Texans Together mobilizes the greater Houston community and the 12 neighboring counties to champion family well-being and child safety. We work collaboratively to protect children, inspire hope, and create lasting stability and permanency—building a stronger future for families across our region.
Community Based Care (CBC) is a landmark reform of foster care services in Texas. This model empowers local organizations to manage and direct services needed for each child in foster care, keeping children closer to the community they know and fostering local collaboration to serve children and youth.
Texans Together, a nonprofit corporation, oversees Community Based Care as the lead agency for Region 6. We strive toward servant leadership as we seek to unite the community behind a shared vision for Community Based Care. We hope to transform the child welfare system into a model for family well-being that will build prevention alongside intervention, hope and resilience alongside trauma awareness, and healthy families as the place where children thrive. Through our collaboration with community partners, we will build a diverse network of organizations that tailor their services to the specific needs of the families we serve.
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The Texas Department of Family Protective Services announced the award to DePelchin to become lead agency in Region 6.
Stage I Readiness
Stage I Go-Live
Stage II Readiness
Want to learn more about Community Based Care in Region 6? We’ll be hosting town halls across the region to share information, answer questions, and connect with future partners. These events are a great opportunity to dive deeper into the CBC model and learn how Texans Together will operate.
Dates, times, and locations will be posted here, along with RSVP links for each event. We encourage you to RSVP in advance so we can plan for space, materials, and refreshments—we’d love to see you there!
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Community Based Care is a change in the way foster care is delivered in Texas that gives local organizations more responsibility for coordinating services and supports for children and families. The goal is to create a more flexible, responsive system that is deeply rooted in the communities it serves.
In Stage I, a single contractor—known as the Single Source Continuum Contractor (SSCC)—develops a network and begins providing foster care placement services. Texans Together serves as the SSCC for Region 6.
The focus of Stage I is on improving safety and well-being for children in paid foster care, helping them stay closer to home and connected to their communities and families. Texans Together will be responsible for placement services for children already in paid foster care, as well as those entering it.
Stage II builds on all the work of Stage I and adds even more services to support children and families. In this stage, Texans Together will begin providing case management, kinship services, and family reunification support—serving all children in DFPS conservatorship, not just those in paid foster care.
The goal of Stage II is to expand the full continuum of care, increase stability, and help more children and youth find permanent, loving homes. The transition from Stage I to Stage II depends on readiness and approval from both DFPS and Texans Together.
While we’re not entering into contracts just yet, there is a formal procurement process as we build a diverse network of providers across Region 6. If you’re interested in partnering with Texans Together, stay tuned for updates on opportunities to engage and participate in the process.
Formal readiness began in the Fall of 2025. We are releasing more detailed information about the contracting process, timelines, and how to get involved.
This will include foster care and residential placements as core components of the service network. Additionally, we’ll be looking to partner with organizations that provide services supporting broader family well-being – such as behavioral health, family preservation, kinship care, and others that strengthen families and promote long-term stability.