¡Attención!
SAVE THE DATE!
Training Opportunities:
Post Ike: Youth Services Respond to Crisis
Holly Bell, Amy Dunn, Jack Nowicki
December 16, 2008
Houston
Rethinking Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Frank J. Kros
January 16, 2009
Austin
and
Youth In Action
February 4, 2009
TNOYS & Texans Care for Children partner to hold Youth In Action/Children's
Advocacy Day
For more information click
here
Services To At Risk Youth (STAR) Program
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
The Services to At Risk Youth (STAR) Program provides services to youth in at-risk situations and their families. The purpose of the program is to reduce family conflict and to prevent the problems of runaway, truancy and delinquent behaviors by:
- helping youths and their families resolve crises that threaten their capacity to live together;
- helping youths and their families develop skills to cope with problems and stresses in their homes;
- helping parents resume and maintain their parental responsibility; and
- providing short term placement for youths whose immediate return home is not advisable.
Originally established as a demonstration project in 1983 to serve runaway and truant youth, the program has expanded from its original 12 sites to 54 contracts providing services in all 254 counties by the end of 1998.
The STAR program is administered by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Department of Prevention and Early Intervention.