UT researchers: Texas child maltreatment prevention programs working

AUSTIN (KXAN) — As Texas lawmakers continue their efforts this year to overhaul the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that a certain type of DFPS program is having success at a surprising rate.
The Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing at UT Austin studied 137,068 caregivers who received prevention services between 2008 and 2015. These families received Prevention and Early Intervention services which