Color me SAFE Foundation Helps families in financial distress

Color me SAFE Foundation helps families in financial distress and communities in three areas.

Direct Family Consultations

We provide families with guidance when dealing with a child welfare crisis, typically when families are dealing with ongoing CPS cases.

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Parenting Strategies Program

We provide parents and families with personalized guidance, tools, and skills for safe parenting. Our programs include a certificate, which helps families meet court or CPS training requirements.

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Education & Awareness

We work with communities to provide training and general awareness sessions to parents, educators, and others to identify, prevent and mitigate potential family/child crises.

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Direct Family Consultations

We support families with limited financial means in cases where they need guidance and solutions in dealing with Child Protective Services or facing other child welfare-related challenges. Our services are tailored each family’s needs, as each case is different. We provide services such as:

Guiding providers and community members regarding when to contact CPS with the concerns about the well-being of a child and what to expect after they make the call.
Working with survivors of domestic violence when children are involved.
Advising families on how to respond after CPS has opened an initial investigation, particularly what to ask, what to expect, potential outcomes, and how to appeal a case if needed.
Advising families who have had children removed and placed under state conservatorship regarding what steps to take to be reunified with their children.
Reviewing CPS case documentation and preparing a detailed analysis for families to help understand the complexity and severity of their case, to determine whether to appeal and have their case potentially overturned.

Parenting Strategies Program

We support families with financial limitations by offering access to the color me SAFE Parenting Strategies Program. Families can voluntarily enroll in the program to strengthen their foundation, and it is frequently recommended by courts or by CPS.

The color me SAFE Parenting Strategies Program is different, in that it is fully customized and co-created with each family, to meet their unique needs and family dynamics. We don’t tell you what to do. We show you the options and work with you to design the solutions that work best for your family. You will gain the tools and insights needed to transform and improve family dynamics, rather than just going through the motions.

Education & Awareness

We work with institutions such as schools, daycares, therapists, other nonprofit organizations who work directly with families and children to conduct educational awareness trainings. Our programs vary from a few hours to a few days and are customized to the specific needs of the organization. We have conducted trainings such as:

Training survivors of domestic violence on how to navigate the landscape of child welfare, co-parenting, CPS, and working with family law attorneys.
Training therapists on understanding the landscape of CPS, such as understanding how a CPS investigation works from the beginning to the closing of the case.
Providing educational sessions to the public on effective co-parenting, bullying prevention and intervention, and understanding the signs of abuse and neglect.
Educating immigrant and refugee families to help them understand the child welfare laws of the State of Texas.
Organizing sessions to empower and educate South Asian families and their children to better navigate the unique challenges they face when managing dual cultural identity and integrating into American society.