life-changing therapies and services to babies and toddlers with autism, Down syndrome, and other […]
Download a PDF of the one-pager here. Help parents find services for their children with complex mental health challenges. Many Texas parents are desperately looking for mental health services for their children — but finding […]
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This commentary originally appeared in the San Antonio Express-News. Like so many other Texas parents, Serena struggled to find affordable, high-quality child care so she could go to work. For a year, she was stuck […]
Texans Care for Children recently interviewed providers and moms with Medicaid health insurance throughout the state about the implementation of the Medicaid 12-month postpartum extension that the Legislature passed in 2023. Interviewees identified significant HB […]
Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) provides vital services to infants and toddlers under age three with disabilities and developmental delays, but underfunding is putting both providers and children at risk. Research we conducted with multiple ECI providers […]
Children’s mental health challenges have been on the rise nationally and across the state. In some cases, unmet children’s mental health needs are driving kids into the foster care system. Unfortunately, Texas Medicaid only covers […]
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