INSTITUTION Texas State Dept. of Community Affairs, Austin. Office of Early Childhood Development: PUB DATE Dec 75 NOTE' 171P

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TITLE 'Guide to Children's Services:. 1975-76. Take Stock in Texas: Invest in Children. INSTITUTION Texas State Dept. of Community Affairs, Austin. Office of Early Childhood Development: PUB DATE Dec 75 NOTE' 171p.

EDRS PRICE MF-$0.83.HC-$8.69 Pius Postage. DESCRIPTORS Bilingual Education; Community'Agencies (Public); *Community Resources; Day Care'Services; Dental Health; *Directories; Disadvantaged Youth; *Early -- Childhood Education; Exceptional Child Services;

Federal Progracs; Handicapped Children; *Health , Services; Nutrition; Private Agencies; Psychiatric Services; Religious Agencies; Social Services; State Agencies; State Legislation; *State Programs; Statewide Planning; Welfare Agencies; *Welfare Services IDENTIFIERS .*Texas

ABSTRACT A reference manual of statewide progrims'for chi ldren nnder age .6 in *Texas, this Guide is designed to helppublic officials, community groups, professionals who work with childrenand other interested citizens identify and obtain assistance in meeting the needs of children and fa lilies. Information is givenon state and public agencies, private organizations and industries whichoffer services ranging from help for handicapped children, BeadStart, day care, and' physical.and mental:health programs to public welfare. In addition, there is a bredkdOwn by county of whatprograms are offered and how much'money is spent in each county. Indluded-also isa directory of frequently galled officials. and agenciesas well as appendices containing state laws affecting children whichwere passed in 1975,' number and capacity of licensed childcare facilities and number of children served in selective programs in 1975 bycounty. (Author/MS) /

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} Qe.,:.ilYEsrOf EDIJC.1.1 wELcx.AE +44,,,c...AL,45,74TuTEC.0 04CAY,01. - -.£ The Honorable Dylph Briscoe Governor State of Texas'

Dear Governor Briscoe: As energy sources dwindle, TheTe* Department of Texans realize natural resources Community Affairs, Early Childhood must be cultivated and used wisely. Development Division, takes This Is no less Ore of our childrea especially the very young. AsWe .pleasure in presenting this Guide to °I Children's Services. The lists ieEirn more about howsocial statewide services for childrer I underproblem start we recognize that it 6 years old and their families. sound early childhood Is diticalto- -Texas is a landolgtaat natural success in school andlatirlife: resourcesoli farmlands, forests, We hope this book will help water, animatilfe--but its greatest communities find,ways to protect resource ischildren.Chlidren are and nurture their greatest natural the rav/materials fora productive resource. citizenry, SincereyY4urs,

Beh McDPnald,Jr. ExacutlreDirector Tam Dgertmont of Cannon* Mitts

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How to Use This Book. Purpose , you are interested,-refOto the Index, orto the Contents at the Guided to Chlidren's &wk., is ft beg inning,of the Public Agency, reference manual of statewide Private Organization, or Industry programs for children under age 6 in sections. Texas. The purpose of the Guide lab help public officitds, community If you are lookirfg for someone to groups, professionals who 'Nock With contact for Information abOtit

oh ildren; and other interested . program in' your community or citizens identify and obtain -- region, refertathe Directory: .assistance in meeting the needsof Frequently Called Officials and children and families. Agencies. , Hew to Find Programs Note: TEX-Apltelephonenumbers, - appearing with state agency k If you'are looking for the general addresses throughout thisSuide,, typos of statewide assistance refer to theTexas AgenoYetwork, a available irt.a broad area, such -as state-leased, long distance network "education," "mental retardpon," Providing lower cos'tservicefor most orufrition," refer to the inlex. State govemmentlocations. TEX-/IN js user! by State employees If you know the narrie of the plading official- busi nesical Is. agency or organizationthaf = . adminitters the program in: which

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Because you work with programs affecting children and.ftudli:es, you kncwhcrwhard a it is to keep, up with changing services This book can'be a big help. 0 and Staff. GUide to Children's Services: 1975-76 contains capsules of information about statewide programs for children under 6programs of public agencies,-private t organizations .and industry..

You will notice, if you are familiar - with our publications, that this is the newest edition of Early Childhood Dermacpment in Texas, published guide to Children's. previously in 1971, 1972 and 1973 -74. If this is your first edition from us, 'Services: 1975-76 please not the instructions, "Bow to Use This Book," on the inside front cover. - in Texas; .1tdren Keep this book on'your desk or near your telephone. We this* you will use it Idhood Development often. )f the Texas Department unity Affairs 5 4tSeryices 17 Jeannette Watson, Directpr Early Childhood Develcgment Division ervices 81 Texas sDepartmant of Commlnity ,.109 ,'al lei Officials IS ..117'

14141VIRSIA .+, sEcitCtalwi Affecting Children Passed -in 1975 141 Appendix B: Number of Children Served in Selected Programs in 1975 by County, by State Planning Region 143 Appendix C: Number and Capacity of Licensed Child Care Facilities in 1975 by County,' by State Planning R-6gion 1157 Index 1q3

1 Budding authortzatons Intaled 93,558,5200.1)in Texas In 1974, mart/tripling that 0115 yews earbor t =CFSUICT t ,

Take Stock in Texas; Invest in Children

If we think of Texas as a giant develop to their fullest potential. It home to work. Of Texas mothers with corporation. we would view children means that handicaps or problems children under six, 40 percent are in as its most important asset can be recognized early and treated the labor force. The result 'Van Certainly, Texas' oil, water and other so that children can grow as increasing demand for child care. resources are valuable, but, children normally; as possible. Too many preschool children bring the long-term dividends and The principal investors in children are left at home alone while their children influence what happens to are families. But today's families are parents work. Texas has some 32,000 other resources. With nurture and having to cope with problems of these "latch-key- children under guidance. children mature properly, different front those faced by familiesthe age of 6. The reasons may be that without careful attention, they can in years past. For example. child care centers cost more than the ,become liabilities. By liabilities we Texas familits are moving family can afford, are too far away, are referring to such social problemsrapidly, thereby breaking ties with ,andare not open during the times as juvenile delinquency, drug grandparents, other relatives, and the parents work. addiction, mental retardation, Mends who could provide guidance Communities also invest in emotional disturbance, alcoholism and support in childrearing. Over a children. Local communities, for

and crippling handicaps. Such. recent five-year period, three of four example, provide schools, . . liabilities are costly in terms of Texas families with children under6 playgrounds, clean water, hdalth human suffering, the loss of human moved at least once. services and other opportunities for potential, and the needless drain on Mdre and more children are normal development. Communities tax dollars. being reared by only one paient, as maydraw upon the resources of In the development of human indicated by a 28 percent increase in government, private organizations, resources, as in business, a key to Texas divorcee over a recent five- and industry to provide children -s successful investment is timing ' year span. In tact, 46 percent of all services, most of those programs are when is the margin of profit likdy to civil suits filed in 1974 were for described in this book. These be the greatest for the leastcost? In divorces and annulments. programs are important to todays 1 human development terms, the time Some Texas parents are families because they help families is early childhood. in early childhOodchoosing not to marry. Births out of realize their goals for their children. (the firdt six years of a person's life) wedlock rose 25 percent in Texas In Texa.5 is only as great as its the body grows more rapidly than a recent five-year period. people. We invite you to take stock in at any other time in life, learning is Many Texas parents are Teas, invest in children. intensive; attitudes and habits are extremely young themselves. The forming that will carry a person- number of births to mothers 19 and through a lifetime of living and under is climbing at a rate five times learning. An investment in early that of all Texas births. Jeannette Watson, Ditector childhood means that children will . Rising living costs are forcing Early Childhood Development havdoppoctunities to grow and more and more mothers outof the Division December 1975 5 3 Texas fanners hanroved $2.928.135417 sn taloa gram v sokhum. rose gra:Wiwi, pecans and other craps in VI 1974

Early Childhood Development Division.of the Texas Department of Community Affairs

. The Early Childhood Developmenttheme of this Guide because we wanthealthy, dell-balanced-individual Division (formerly the Office 9f Early yOu to think of Children as resources. prepared to.taxeon the challenges of . Childhood Development) of the Natural resources are seldom useful school and later fife. Texas Department of Community in they raw, primitive states, they Looking at the young child as a Affairs gives information to must be cultivated and refined. If we whole, considering all one's needs communities tohelp them meet the view children as resources,,we-must for sound deVelopment isthe needs of children underage 6 and , consider what would enable them to approach that the Early Chrldn* their families. do well in school, find a job and Development Divisibn of the Texas'77- How we have helped communities become productive citizens in Department of CommunitiAffars and how we can help you is the society. Bodily needs food, brings to the task of,meeting subjectof the first section of the clothing, shelter come first. Then childrehs needs. Our guidipg

Guide toChildren'sservices. The there are needs for phYgical exercise .philOsophy is that the family is the next three sections tell how other and for health care. There are need best wdy to meet children's needs, State agencies (including other for love and affection and for moral and parents are the chief influence 'divisions of the Texas Department of guidance. Finally, but no less' on what children become. We COMmunity Affaird), private important, achild needs believe that in the community all organizations and industry can help gpportunities for self-esteem, 'kW-interested agencies and the children in your community. achievement and.selflfulfillment All organizations should worts together. Before School What? of these needs physical, mental, We can help community agenciei, We have chosen "TakeStock in intellectual, and social must be work together. We also can offer Texas; Invest}n Children" as the met if a child is to evolve from a information and assistance to single cell in the rrrother's b6dy to a parents, professio'nals, and the State as a whole. Here's how: 8 5, I

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Pierre the Texas Pelican . a- Community Assistance Project Sites Regional Coordinators 4f *-COunty Prdjects in Parenting EduOtion o Child Developmdnt Associate Program

7 A A I .6 r. ;' A Resource for Communities. programs the community considered A "community" can. be a most crucial. (The selection of the A municipality, acounty, a region or a communities and their initial similar kind of geographical or plaAning efforts arebletailedinilow political unit. TheEarly Childhood Thirteen Texas Communities Started' Development Division stands ready Working for Children,published in to help Texas' diverse 1975 bylhe Texas Department of Community Affairs.) J. "communities" respond to the needs of children under age 6 and their The Early Childhood Development families. Division provided technical Specifidally, the Early'Childhood assistance and limited State funds to . DevelopmentDiviIion has tools each community over three -yeas which can help communities answer period. Many of the communities such questions as: used all or a-portion of theirState What are the needs of funds for matching with federal . children Under 6? mpney through the State Department How does a community agree of PubliC Welfare. They generated which needs are most other resources for various State and urgeht? local agencies in the community, What resources already exist /including private organizations. for children? The thirteen communities, their How does a community needs and resulting programs, are as achieve coordination among follows:(Sde Directory section for child- serving agencies and names and addresses of contact organizations? persons.) How should early childhood 1, Falls County needed, . programs be planned? additional child care. Approximately 4. .../=How should early childhood 180 children of working mother's in programs be carried out? Marlin, Lott-Chilton and Rosebud are How can early childhood receiving care that includes health, programs be evaluated to see nutrition, social, educational and if they really work? transportation services; the program e COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE. includes cation for parenthood. PROJECTS in 1972, the Tdxas 'Operating Agency: Falls County Departinent of CoMmunity Affairs' Parent-Child Centers.

Early Childpood Development 2. Fort Bend County took a, Division began assisting thirteen census of the county's approximatdly Texas communities in responding t 7,000 prescOool children to learn earlybhildhood needs. The purpose about health and development was to show That community 'problems_Thapioject now offers cooperation works tht is, that diagnostic and referral sewices; community agencies, working provides parenthood education, and together, can bring more and better coordinates dental hygiene services

health, education and social services in Rosenberg and throughout the .

to-families. Fundamental to the. County. OperatingAgency: Lamar project was community , Consolidated Independent School determination thatis, allowing the District. . r community itself to study the needs 3. Houston County exparided of its children and familiei, sur_vey Its child care operation to the early childhood programs serve approximately 60 children and alread9 available, andset up , infants. The project, located in Crockett, includes health and social services for about 20 teenage expectantmothers, children's health services, and parenthood

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-information In'Octobef1975 the children in Rio Grande Ciand. The Eel-1y Childhood Development project added a mobile educational surrounding commonitiand Division also provided funds and van; equipped with toys, instruments started a health educati n program technical assistance to four. and audio visual materials, to serve in Starr County Merdo al Hospital communities for special projects. some 80 facriffied in rural areas. The for.parentsOperati Agency. 1. Nacogdoches created t. teacher-drixier assesses children for Coriimunity Actionouncil of South Project IMAGINE, a compiehensive. health and developmental problems: Texas. infant care center for 24 children refers families to otherservices if. 9. Texas P-andle(26 under age 3, the project also offers necessary, and demonstrates counties) hasgun generating ..parenthood information. Operating parenting skills Operating:Agency. community s port for childcare. Agency. Austin Heights Baptist LIFT, Inc. 'programs a d providing Church. . 4 Lamar County areal suppleme' al funds and technical -2. Sweetwater established a preschool enrichment progittns, assistan e to five child care centers multicultural child care and including testing and referrals, for in Ama Ilo, Pampa, Perryton, Cactuseducational program. Operating 140 children in Wads, Dd. Mar.. and.T lia. The project is also Agency. Community, Action Council Chicota and Sumner. Ope',:ting coo,. mating the training child of Nolan County. Agency. County of Lamar. ca workers with Amarill college, 3. Rouiid,Rock renovated a city 5 Navarro County expanded u ing funds from a feder building for use as a public child 'a prenatal clinic in Navarro anpower grant and thEarly oare facility. Operating Agency: Ctty Coimty Memorial Hospital in Childhood DevelOpmt Division. of Round Rock. Corsicana, to serve approximately Operating Agency. T4xas Panhandle 4. Uvalde established a 100 pregnant mothers, hired a Community Action Corporation. comprehensive child development pediatric nurse practitioner to giv 10. Texas Migrant Council program for 30 children under age 6. well-baby clinics throughout th subcontracted with three nonprofit Operating Agency. Christian Way, County', and began providing organizations to provide child care Inc. parenthpod information in th for migrant families. 1)4Coastal Bend By September 1975, the clinics Operating Agencyavarro Migrant Coyndil 54 children in Communities had serveel_some 3,000 County Consultation Cen Corpus Christi, Taft, andMathis, 2) Texas children directly and another 6 Polk-County esteshed a Colonies del Valle 60 children in 50,000 family members indirectly. . Department of Human esources in McAllen and Pharr, 3) Llano Aside from serving families, the Lixiingston to explore ocial service 'Estando/Farmworkers of Tejas, Inc. community projects provedthat programs and provi e public 58 children in two centers in State assistance in childcare and information and r: erral services. Tahoka and Anton. health services is worth the money. . The Department as generated new 11. Corpus.Christi has a In 1976, using the practical, social serviceoney for the CoUntY comprehensive early childhood_ t experience gained from these and createdo child care centers development program, made thirteen communities, the Early serving 65 c ildren in Livingston andpossible through the cooperation of Childhood Deyelopment Division Corrigan operating Agbncy County a numbef of local public and private will help other selected communities . of Polk. agencies, for 56 children and their increase tl?eir ability to respond to

7. n Patricia County set families. Adminislering Agency. City early childhood needs. The Division , up a stem of 25 family day homes, of Corpus Christi. also will answer incoming requests in S ton and throughout the County 12 El Paso created a system of for training and technical assistance. to rovidecare for approximately 90 child care centers providing social, For more information about c ildren of working mothers. educationalchealth and nutrition community, assistance, contact fjerafing Agency. San Patricia services for about 500 children. Bruce Esterline, (512) 475-5821. CbuntCommittee on.Youth Operating Agency. El Paso YWCA REGIONAL COORDINATORS Education and Job Opportunities. with the cooperation of United Way Bedause Texas is'so large and 8. Starr County provided medical,of El Paso because several State agencies have ' dental and visual screening and 13. Galveston created a regional units, the Early Childhood treatment to apprpximately 1,200 satellite program to the Galveston Development'Divisipn is conducting Early Childhood] .earning Center. an experiment in planning and The program provides education, health and Social services to.50 children near the poverty level. Operating Agency: Galveston Independent School District.

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coordinating chiltren's piogramiat the Divisipn could use the Current the regional level. The Texas Awareness system to keep up to date Department of Community Affairs on current research'about infant . contracted with each of two regional care. Periodically, the Division would Councileof Goliernmentstclhire a reiiew abstracts of current research. regional coordinator. One rlicles about infant care and if -- coordinator serves the twelve-countynecessary, go to a library for the full area served by the Coastal Bend ' textof the Article or document. The - Counoltof Governments, Corpus ", Division would use the information, Christi; the other coordinator, the then, in assisting the community. three-county area served by the 3) Training orientation South East Texas Regional Planning sessions; and workshops td train Commission, Nederland. Each works pefsone,'ing the information through a Child and Youth systeni. F uently, ttie persons who Development Council focusihg on request cir %ie!not information the needs of children. In additiort4hespeciallsts5;ThEarly Childhood coordinator for the South East Texas,Development Division offers training region.helped organize a county to help them interpret statistics council for children in Hardin and accurately and fairly assess needs of

Jefferson Counties, througti the young children. For more details -

sponsorship of the County Judges. about the infOrmation system, . ° (See Directory section for names and contact Diann McKee, (512)475-6118. addresses of regional coordinatore.) A Resource for Parente . INFORMATION SYSTEM The Even though-many of today's Early Childhood Developnient parents plan for their first baby and"; Diyision has what is probably the mosteagerly await its birth, the S comprehensive informationsystem resporisibility of caring for a bat y's on young children and their families 01: Often takes parents by surprise: . . of any state in the nation. lt,corisists Couples fend to live great distances: of three parts: ' from their own parents, and the trend 1) FACS (Family and Child. today is toward smaller families. Statistics) a.data bank of statistics Therefore, parents and teenagers from the Census, health agencies, have Iiitlopportunity, to observe city directories and numerous other young children or to consult older. sources, including the Texas persons with parenting experience. Household Survey of Families with The increased number of illegitimate 'Children Under Six (commissiOned N births and the rising divorce rate in p especially by the Texas Departmept r' Texas mean that many of today's of Com.munityAffairs in 1973)/The parents are extremely,young and/or data will be compulerized in 197610 single, thereby adding to theirjob as speed responses to infoimation parents. requIsts. Those curiently using Texans ranked "education for FACS include puVic officials,state parenthood" a major need of Texas agencies, personsplanning early families at regional forums childhood programs, and the press. conducted in '9972-73 by the Texas 2) Current Awarenepe an index Department of Community Affairs' of published research materials Early Childhood Development appearing in education, psychology, Division. In 1974, the Governor's and child development journals as Task force on Youth Care and well at tn other publications. If, for Rehabilitation issued a examplethe EarlyChildhood recommendation for strengthening Development Division were working parents' understanding of their roles with a community considering the and responsibilities. Several national creation ofan infant care program, groups, including the1970 White House Conference on Children and the Education Commission ofttie 10 r 9 *--' States, have called forlricreaSed Because of a delay in obtaining opportunitiesforparents to'learn the narnes (Vey/ babies, Texas parenting skills: parents dnot begin receiving the The Early Childhood Development .first issues of Pierre until the child is, Division has foUr projects in 3 or 4 monthiold.To overcome this parent* education, each with a delay, ttle Early Childhood different.focus: 1)Piertesthe'Texas DeveldpmeritlXvision is asking elicah, a statewide informational Hospitals to give parents the first prograai for n,emtiarents; 2) three three issues otPierre shortly after

county projecti,based on to41 . ° the baby is born. Pierre can be parentin,needa; 3) Primary distr-ibuted thrbugh groups such as Prevention, a project in health .' hospital auxiliaries or associations education fotMothers with infants; for mental health, or throughthe and 4) a pilot, audio-visual coarse in hospital itself, as a gift to nefiV ,pa'renting for junior high s ch ool -parents. As of December 1975, F students. 2 parents in 120 hospitals were PIERRE THE TEXAS PELICAN receiving the first three issues of nationally recognized newsletter Pierre. series that helps parents understand ,',The Early Childhood Devekipment hOw children grow and learn from Division will expand the distribution birth to age 6.The Early.Childhood of Pierre through more hospitals in Development Division mails the 1976. In addition, the Division will- series free to all Texas parents begin asking, parents to request the havingpeir fiFst child. The number remqnder of the series voluntarily, of Texas families receiving Pierre the rather than sending the entire series Texas Pelican will climb to 155,000 to them automatically, as iris done in 1976. now. Parents will also have the Named for the cartoon character option of a Spanish edition tif Pierre. who narratesthe'series,Pierre For more information aboutPierre, .designed to appeal to alrfamtlies, contact Pat Black, (512) 475,3487. regardless of educational or income CQUNTY PROJECTS IN PARENT- level. The twenty-eight-Part series ' ING EDUCATION Every community -was written by Loyd Rowland, Ph.D., 'in Texas has different parenting former Executive Director of the dducatiOn needs. krone community, Lbuisiana Association for Mental for example, child abuse maybe a ' Health. Revised periodically with big problem; in another community, suggestions from international parents may need to learn how to .experts in the early childhood field, provide proper nutrition. Aside from Pierre has been used successfully. having its own needs, each.-- for Many years by parents in several community has different resources. states: The series has bean endorsed In one community, the hospital's and by the American Medical _ Red Cross units'may provide Association's Council on Mental. instruction in baby and child care; Health and by the TexasPediatric another community may offer high SOCiety. school or child developtnent classes: , The Early Childhood Development As4Fesult, the Early Childhood Division started distributing the DeveloPment Division decided to series'in July 1973. Nantes are give three communities a cha'nce to obtained thrOugh the Texas examine their own parenting needs Department of Health Resources, and develop the progrims the Bcoaau of Vital Statistics. Wailing is domMunity thinks most important. aooperalive venture with-the Texas In April-1975, the Division awarded Association for:Mental Health. , Falls, Lamar, and San Patricio bounties $20,0,90 each year for an expected period of three years. As

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, , a guide in planning, each county provide primary health care in the demonstrated ability to work well formed a Parenting Education Task home. The aim is that these parents 1 with children aged 3-5 in a group Force, made up of parents, local will understand how tp safeguard care setting. The CDA.program is a officials and representatives of local and prom'ote their babiesealM, new, nationwide effortio assure

IgenciSs and organizations thereby preventing disorders from .qualified child care personnel ,

concerned with young children. happening-Program guidelines for through competency.based training. X Eed,h County identified the needs of the project will be developedin early! TheOfficie of Child Development,' r lOcal parents thrOugh such methods 1976 and contracts will be awarded.. U.S.. Depgtment of Health, as questionnaires, group meetings in mid-year. Education an Welfare, developed .and interviews. AUDIO-VISUAL COURSE FOR the CDA concept in 1971:The The protects will be in operation in TEENAGERS = In Novembeilq75, thefollowing,year, several nStynel

December 1975. They are expected Slate Departmentsof Public Welfare, organizations with interests in . tOcover a wide variety of topics,' in cooperation with the Texas childrenfind dedentiating formed such as child develdpment, nutrition, Department of Conity Affairs' the national CDA Consortium to family hattlth':and parent-child Ealy Childhood Development design a way to assess CDA interaction. in addition, the sites will Division and the Texas Education candidates and award thvredential. attempt to refer families to Agency, funded the Baylor College In 1973, the federal Office of Child appropriate agencies for other i pf Medicine, Houston, to develop an Deyelopment funded ten pilot sites needed'services, such as family audio-visual course in parenting for across the nation to begin CDA counseling and adult basic junior high schoolstudents. The training. Independently, the Texas

education. (See Directory 'section for course will consist of twelve half- , Department'of.Community Affairs' names and addresses of Project dour television programs and Early Childhood Development DirectorS.) For more information discussion guides. It will be pilot Division established seven CDA pilot about the projects in tested in the Houston Independent training sites in Teas, using state Parentint education, contacArturo' School District in 1976. funds and the national CDA Gil, (512) 475-6406. guidelines. ConctifirentiYithe federal

PRIMARY PREVENTION One of A Resource for Professionals Office of Child Development urged , the most universal needs of parents is With the growing number of Head Start Supplementary Training learning how to keep their children working mothers and the increasing grgntees across the nation to begin physically healthy. There are three demand for child care and ea,:ly CDA training for Head Start staffs. ,levels of preventing handicaps. childhood education, Texas needs a The seven Texas CDA training avoiding.the occurrence of the steady supply of able teacher- sites were Tarrant County Junior

handicap or abnormality altogether . caregivers. Experts agree that the College, Stephen F. Austin State through regular care and prompt quajityof an early chilphood University, Texas %Van's treatment of minor health problemd`, program depends op the University, Texas Christian

, 1identifying a handicap early andcompetence of theAtaff, on the skills University, Texas Southern obtaining treatment or training to and understandih.g the staff bring to University, Texas A & I University, limit the extent of the disability, their interaction with young children. and Pan American University. rehabilitating a person to beMENT , In addition to the seven Texas' Sr modify the effects of g.defect or ASSOCIATE PR AM sites, the Early Childhood disability. .". Child Development Associates, beveiopment.Division contracted The Early Childhood Development or CDAs, are People with Austin CommUnity College.in Division has decided to work in the awarded a credential forlheir August:1973, to develop a CDA first area with apilot health progranj, building fn theeXperience education project called Iprimary. of/he original seven. Other Texas Prevention." In the project, colleges and institutions such as El approximately&J mothersith Paso,CorridnitiC011ege and infants will lean" what normal Incarnate Word College in San ' development is, when to suspect Antonio, have adopted CDA something is amiss, and how to programs and received technical assistance. , t I . , The first CDA crntials wera 'TEXAS COMMITTEEON System, andthe Texas Department of ,awarded in a Was ington, D.C. -!r EARLY CIJILDHOOD Community Affairs' Early Childhood ceremony in July 19, 5. In August,_ DEVELOPMENT C ./1+,REERS ,Developmegt Division. -The fifty- seventeen pe s from Texas. Pers ons interestedin careers in rrieri*ecgroup became the Texas .Oklihoma, and New Mexico become working with young children can COmmittee on Early Childhood CDAs in ceremonies at Bedford, nearobtain-training in many ways in Development Careers. Fort Worth. AmPhg the seventeen Texas:but there is no career system .Committee members include 1 t . , were nine Texans. Another CDA whichrecognizes their training-and trainers those who teeph early _candidates are assessed by the experience:Over the past sgveral childhood and home ecoftipsin national Consortium, the number of yeals.many have called for high schools and co - _CDAs will continue to grew. .some kind of sytem to assure teacher-caregivers . hp The Texas CDA Progrpm trained staff. The *ups include the.work with children in ..1e and. produced not orq trained and Texas AssoCiation for the Education school settings, 3) representatives of credentialed CCrP;s, but also a CDA of Young Children,. the 1972 Houston professional organizations, aid 4) .training curriculum. The curriculum Early Childhood Education' members of state agencies. They appears in the Texas CDA . conference participants and the. Texas Department of Community,' InstructioparMaterials end will be 1V9 Texas Senate*Complittee on_ Affairs Early Childhood . , kolidateg Over the next two years by Preschool Educational Standards. Development Division furnishes staff Texas instifutions of higher learning. In titayN1975 a state interagency for the Committee. These include: Tarrant Courky panel called together across-section .The Committee divided into three Junior:College, Fort Worth; Easpeld of fifty people in the earilbildflood task groups: CommunityCol lege, Mestuite, development fiejd in Teigs. Ttie 1) The Career Structure Task Amarillo Colleg4, AmailiBan panel consisted of representatives Group is surveying Job descriptions, Jacinto College, pawl._ from the State Department of Public qualifications and skills. The gwalis Teiarkaaa,Cornmunity College, Welfare, the Texas Education a job matrix showing how a pergon 'Texarkana, Mclehnari Community Agepcy, the Coordinating Board of, can advance professionally, both up 6112ge, Waco; and Odena College, the Texas College and University the career ladder arqd across a range Odelgas,Aftervatidatiort,De 4 of early chil'dhoodskills. instructipilathiateAlill t2e 2) The Ckeer PreParation Task disserninatedito any school or , Group is exploringthe kindsof ;educational program in -the nation / training now available -Thigh that requests therri. for more school, colUtadult.education and. information a6outtke Texas CDA In'service. 1 a grial is to coordinate' Program, contact Caroline Carroll, educatiphalopportunities so that, ' (612) 475-6386. . . people can chooseVaining apprapriateiortheir needs..;, 3) The Career Recognition Task. ti ploup is determining various ways of eSaliiating andceredentiaii:rig early childhOodpersonnel. The aim is to recognize compeltence in every area of wdtk with young.chrldreb.

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13 , . 12 The Committee will present the Childhoolipeveloment, in planning work of the task groups to other arid developing early childhood Texas early childhood development programs at the state and community. professionals in 1976 and design a levels. way to carry out the proposed career INTERAGENCUOMMITTEE ON ,system. The Committee hopes to EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT 'build a new professionalism at all The Early Childhood Development levels of childcaring 'and teaching DiVisipn servos as staff to an that will benefit ther.hildryi of interagency committee on early Texas.Por more information about ehildhood development. The the Texas Corri-mitteedn Early Committee is a subsidiary body of Childhood Development Careers, the Interagency tigalth and Human cOntast Karen Bordelon, (512) Resources Council, whiCh is made 475-6386. . up of the Commissioners of the state A Resource for Texas agencies administering human t Texas is one of sixteen states with,services. The Council-advises the 5 a state office specifically concerned Governor in statedde planning in with ypung children. The office may ,sucti areas as manpower, social exist eitheras a totally new agencyorservices and economic as a division of an existing state opportunitie§.- agenoy. in Texas, the state office is The Council created the .0 the Early Childhood Development Committee on Early Childhood - Division of the Texas Department of Development in November 1972. On Qornrnunity Affairs. , theCpmmittee were the designated Such state-level offices can bring, repiesentatives of seven state the full force of public attention to agencies.: the Coordinating Board, the critical impoftance of the early Texas College and University years in preventing future social System; Tex4.5 Education Agency; problems. They can foster Texas Department oJMental Health cooperation among all thestate and Mental Retardation; State agencies serving children. (In Texas,Department of Public Welfare; Texas there are six major state agencies ". Department of Health (now Texas which provide services to children Department of Health Resources); and families; their services to ,* Governor's Office of Comprehensive children under 6 appear in the Health Planning (its function hasbeen Public Agencies section of this transferred to tlie:Te'xas Department book.) And, together with,otherstate of Health Re,sources); and the Texas offices concerned With early Department of Community Affairs. childhood developmertt, they can One respOnsiglity of the speak to the needsof the young, Committee was to develop early children of AmeriCa. childhood development policy 41. The Texas Department of recommendations for the Council Community Affairs' Early Childhood and the Governor. Development Division informs the public about the need's of children t , . under 6 and their families through its public education activities. It work with,other state agencies, through such-groups as the Interagency Committee On Early

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Bills colitairling the foundation for . noting Tecent developments carrying out the process were affecting children. introduced in the 64Th Legislature, In addition, the Division distributes but tip bills did-not reach the a number of publications prepared House orSenate floots for a vote. by the Office'of Child Development, PUBLIC EDUCATION The EarlyU.S. Departmentbf Health. . , .

= Cffildhood Development Division Education and Welfare. such as informs the public and parents Infant Care and Your Child from 1 to 6. through publications, newspaper ' A complete list of publications and articles. and audio-Visual order form (most publications are, presentations. free) may be obtainedby.writing the,,%t &- I The Darker, Side of Childhood: 46 Texas Department of Community Things You, Need to Know About Affairs, Early Childhood Texas Children. a pitlication and an Development Division. P.O. Box audio-visual presentation. contains 13166. Capitol Station, Austin, Texas bold facts about the needs of 78711.

children in terms of their families. 47- ..health. nuthtion, child care and Avallable,public services. Choosing a Child Care Center and Your Child: Smoothing the Way to Kindergarten (pamphlets) suggest C. guidelines for'parents in selecting group day care for cpildren,3-5 and helping 5- year -olds make the. transition from home to school. Texas Youngest Children, Executive Summary, highlights the .findilgs of the Texas Household Survey of Families with Children - Under Six, commissioned blithe Division in 1973. The supplementary Technical Report supplies statistical data frodi the Survey. Those wanting in-depth infOrmation on early childhood topics will findnumerous book titles in bibliographies prepared by4he Early Childhood Development Division. Book titles are grouped according to topic area, such at

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Table of Contents

_ . Introduction 19 Texas ComMission for the B ind 23' 4 Visually Handicapped Children'srogram 24.. Texas Commission for-the Dea 25 Texas Department of CotnfnumAffairs -26

Head Start Program , P . 28 parent and Child Center Program \, 29 / .., Texas Commission on Servicee to.Children and.Youth 30 Human Services Delively-Divisiori , 30 Public Inforrnatton 31 Texas Department.of Health Resources 32 Maternal Health, Family Planning, andChildHealth Services 34 Special Maternal arta Child Hear% Projects 34 , Women, infants and Children F'rogr;am . - 3.5 . Phenylketonuria Screening1 . 37. q.. Nutrition Services 37 .Preschool Sdeening for Vision and Hearing . 38 4 Speech and Hearing Services 38

Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment , 39 Dental Education Prograq 39

. Dental Care for Children'Of Low-Incornefainilies 1 40

Dental Care Servicils to Children 40. . Immunization Program &, 40 Child-Centered Tuberculosis Control Program 41, . Crippled Children's Services 42 : . ., IS' 17, . Rheumatic Fever Prophylaxis 43 Kidney Health Care Program.- 43 Health Education 44 Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation..46 -Mental Health Services 48 Mental (retardation Services 48 Community Services 48 Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences 50 1 Public Education and Information 51 Texas Department of Olic Welfare.. . 52 Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) 54- Child Support Program 54 Food Stamp Program 55 Commodity Distribution 55 Licensing of Child Care Facilities 56 Day Care to AFDC Recipients 56 Work Incentive (WIN) Program/Day Care 57 Joint WelfareNocational Rehabilitation Day Care 57 Protective Services for Children 'N 58 Foster Care Services for Children 58 Adoptive Services 59 .'t Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children '59 Fancily Planning OrOgram .60 Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment 60 Vendor Drugs . 60 Continuing Education Program 60 Media Services 61 Texas Education Agency ...62 AdvisorfCouncil on Early Childhood' Education 64 Foundation School Kindergarten Program 64 Bilingual Prbgram , -;'...65 Preschool Non-English Speaking Program 66 Migrant Kindergarten Program 66 Migrant Prekindergarten Program 67 .Special Project: Developmental COntinAty, ' 67 Comprehensive Special Education for Exceptional Children 68 Developmental Projects-for Exceptional Children 0-2 69 Special Project: 7erb-Reject Models 69 re Regional Day SchAoi Program for the Deaf . 69 Texas School for the Deaf: Early Childhood Educatioq Program 70 I .. Deaf-Blind Project u 70 Special ProjeCt: Family Education, Assistance and Training (FEAT) 70 Texas Regional Resource Center for Handicapped Children4 71 School Breakfast PrOgram 72 , 4 Special Milk,rogram 72 . National School Lunch and Child Nutrition Programs ... 72- V4cational Homemaking Education Programs 73 Public Information . 73 ' . Federal -LocalPrograms.. 75 . Follow Through 76 Foster Grandparents ..--- 76 Parent-Child Development Cen4er (Houston) 76

Regional Resource Center on Child Abuse and'Neglect 77 . .Small Business Loans and Economic Opportunity Loans 78 for Small Businesse$ . 78 Child Care: FOod Program and Nonfood Assistance Program 79 Texas Agricultural Extension Service Family Program 79

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I S. Introduction

Publicly supported programs offer authorized by federal and state law. finallypassedot usually outlines one way to "take stock in Texas, Federal law is identified by a name, what services are to be provided, invest in children." This!' Public such as "Civil Rights Act of 1964 "; a who is tb receive them, what Agency" section describes the number, such as "Public Law 00- agencies are to administer the publitly supported early childhood 000", or as it is entered in the U.S. program, and how the money will programs in Texas, grouped Code, such as "42 U.S. Code, 1771.1 flow. according to the state agency State law is identified by the House In some cases, Ccress will administering them or Senate Bill number in which it was amend an existing law, rather than Developing programs, based on introduced into the Legislature ores passing a new one. The Social ,federal or state law, to help families it is coded into Vernon's Texas Security Act, for example, was "` meet children's needs can be Civil Statutes. intended in.1935 as social tedious and frustrating, especially to Federal laws and funds support "insurance" for the elderly and the those unfamiliar with governmental mantearly childhood programs in. disabled. The Act has been changed jargon and the mechanics of public Texas. One reason is that many over the years so that now it administration. Because this book is problems of children, such as those 'authorizes a wide variety of a guide to children's services, it may associated with poverty, are national programs for families and children. be instructive to trace briefly how a problems. Congress passes "grant- The sections or Titles" having the taw beComes a prograrn serving in-aid" legislation, which means that most significant impact on families children. , Money is given instead of loaned, to and childrenare; How a Law Becomes a Program help solve problems common to all Title IV-A, or the Aid to Families It is important to note first that a states. It must be emphasited that with Dependent Children (AFDC) tax-supported program oomes into .every law is different and many are- program, Cash assistance being with 1) enabling legislation complex. However, at the risk of payments . and 2) appropriated funds. The oversimplification, some Title IV-B, child welfare descriptions of programs in the generalizations may be helpful. . Title IV -C, childre for women in following pages list the enabling Most laws creating new programs the Work. Incentive (WIN) program legislation and, if applicable, the do not happen overnight:Generally, Title V, Maternal and child health source of funds, under it takes years of drafting and . Title XIX, Medicaid (not to be `Authorization." Programs are redrafting of bills, testimony before Congressional committees, and compromises among various' constituencies. But when a law is t '19 `, 20: 4

confused with Medicare for the the federal Office of Economic regiopal office in Dallas, which in elderly), and Opportunity (now the Community turn hinds local Head Start programs Title XX, social services to eligible Services Administration) and in Texas and four.surroundinb families. provided the impetus for Texas to states. In this federal-local money A law may earmark federa l money create a state Office of Economic flow, the state's role is to review and for specific purposes and clients, Opportunity. At other times, the law comment on applications far Head which is called a "categoncal- may require a revamping or Start grants. (See Head Starts program. For example, the consolidating of existing agencies. programs) . Elementary and Secondary The National Health Planning Act-of Him a Program Takes Shape Education Act of 1965 under Title I 1974, for example, sought tounify Although Congress spells out a specified funds for "educationally health planning in the states. The program in the enabling legislation,. disadvantaged" children. Or the law Texas Legislature respOnded in 1975 that program acquires its final may designate money as a "bloc iyith the Texan Health Planning and appearance in the federal and state grant" for a broad range of purposes,Development Act Among its other regulations that clothe it. Federal with the state or locality deciding provisions, the Act changed the regulations are issued by the t how the money will be spent. The. Texas Department of Health to the administering agency, subject to a Housing and Community Texas Depar)ment of Health review by federal, state, and other Develop-en-dill-Act of 1974 is an Resources, so that now it is the officials. The review process, which example of a law authorizing such State's central health planning is usually 90 days, not only allows grants. agency. citizens to comment on how federal Who Administers the Program How Money Flows programs will be carried out, but also The taw t.sually specifies which When Congress passes a law gives administering agencies time to agencies are to administer authorizing a program, that law get ready for carrying out the programs. The designated agenciei. frequently sets up a dollar limitthat Prograin The newest federal are those most logically equipped to can be appropriated for the program. regulations are printed in the Federal do k). For.example, Title V (maternal Then when Congress votes the Register, issued daily, then they are and child health) of the Social actual appropriation, under a leptered into the Code of Federal Secur.tty Act is administered at the separate law, that appropriation can Wegt,Otions. The Code of Federal federal level by the U;S. Department range from nothing to 100Percent of 'regulations, the U.S. Code (the laws cif Health, Education and Welfare the amount stated in the authorizing,passed by Congress), and Vernon's (DHEW), and at the state level by the legislation. 'Texas Civil Statutes ak available in Texas Department of Health. The money that is appropriated most local legal libraries. , Resources. Most federal pibgrams mast often follows a path from - The administering state agency far children are administered by federal tb state to local agencies. frequently adds state regulations for DHEW and its many offices and Before a stateegency can administer carrying out the program, within the burdaus, some of which are the a federally authorized program, the established federal guidelines: Many, Office of Education, the Office of state agency must have authority to recent pieces of federal legislation Human Development (which engage in the program activly by have required states to develop a . includes the Office of Child virtue of existing or new state "state plan," which makes the state Development), and the Social and legislation. more accountable forhoW it spends Rehabilitation Service (welfare). ThoUgh federal-state-4label is the the money. The state plan and However, other federal agencies usual route for federal mone4, a regulatiOns outline,how the state also administer children's programs. different pail) was ctiarted by the agency intends to deliver services to Prime examples are the Department Economic Opportunity Act for Head children and families in the state, of Agriculture, whose Food and . Start. Those funds go directly from. through direct services of the Nutrition Service operates the .1-federal to local agencies. "Directly- agency's branch 'offices or through programs authorized by the National must not,be interpreted literally to services the agency purchases in the School Lunch and Child Nutrition mean from Washington- because community. The State Department of Act, and the Department of Labor, most federal agencies in PublkWeljare, for example, which' has some Job training,; Washington funnel money through purchase's day care services for programs that offer child care to their regional offices throughout the mothers in the Work Incentive enable mothers to take part in the country. Still using Head Start as.an program Worn local community program. example, funds from DHEW in. agencies. Sometitnes,,theiaw will establish aWashington go to the DHEW How the various state agencies in new agency for administering a Texps organize the delivery of program. In 1964, for example, the services in particblar programs Economic Opportunity Actcreated appears under "Program

20. 21 p Organization" and "Services" in this department abqut setting up a well- "'Public Agencies" section. child conference. Programs Derived from State Law Scondly, khowledge of publicly There are some programs serving funded programs can help children under.6in Texas which communities make the most of the originated not in federal law, but it) programs they already have. For. state law. PKU Screening and. example, a community may realize COmprehensive SpecialEducation that several agencies are working are twoexamples. Just as with with a common clientele and that 'federal law, state law specifies what mOre'courd be accomplished if all services are to be provided, who is to agencies worked together in receive them, what agency will. planning programs, delivering 4 administer the program, when the services, training staff, using prOgram will staand howthe equipment and sharing information. program will be funded. The Assistahce in achieving community administering state agency (or state cooperation may be obtained from board in the case of eduCation- the Texas Department of Community related rfrograMs) then writes Affairs' Early Childhood guidelines and procedures for development Division. administering the program, within And finally, an understanding of the bounds of thelaw. how publick fundeeprograms work Because of the new State can help communities shape the AdminiStrative Procedures Act pFog ram§ themselves. For example, passed by the 64th Legislature, state some state plans required by federal agencies in Texas are now required legislation such as Title XX of the to entertheir rules and regulations in Social Security Act call for citizen the Texas Registar, which will be comment on a periodic basis. Some printed twice weekly beginning programs, such as Head Start, hail January f, 1976, by the Secretary of parent councils or citizen advisory State. Depending upon the boards: Specific information aboUt legislation ani.the program, the citizen involvement may be obtained agency carries out programs through the contact person listed throtigh regional or local offices. with each program. More than everLr Each agency_ has a different ,before, the people of Texas have . organizational structure, so opportunities to say what kind of generalization is difficult. More programs are developed with their information about how specifip state tax dollars. prograMs take shape after passage Of a law may be obtained from the contact persons listectwith the program despriptionsithe following pages. 7 r SO What? An Understanding of how laWs a become programs, plus familiarity with the programthemselves as explained in this section can be helpful to communities in meeting children's needs. How? In the first place, this information can alert communities to programs not available locally. For example, a community may find that it does not have adequate health care for

mothers and small childrenjhe. .community may.then contact the Texas Department of Health Resources and a local health

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All se'rvice§ extended through the has a variety of programs, one of State Commission for the Blind are which is specifically designed for habilitative or rehabilitative in children the Visually nature. "Habilitative" refers to Handicapped Children's Program. acquiring an ability one has never The Commission, createdby the had; "rehabilitative" refers to Legislature in 1932, also cooperates restoring an ability One has lost. with the Texas Education Agency, Prevention of blindness through the Texas School for the Blind, the education and early intervention is a Texas Department of Mental Health primary objective. Of equal and Mental Retardation, and other importance are the services to state and local agencies in individuals whose visual loss cannotpreventive and rehabilitative b9 prevented. The objective of the programs. Commission is to assist each of its Executive Director: clients in developing attitudes, Burt L. Risley special techraquesnd Stale Commission for the,Blind ,compensatory skills necessary for a .P.O. Box 12866, Capitol Station full and successful entry into, or Austin,.Texai 78711 return to, the cultural, social and (512) 474-1901 economic mainstreams of society. , TEXJAN 825-4011 toward these ends the Commission 24 23 Visually Handicapped Humber of Children (Five and Under) Children's Program Served Last Year 1,675 (For number of children served by. Program Organization county, see chart in Appendix.) The Texas State Commissionor the Funds Spent on Children and' Blind administers the program: Under) Last Year Caseworkers for visually handicapped 6244,743 children are located in local district officesd provide services to children Admission Requirements throughout the State. (See Directory The childpnd the parent or guardian section for district offices and , must be living in Texas and have a caseworkers.) suspected visual impairment-Aeferral is accepted from anyone. Purchase of Services - service is based on economic criteria. The,purpose of the prograrb is t6 Professional services byagency field prevent blindness or visual handicap staff are provided regardless of the and the Compounding of problems ) financial circumstances of the family. which result from permanent, severe, Services begin at birth or earliest age of visual loss. Tire program provides for identification of visual-inipairment. eye medical care. Blind or low vision children and teir familie are offered Contact Persons services So the.se children have-the Julia L. Young opportunity to attain the highest Connie Cotten possible levels of development, 6erional ConsUltants for Visually management and educational Handicapped Children achievement of which they are capable. State Commission for the Blind For children who meet eligibility P.O. Box 12866, Capitol Station criteria, services involve the purchase of Austin, Texas 787-11 eye diagnosis and treatment, including (514'474-1901 surgery and hospitalization. Prosthetic TEXAN 825-4011 appliances such as artificial eyes, glasses and low vision aids are provided. Local agencies are'given every opportunity to participate in the provision of services.upportive counsel, guidance and follow-up are an important part of the eye medical program. 'Through home contacts with the family and the severely visually handicapped child, the program provides coynseling andinformaticip about blindness and services for blind, individuals.The parents receive assistance in meeting the particular needs of the child in a home intervention, prOgram. Local agencies are consulted to assure full use Of local resources for the visually haridicapped child. Literature pertinent to the development of the young, blind child is disseminated to parents and professionals. In addition to consultative services at the local level, the caseworker also functions as coordinator, facilitator and advocate for visually hapdicapped children. . Authorization *- Vernon's-Texas Civil Statute's, Article N.)7 A.

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Texas= Comrnission 0 for the Deaf 4 / -:. The Commissiori, created by thee program' ta provide ia part-ti Legislature in 1971, is responsible coUnielar for the. deaf in th?'14.irs for all state services to the deaf, ,odurity al-ea. The pi itprogram will

r.. whieliarebot legally delegated to be-in conjunctfoh with the Capital other state agencies. The "Sertoma Club and the Travis county Cothmission works with interested Services for the Deaf. The interpreter organizations:and agencies to fill theservices program will use roughly unmet needs of the hearing impaired,one-third of the $159,982 . ih Texas. appropriated to the CommissiOni In 1974 the Commission published'the Legislature for the 1'976-77

'Sources Of infOrtnatiOn antir,SerWces bi nTum. , for the Roaring Impaired in Texas: A (For other programs for the deaf, Directory,.fihe Directoryprovided see also Texas Education Agency.) information on Stale, agencies, Executive Director: school progranis, medicaland . Carl Roberts audiological services, or.ganizations and informatiOn sources, Texas Commission for the Deaf P.O. Box 12904, Capitol Station . -1-interpreting Cervices, churches far Austin, Texas 78711 . The deaf, selected federal programs, a directaribs,-.and an Index of Texas (512) 054492 (Manual cities ant1Caunties. The manual will Communication Machine be revised, in 1976. ' -,or voice). . - The Commission is p1dnning two TEX-AN 822 -2492' programs for 1976: 1) an interpreter ' -. services dog "ram, an ,2) a pilot

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The Texas Department of Development, works with Community Affairs offers technical communities in meeting the needs of

assistance to communities and children under age 6 and their . . guidance to local governments to- families. Early Childhood better enable them to overcome Development Division programs divergent problems, such as po-or appear in the front section of this' housingonemployment and poverty. book. The Department helps administer Programs of other Divisions of the millions of dollars anntratly inlederal Department touch the lives of funds directed*to communities and children and their families. The informs State officials and the public Economic Opportunity Division,. about the needs of !boat - formerly the Texas Office of governments. Economic Opportunity, reviews a A young and dynamic department, variety of programs authorized by the agendy first existed as the, the federal Head Start, Economic Division of State-Local Relations in Opportunity and Community the Governor's Office. In the:Division Partnership Act of 1974 (repfacing were such programs as the Office of the Economic Opportunity Act of Early Childhood Development, the 1964). These anti-poverty programs State Program on Drug Abuse and ,affect the care and development of theTexas Office of Economic, ,children of low-income families Opportunity. In 1971 the Texas through Heed Start, and other Legislature established the agency programs administered thro gh as thetTexas Department of Commurtity Action Agenc s. Community Affairs. Unlike Other In 1973 the Texas Legislature agencies which are responsible to voted-$1.5 million of state revenue to state boards, the Departrrlent of provide assistance to human Community 'Affairs is responsible resource organizations serving I directly to the Governor.The Many purposes. The Department thirteen-member Advisory Council responded wit ra statewide system . on Community Affairs, three that wbuld exterrd huinan services members of which are mayors. into Texas counties not previously supplies citizen input. covered by existing federal. The Department's EarlyChildrrood"programs. The result was the Human Development Division, formerly the 'Services Delivery System, Today the Office of Early Childhood Department'sHuman Services 28 t I a Delivery Division works through the Under the Comprehensive Executive Director. Governor's twenty -four planning Employment and Training Act Ben F. McDonald, Jr. regions to fill a variety of human (CETA) of 1973, the U.S.-Depahment Texai Department of needs in communities. including of Labor administers funds made Community Affairs child care and health services available to units of state and local P.O. Box 13166, Capitol Stion Programs of theDepartment's governments (100,000 or more Austin, Texas 78711 Youth Services Division are aimed at population), which are ...called -prime (512) 475 -431 older children. Programs include sponsors." The prime sponsors TEX-AN 822-2431 community assistance for juvenile develop comprehensive manpower Toll Free 1-800-292-9642 offenders and forestry conservation. training plans for their areas and The Division serves the lead' 'arrange for training services to be . .division, with support from the Early provided. In Texas, let counties do Childhood Development Division. in not qualify as pnme sponsors. For Head Start Program providing staff for the Texas this "balance of the state" area the Commission on Services to Children Governor designated the Texas and Youth, created by the Texas Department of Community Affairs, Program Organization Legislature in 1971. Manpower ServicesZiyision to Nonprofit organtzaliOns (usually Another Diinsion,with programs develop the manpower plan and Community Action Agencies or independent school districts) submit which may touch the lives of children arrange for services. Although the proposals to andarggiven grants by and families is the Drug Abuse primary focus of CETA is job trainingc'Federal Region VI. Office of Human Division. The Texas Controlled and employment, CETA funds may Development. Department of Health, Substances Act of 1973 designated. be used for various services, such as Education and welfare iDHEVY), the Division, formerly the State child care and health, to help clients Texas Department of Community Affairs. . Program on Drug Abuse, to develop participate successfully in Economic Opportunity Division, reviews a state plan for drug abuse treatment manpower programs. Informition on applications and makes

and prevention in Texas. The . the extent of use of CETA funds, for recommendationi to hie Governor. Division receives the majority of its children's services in Texas is not Services funds from the U.S. Department of available. Texas' Head Start program is the Health, Education and Welfare, as The Urban Services Division and State's most comprehensive child authorized by the federal Drug Housing Division assist some 200 development program authorized and Abuse Office and Treatment Attof Texas communities in applying for funded by the Federal Government Its 1972. The monlyisupports drug bloc grants, authorized by the purpose is to give educational and environmental enrichment to abuse prevention and treatment Housing and Community economicallix disadvantaged preschool programs, Many of which are in DevelopmentAct (HCDA) of 1974. children. These programs use community mental health centers. - The Act consolidates a number of specialized techniques, plan. "'" Some prograMs offer preventive the programs previously educational activities and use special services for parents concerned with administered by the Department of equipMent to develop the full range of their children's drug abuse problems Housing and Urban Development, each child s ability, focusing on the or potential problems. .such as Model Cities and Urban cognitive, motor, perceptu4apd social The programs of three Renewal. Under the Act, local skills. Some programs have intensive 8' Departmental Divisions, not directly governments may undertake many bilingual-bicultural components, some involved in children's services, have activitiesio improve the living omprehensive pre-reading the potential for impacting lives of environmentsettheir -communities, ies, while others are designed to meet specialneeds of children they young childreAand their families. primarily through developm6nt of serve.All Head Start programs provide These pivisions Manpower physical fabilities. However, medical and dental-care, meals or Services, Housing, and Urban communities may use funds snacks to the children and mime S ervices administer programs support some human service parental Involvement. authorized by federal legislation, programs, ihcluding child care,. Three types of.Head Start programs which may include human suppOrt health and education, provided such are in operation. Fun Year-Full Day, Full services if those human services services are necessary to support Year -PaDay, and Summer. Full Year- help fulfill the primary purpose of the other community development Full Day pl.ograinsbperate more than six program. activities and cannot be secured hour's a day during a minimum of eight through olhei programs. Information months per calendar year. Full Year-Part on the number of Texas communitiesDay programs serve childien up tp six hours forst least eight months of d, using HCDA Money for children's services has not be_en.onpiled. 29

28 calendar year.-Summer Heed Start. Parent and-Child Center operates only during the summer and may be either a futi day or a part day Program (Dallas) . operation. (See Directory section for Head Start Programs and Regions.) Program Organization Private, nonprofit organizations Authorization (usually Community Action,Agencies) Federal Head Start. Economic submit proposals to and are given grants Opportunity, and Community by Federal Region VI, Office of Human Partnership Act of 1974, Title V. Development, Department of Health. Number of Children (Five and Under) Education and Welfare, Dallas. The Served Last Year Texas Department of Community Maks, 20.985 in 1,099 classes in Fiscal Year Economic Opportunity Division, reviews 1974. (For Amber of children servedby applications and makes county, see chart in Appendix.) recommendations to the Governor. Funds Spent on Children (Five and Services Under) Last Year The purpose of this demonstration S18.697,587 program is to give early enrichment Admission Requirements experience to low-income families who At least 90 percent of the children t have at least one child below age 3. selected for Head Start must be children Experiences Stimulating emotional and from low-income families; and 10 intellectual growth are provided the percent of the total enrollment must be children, and al the same time parents handicipped children'. In general, the - are taught how to continue to give such program serves children 3-6 years of experience and relate it to the child's age. level of development. The parents work Contact Person togetherss a group to find solution5 to For more inforMation about Head Start mutual problems and so develop their grants, contact: own feelings of self-worth. Michael Allen, Director Authorization .. Economic Opportunity Division Federal Head Start; Economic Texas Department of Opportunity, and Community Partneiship Act of 1974. Community Affairs ' . P.O. Box 13166, Capitol Stationt Number of Children (Five and Under) Austin, Texas 78711 Served Last Year (512) 475-6601 100 (approximation) children in Dallas TEXAN 822-6601 Parent and Child Centir. Toff Free 1- 800- 292 -9642 Funds Spent on Child* (Five and Under) Last Year $185,211 (allocation only) L. Admission Requirements Children and parents selected or recruited.for the programs mist meet the low-income guidelinesvas defined by the federal Community Services Administration. Parents must have one child under age 3. Children in the program are usually 2 or 3 years of age.

Contact Person Michael Allen, Director Economic Opportunity Division Texas Depaitment of Community Affairs P.O. Box 13166, Capitol Station Austin, Texas 78711

(512) 475-6601 . TEX-AN 822-6601. Toll Free 1. 800-292-9642

7 T exalCommitsion on , 3 The Department of Public Welfary Human Services Delivery ,Services to Children and Youthand State Department of Health should identify pregnant mothers antOprovide' Division them with advice on proper nutrition and Program Organization health care, and medical treatmentr when necessary. Pcogrim Organitation The Texas Commission on Services to The Human Sertices Belivery Division 4. Screening (the minimum being a Children and,Youth wascreated by the provides a system for human services to Simple physical examination) should be Legislature in 1971 to serve as a lialsan be more uniformly delivered throughout available to all children in the first among the Legislature, state agencies months of life and periodically Texas, especially in rural areas. Two . involved in yodth services and the public majorprincipled underlying the System thereafter. The Title XIX screening on matters pertaining to young people. are active participation of local citizens should be supplemented by state. The commission consists of eighteen and cooperation of local governments. funding to insure that all children born persons, six of whom are under 21 years The Texas Department of Community to eligible families obtain the required old, appointed by theovemor. Ex- Affairs, Human Services Delivery screening earlyin life (first year) and officio members are the director's of periodically thereafter. Division, contracts with a social service eleven state agencies involved in youth 5. The Legislature should encourage agency in each of the Governor's servides. (See Directory section for twenty-four planning regions to and support the strengthening of career members.) determine needs and initiate services. education programs. . (See Directory section for contractors.) Services Further details may be obtained in the The Divisiorialso provides technical The Commission has four major Commission's 1974AnnualReport. cines: assistance. Funds Spent on Children (Five and 1. To assist in coordinating services Under) Last Year Services of state agencies and programs as they The Commission exists without The contracting agency identifies the relate to the well-being of children and social service needs Of the region by funding from-the Legislature. The Texas youth; gathering information from low-income Department of Community Affairs 2 To undertake a continuous study of persons, elected officials, the Council of provides staff and operating expenses, matters relating to the protection, Governments (COG) and Community growth and develOpment of children and Contact Persbn Action Agencies. The agency then youth, and ffom this study, indicate For more information about the Texas develops a regional human needs plan necessary' changes to the Legislature, Commission on Services to Children that suggests ways to improve delivery 3. To undertake any other activities and Yfuth. contact- of human services. The agency receives which will encourage other public and Robert C Lanier, Chairman a small seed' grant and matches it with private bodies throughout the state to of Commission funds from other sources, 10 generate , engage in children and youth Glenn E. McAlister, Chairnian of Staff additional operating money. At each development programs, . Cheryl Fuller; Liaison Member step, the agency works with federal, 4. To perform any duties requested by Texas Department of state and local agencies to coordinate ' the Governor or Legislature concerning Community Affairs the delivery of human servioes. past and future White House P 0. Box 13166, Capitol Station Types of services provided thrbugh Conferences on Children and Youth Austin, Texas 78711 Human ServiceDelivery agencies vary (held every ten years). (512) 475-6335 widely across the State. Services include In January 01 1975, the Commission TEX-AN 822-6335 health care, nutrition, child care, made the following recommepdations to Tpll Free 1.800-292-9642 employment, housing, drug abuse the 64th Legislature andtq the rehabilflation, transportation to and from Governor: service& job-related education, legal 1. Extension of health care and services, family counseling, and nutritional services to reach all poverty consumer counseling. People served are jeyel children and youth, including of all ageschildren, adolescents, .expectant mothers. - adults and the elderly. 2. To legislatively mandate and fund a

program for parent and parenting , education beginning in early adolescence.(age 12) to beyond the event of becoming a parent.

31 30 ...- In the area of child darelspecifically, Services Human Servipes Delivery money was Publications include P6vetty In Texas: used to start child care services in 1973, a comprehensive report on exas* Brownwood, Clarendon, Clarksvilli. and 2.5 n011on poor, over a third of whom are Dalhart: The Texas Department of , children; and the Ter:as Department of Community Affairs' Early Childhood Community AffairsArtda/Raport. Development Division provided The Department also ha:s WI audio- 'technical assistance.Human Service visual presentation, giving a brief Delivery funds also went to existing:. iniroductioh to the Department; anda child care centers in'Colorado City, magazine, issulidtvery two months, on Snyder, Breckenridge, Sweetwater, current activities. Belton, Temple, Pecos and Go lied. . The Drug Abuse Division has a Inaddition, theBrazos ValleyChild number of child-relited publications, DevelopmeniProgram received funds including "NeonatatNarcotic for a regiqnwide upgrading of services. Dependence," "The Effects of the Drugs Number of Children (Five and Unde;) of Abuse on Reproductive Processes," Served Last Year andi'Methadone and Pregnancy," all 300 (estimate) in child care. published by the National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Funds Spent on Children (Frye and Under) Last telr Information; and "Tips on Drug Abuse Prevention for the Parents o a Young Breakdown on children's services not Child," prepared by the Natibnai 'available. Program appropriation for Institute of Mental Health. 1974-75 hienni um totaled 51,500.000. Numerous other child:related Authorization materials are available through the Rider to H.B. 139. 63rd Texas Department's Early Childhood Legislature. Development Division (See front section Admission Requirements of this book). The agency is,selected by consensus- Admission Requirements of the region's elected officials, the ---Most publications are free upon Council of Governments and Community request. Abdio-visual presentations a Action Agencies. After the first year of must be scheduled in advance for funding, the agency must be able to find showing throughout the state. other sources of revenue for continuing r Contact Person *its human services programs. Alex Cuellar ContadtPerson Information Center Bettye A. Libby, Director Texas Department of Community Human Services Delivery Division Affairs Texas Department of .- P.O. Box 13166, Capitol Station, Coinmunity Affairs Austin, Texas 78711 P. O. Box 13166, Capitol Station (612)"475-2431 Austin, Texas 78714 TEX-AN 822-2431 (512) 475 -6923 Toll Free 1-800-292-9642 TEX-AN 822-6923 Toll Free 1- 800 - 292 -9642

.Public information

Program Organization Informational materials are available from the Texas Department of Community Affairs through the Information Center.

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4 Texas Department of Health Resources

Organized public health in Texas Board of Health Resources), created evolved over morthan a century, the Texas Health Facilities beginning with.the Quarantine Act of Commission to review applications T856. The Legislature gave the '- for hospital 'construction, and Governor authority.to appoint a State created the Timastdordinating Health Officer in 1879 and created Commission for State Health Welfare the State Board of Health in 1909. Services. The Board and the State Health The mission of the Texas Officer comprised the State Department of Health Resources is Department of Health, whichgrew to to protect and promote the health of encompass such areas asvital the people. Some programs such statistics, hospital licensing, as those dealing with environmental communicable diseases, chronic and consumer health problems diseases, dental health, mental are designed to benefit all segments health, and environmental pollution. of the community, regardless of. In 1975 the 64th Legislature socio - economic status. Other pasied the Teas Health Plannin programs such as inspection of and DeveloOent Act in respons to , If *using homes and training a federal law, aimed apetter ambulance personnel are#ailored coordinating a state's health - to meet the special needs of select resources. The-Act renamed the population groups. Department as the Texas Department Still other programs are designed of Health Resourcesnd divided the specificallyto improve the health State into twelve Health Service status of children. These programs Areas (HSAs) for the purpose of include maternal and child health, health planning. In spring 1976, each clinics; detection of phenyl- 'area will be assigned a Health ketonuria, a cause of mental System,Agency to conduct health . retardation; family,planning clinics; planning and resource development. services for crippled children and The Act also expanded the'old State children with-congenital heart Board of Health (now the Texas a' problems; preschool Soreening for, 34 33 .r

.vision and hear'. rig problems; Services Authorization nutrition services, immunization, The services of physicians, nurses and Federal Social Security Act, Title V, rheumatic fever prevention, and . 'Laboratory technicians are augmented .Sec. 502, Federal Public Health Service., public health educatiop. on the contemporary public heapleam Act. Title X, Sec. 1001. `by dentists, dental hygienists, -Also,-under a contract with the Number of Children (Five and Under) nutritionists, social workets, public State 9epartment of Public Welfare' Served Last Year health educators, community service the Texas Department affealth 71,711 children 0-21 years old during aides and outreach workers. The focus Resourcesicreens children for calendar year 1974. (For estimated of their services is on health number of children under 6 senred by medical and dental problems inthe maintenance and pre ionf county in Fiscal Year1675, see chartin Early and PeriodiOScreening, Ntaternity services inclu e. Appendix.) Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) antepartum (before birth) and Program. . postpartum (after birth) care but not Funds Spent oi3 Children (Five and The Department provides its obstetrical delivery; the taking of Under) Last Year services through a system of medical and obstetrical histories, $8,000,000 (Estimate for all maternal regional offices to cover all sections complete physical examinations, and child health programs for all ages; of the State. The Department also laboratory tests, group teaching and does not include money contribLited by cities and counties to local health works with sixty -nine local tyalth individual, anticipatory guidance departments). departments in Texas. All regarding pregnancy, childbirth, and infant care. The emphasis is on departmental programs are Admission Requirements maintenance of normal pregnancy supported by laboratory facilities. Eligibility requirements, such as leading to an uncomplicated delivery of income, age, marital status, consent of . Director of Health Resources, a full-terrri normal. healthy infant. spouse or parents, and residence, vary Periodic assessments assure early Fratis L. Duff, M.D. greatly from Idcality to locality because detection of possible compticatiOns witti Texas Dep;artment of each local health department sets its referral and follow-up as needed. The own policies; however, most services Health Resources focus is on the patient as a family are organized for health maintenance 1100 West Forty-ninth Street 'member. rather than treatment of illness and most Austin, Texas 7876 Family planning is the voluntary of the patients are unable to pay medical (512) 454:1781 Ext)211 regulation of fertility to assure that each expenses. TEX-AN 824-9'211 ,pregnancy occurs during optimal Contact Person conditions for mother and infant. C. R. Yerwo6d, M,D., Director Services include: history taking; clinical Division or Maternatand Child Health ' examination; laboratory tests; Texas Department of Health counseling with patients regarding Maternal Health, Resources various contraceptive methods, their Family Planning, 1100. West Forty-Ninth Street respeqtive reliability and Suitability for Austin, Texas 78756 and Child Health Servicei., individual needs; and provision of the (512) 454-3781 Ext. 39. contraceptive method of the patient's. TEX-AN 824-9396. choice. Related services include: fertility Program Organization studies; and referral for counseling.for Maternal health, family planning, and problempregnancy and other problems. child health services may be initiated by Child health services,extend from local health departments through their birth to 21 years of age, however, most - Special Maternal own resources or in consultation with patients served are under 6 years of age. and Child Health Projects the Texas Department of Health Services include: history; physical Resources through aprilication tots examinations; laboratory tests', Division of Maternal and Child Health. If immunizationsAlevelopmental Program Organization approved and upon the assessments, and screening for To qualify for federal funds under Title availability of funds, financial assistance tuberculosis, anemia, phenylkeronuria V of the Sopa! Security Act, every state to a local hearth department for these (PKU), sickle cell disease, lead _must have in operation at least one each services may take the form of equipment, poisoning, and impairments cif vision of Children and Youth Project, Maternity supplies. andfor salaries for clinic and hearing. Developmental and Infant Care Project, Dental Health persOnnel and community services assessments and screening are done Project, Intensive Care Nursery for High aides. Additional assistance is available both by nurses and physiiians. Parent Risk Infants, and Family Pranging through visual aids forpatient contacts are considered to be Project. These projects are determined education, staff training, technical opportunities for anticipattry guidance on the basis of need and 'serve a consultation, and'evaluation. In several regarding normal growth and specified area or census tract. All areas of the State which have no developmental needs in relation to child physicians or local health departments, cafe and family health practices.

comprehensive health services are , Referral and follow-up are used when provided by teams which travel on a " developmental delays, impairments, or ti circuit to regularly scheduled sites using diSease are detected. a clinic-equipped van.

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special projects are under the Contact Persons . jurisdiction of the Divisidit of Maternal C. R. Yenvood:M.D., Director and Child Health, Texas Department of Mary Ann Micka, M.D. Health Resciurcel. (reimbursement is Medical Consultant in through contract on the basis of children Child Health Services receiving services. . Division of Maternal and Child Health, ,Services Texas Department of Chikfr (rand Youth Projects: Provide . Health Resources medical and dental care, including - 1100 West Forty-Ninth Street screening, diagnosis, preventive Austin, Texas 78756 services, treatment, correction of (512) 4544781 Ext. 396 defects and aftercare (follow-up'care) TEX-AN 824-9396 for children and youth of law-income families. Sites: Driscoll Foundation Children's Hospital, Robstown: The University of Texas Health Center, Dallas; and The University of Women, Infants and Children Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. (WIC) Program Maternity and Infant,Care Projects: Provide diagnostic, preventive, prenatal, PrOgram Organization and postnatal health care and services the Special Supplemental Food .including labor, delivery and Program for Women, Infants and correction of defectsto women and 4 Children, commonly referred to as the infants of low-income families. Sites: WIC Program, is a new approach by the Denison Sherman' -Grayson County Federal Government through the U.S. iipalth Department; and Houston City Department of Agriculture for providing Health Department. food assistance to those categories of Intensive Infant Care Project: Provide peoplepregnant and lactating appropriate services for intensive care women, infants and young.children of infants of low-income/amities who have been found to be the most including surgical and specialized vulnerable to the effects of malnutrition. consultative services, and follow-up This program differs from other food care of the infant during thefirstyear of assistance programs in several distinct life. Site: Bexar County Hospital District, ways: (1) It is an adjunct to health Robert B. Green Hospital, San Antonio. services, and local agencies must Preschool Dental Project: Provide provide health services to participants appropriate screening, diagnosis, eligible for the program. (2) Participants preventiv,e services, treatment must be determined tiipie at nutritiohal correction of defects and aftercare to risk and in need of the supplemental preschool children of low-income, food. (3) Health data must be collected families. Site: Houston City Health to evaluate the effect of food 'Department. intervention upon populations which are

Authorization ._ at nutritional risk. (4)' The U.S. Federal-Social Security Act, Title V. Department of Agriculture or its Number of Children (Five and Under)* designee must evaluate WIC Program Served Last Year operations for administrative efficiency.., and effectiveness in accomplishing *35,983 children 0-21 years' old in all. Special Projects. program purposes. The Texas Department of Health )4 Admission Requirements Resources, Division of Maternal and Screening, diagnostic and preventive' Child Health, has responsibility for services are available to all children and administration of the program in Texas. youth within the area served by the The program is operated on the local projects. Treatment, correction of. level by agencies having contracts with defects and aftercare-are available to the Texas Department of Health, those children and youth who would not Resources for projects approved by the: otherwise receive such services. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Procedures for appiyrng for . participation in 1herWIC Program are set, out in the WIC Programllegulations. Local health departments and/or-other health agencies that meet thetligibility 36 '35 a requirements of the WIC Prbgram must be accomplished in depth because of file a written application with the Texas . lack of fundihg under the present Department of Health Resources, appropriation, the participants have Division of Maternal and Child Health. shown an increased awareness of food. giving the information required by the values. the need for reading labels, and 'Regulations. The Sitate agency transmits the effect of nutrients on the body. thapproved applications to the U.S. Health services have improved by Department of Agriculture. Food and increasedenrollment, particularly of Nutrition Service, for final approval. infants under 1 year of age and of In September 1975. twenty-four women in the first trimester of projects were operating in Austin.- pregnancy; and by a decrease in missed Texarkana. San Benito. Rayrhondville, appointments for clinic services. Crystal City., Dallas (2), Corpus Christi. Administrative efficiency hasbeen Rio Grande City. Bee4ille. Sherman. accomplished. The computer card Robstown, La Marque. Edinburg. system for apthorizing food has enabled Laredo. Lubbock. Conroe. Plainview, the Program to operate at a Cost less San Antonio. Houston, Waco, iuntsville, than that allowed by the Regulations and

Wichita Falls. and Ei"gle Pass. Five other to recover needed information.for . projects in FortWorth, Houston, analyses and reports. Levelland. El Paso, and Rosenbergh'ive Number of 'Children (Five and Under) been approved. Served LastYeA Three of the Texas projects were 62.000 women, infants and children among twenty in the nation seleCted by (Fiscal Year eQilirfg June 30. 1975) the U.S. Depariment of Agriculture in 1975 fordetailed medical evaluation. Funds Spent on Children (Five and The Deparjment of Nutrition. School of Under) Last Year Public Health. University of North S13,000.000 spent on women, infants Carolina. contracted withthe U.S. and children during'Fiscal Year ending -Department of Agriculture to do the June 30, 1975.

evaluation. The three Texas projects Authorization *. were: Cameron Countyliealth Federal Child Nutrition Act of 1966 as . Department, San Benito; Hidalgo amended, Sec'17. ' County Health Department, Edinburg; 'Admission Requirements and DriscolfFOunciation Eligible pregnant and lactating Children and Youth Project, bstown. R women, infants and children under age The other Texas projects were approved 5. Participants must be determined, by a for partial medical evaluation by the 1 competent health professional on the State agency. . staff of the local agency, to be at Services , nutritional risk and in need of the Food is made available to the supplemental food. Participants aust participants by a voucher system. The reside in the project area and be eligible local agency individually certifies for free or reduced medical care. persons participating in the program Contact Person and issues them vouchers for specified For more information about the WIC foods meeting the criteria set out in the Program, contact: WIC Program Regulations. The C. R. Yerwood, M.D.. Director participants exchange the vouchers for Division Of Maternal and Child Health food at participating grocers or milk Texas Department of C. companies, who in turn send them to the Health Resources TexasDepartment of Health Resources 1100 West Forty-Ninth Street for reimbursement. - Austin, Texas 78756 The WIC Program is operated as a part (512) 454-3781 Ext. 3964 of the on-going maternal and child TEX-AN824-9396 health services. Evaluation of the Taxes projects showed that the purpose of the program is being met. The, Health status of the participants has improved as determined by their growth and development, hemoglobin or hematocrit values, and general well being. While a nutrition education program'cou Id not 37

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Phenylketonuria Screening ot,Laboraterres for continue() testingas Contact Persdn long as the child is under dietary For more information about PKU treatment. Hospitals may perform their Program Organization . screening, contact: ,'-'\, Under State law, the Texas own testS. C. R. Yerwood, M.D., Director Depariment of Health Resources Services Division of Maternal and Child Health oversees all phenylkelonuria (PKU) Among the 200,000 or so babies born Texas Department of. screening and services. Phenylketonuria in Texas each year, a dozen or more Health Resources is a hereditary, metabolic defect that children may be born with PKU. 1100 West Forty-Nin,th Street causes children to be unable to use all Although rare (there are 118 known Austin, Texas 78756 the protein found in human milk or cow's phenylketonuncs living in the general (512) 454-3781 Ext 396 milk and other foods. Products which population of Texas and seventy in the TEX-AN 824-9396 ." may cause mental retardation and ofher state schools), Texas legislators felt that damage begin to build up in the PKU early detection of the condition was baby's body soon after the baby starts to important, and, in 1965, they' assed a takthnilk. If untreated, PKU usually . law requiring PKU screen' for all Nutrition Services ,%causes severe brain damage; however, if,..children born in the State. ff PKU- is found early enougtiarid The Texas,Department of Heal) Program Organization effectively treated, Mental retardation Resources provides free filter paper Statewide leadership in nutrition is can tie.prevented For this reason, early collection materials for PKU to all ,.rirovided by the Division of Maternal and diagnosis is essential. . physicians. hospitals, clinics and local Child Health. The Division's nutrition The law requires PKU tests on all health departments. Initial screening consultants are responsible for the children born in the State Testing for ana confirmatbry tests can be submitted overall Maternal and Child Health PKU requires only a few drops of blood , to the Department's Bureau of Program, the Special Maternal and from the newborn infant for laboratory Laboratories. The service is free. A Health Projects, the Women, Infants and testing. Because the coNidition dies not dietary supplement, limited in Children (WIC) Program and the manifest itself before a baby has phenylalanine,'provides the main source Phenylketonuria Program. received at least twenty-four hours of of protein for confirmed PKU patients. Locally, public health nutritionists and milk feedllig and because milk feeding The Maternal and Child Health Division home economists provide nutrition and usually does ndt begin until fwo"or more provides this supplement at no cost to a home economics services in some city days after birth, blood spot samples orr family, at the request of the attending and county healthtlepartments, in filter paper usually are collected by the physician. - special projects, and in WIC projects. hospital just before discharge of a Authorization newborn child. Blood spots can also be Services Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, Art. The Division of Maternal and Child. collected in doctors' offices or in well - 4447e child clinics when the infant iS Health recognizes the positive relation of sound nutrition to maternal health and dismissed from the hospital too early for Number of Children (Five and Under). a PKU test to betconsrdered valid. Served Last Year . to the growth, development and well , When results of the initial blood test Almost 174,000 PKU screening tests being of children..Nutrition services are lead a doctor to suspect PKU, additional were performed and reported last year an integral part of comprehensive health ! laboratory tests are performed to enable out of approximately 220,000 births. care in maternal and child health the physician either to confirm the Some of the remaining 46,000 babies programs Family planning, maternity condition or to r le out PKU. Original may have had their screening tests and child health clinics, and programs PKU screening tsts and confirmatory performed by private physicians. serving teenagers, particularly teenage expectant parents, are examples of specimens can submitted to the Funds Spent on Children (Five and places where nutrition services are Department's Bureau of Laboratories for Under) Last Year provided. Services are provided through results. If a positive diagnosis is made, $195,440 an individualized diet limiting the intake indiiidual and group counseling, and by Admission Requirements of phenylalanine, an amino acid which is working witp other agencies, By law all newborn children in the -, not metabolized normally by a PKU organizati6n, schools, task forces, State are to be tested for PKU. .A fee is child, is prescribed by the attending .committees, or individuals on services charged by some hospitalsand doctors, physician. Dietary prescription should affecting maternal and child health.' but all PKU testing and services npt be made until PKU has been Authorization performed by the Texas Department of confirmed., In order to see that Federal Social Security Act, Title V; Health Reiources are free. phenylalariine remaihs at a safe leve Federal Public Health Services Act, Title the blood stream, frequent-blood tests X. are necessary, and the diet is adjusted as indicated. Blood tests are taken about once a week with the newborn PKU baby; later, qs metabolic stability is maintained, the testing occur less . frequently: Hospitals and phy 'cians may send blood samples to th Bureau

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Contact Person Before the child 4s tested, the parent Speeph and Hearing Semices For more informatio about Nutrition fillsput information forms on family, Services, contact: health history with particular emphasis Mrs. Joan V. Whitson on vision and hearing. After screening, Program Organization Nutrition Consultant those children who need treatment are '-This program is administered by the Division of Maternal and Child Health referred to their family doctors. Thelocai DivisienorMaternal and Child Health. Texas Department of health department and the sch.01 nurse Texas Department of Health ReSdurces. Health Resources may also be involved in the foilow,up Preschool or school-aged children with 1100 West Forty-Ninth Street work. after treatment,theforms aresent a hearing loss' bfeuch magnitude as to warrant the use of amplification are Austin, Texas 78756 to the school as part of the-child's - (512) 454-3781 Ext. 396 permanent health records.- identified by lobel health departments, TEX-AN 824-9396 In a screening session, children are _school nurses, doctors, or speech and V given a 6rief orientation before they are_- hearing centers. Application is made to divided into groups for vision and the Division of Maternal and Child hearing tests. Health, Texas Department of Health, ' The Division of Maternal and Child Resources, which authorizes hearing Preschool Screening testing and other services, and provides for Vision and Hearing Health provides technical assistance, staff and volunteer training, Screening a hearing aid in cases where,test results 4 forms, testing equipment, and publicity so indicate, and in circumstances where Program Organization material for the program. State' the child's family cannot afford one. Administrators of community or assistance is made available to local Services county schools, Parent-Teacher communities for three years to [41 a Diagnostic evaluations of hearing lOss Associations, health departments, foundation for the program. After this (otologic, audiologic, and hearing aid community councils, church groups, or period, local communities have their evaluations), ear molds, and heariAg others interested in sponsoring a vision own responsibility for carrying out these aids are provided to hearing-impaired and hearing screening program for yearly projects, including the necessary children from low-income families. preschool children contact the Tyxas follow-up work. Psychological and other examinations Department of Health Resources', are given in cases in which it is Division Of Maternal and Child Health, Authprization Federal Social Security Act, Title V-A necessary to clarify diagncsticlindings. through,the local health department. As yet, the program cannot provide Health Resouroes personnel meet with, Admission Requirements. funds for auditory training, speech, members of the sponsoring group to The local organization or agency has reading, or other means of assess resources in the local community only to inform the Texas Department of communication training, parent and to plan the screening session. The Health Resources of its own willingness counseling or annual audiometric or local school district is always involved, to start sessions and take responsibility otologic re-checks, but may be able to in- and the session is publicized. Most for continuing the project-after the initial the future. school districts can provide alist of three-year period. There are no In addition, a pilot program in speech 'preschoolers, and, if they can, the admission requirements for the chil pathology, is contemplated for speech- children are sent information anapre- The children are aged3-6. 'defectivechildren referred by publicszi registration cards. An appointment is . health agencies. This program will Contact Person,... made for each childtto be screened. 'include orientation workshopslor public for'more infOrmationbbout the The session, which usually lasts one health nurses, diagnostic evaluations for Preschool Screening Program, contact: 'to three days, is held in a building children of low-income families, and' John W. Bradfield, central tope community a church development and monitoring of home Child Health Specialist educational building (during the school training and home theripyprogbms. Hearing and Vision Conservation year) or a school building (during the This seryloe is to be provided for - Program summer), Parents must accompany children under such circumstances that Division of Maternal and Child Health children to the screening because they cannot receive necessary treatment Texas Department of, parent education is one of the goals of of a high caliber from any other source. Health Resources, the program. Twenty;:fotir children per , hour are rotated through three testing 1100 West Forty-Ninth Street Authorization areas. Often as many as 400 children Austin, Texas 78756 Federal Sao Security Act, Title V. attend a preschool screening during a (512) 454-3781 Ext. 513 Number of Children (five and Under) three-day period. "- TEX-AN 824-9513 Seived Last Year Services 239 This prbgram has two objectives: (1') Funds Sp,enfon Children (give and early detection of visioh and hearing, Under),tait-Yesr problems in preschool children; and (2) ' $0,285.00 education of parents about the Admission Requirements advantages of preschool testing-for Preschool and school -aged children these problems. . must have a significant hearing loss in the better ear, and be from low4ncome

39 ..The term."significant," in this dental vans for dental examination, irr refers to a hearing loss of diagnosis, and corrective and preventive su t severity to present-atocial, treatment (all paid for through Title XIX). fitarhing,.*speech problemivhich Authorization could, according to the best Federal Social Security Act, Title XX professional judgment, be alleviated by and Title XIX. amplification: Number of Children (Five and Under) Contact Persons Served Last Year Pertnoie information about speech 34,779 screened in medical program and hearing services, contact: , 13,924 examined and treated in dental Fern Van Zandt, M.Ed_Consultant - program PautK. Strauss, M.A.X.C.C. .(For number of children screened by 's. Consulting Audiologist- county, see chart in Appendix.) Speech Pathologist Speech and Hearing Services Funds Spent on Children (Me arld ..Division of Maternal and Child Health Under) Last Year .-Texas Department of $932,772 for medical screening Health Resources (treatment paid through Medicaid) 1100 West Forty-Ninth Street $1,273,628 for dental examination and Austin, Texas 78756 treatment (512) 454-3781 Ext 363, 364 Admission Requirements and 365 Children must be eligible for Medicaid TEX-AN 824-9363 and under 21 years of age. Contact Persons Williarh S. Brumage, M.D., Director EPSDT Medical Program .Early and Periodic Screening, (512) 454-3781 Ext. 594 Diagnosis and Treatment: TEX-AN 824-9594 Medical and Dental Programs ,David Gray,D.D.S., Director EPSDT Dental Program (512) 454-3781 Ext. 587 Program Organization TEX-AN 824-9587 14the program is administered through Texas Department of e State Department of Public Welfare Health Resources which, in turn, subcontracts, with the . 1100 West Forty-Niriih Street Texas Department of Health Resources Austin, Texas 78756 to perfOrrh theservice.s. Department of *Public Welfare workers inform Medicaid and welfare redo:wits of,edical and : dental services aiallabtOlhem under -8 Title XIX of the Federal tal Security Dental Education Program Act. Local public lital mos and .. State Department of Health Resdurcea, Program Organization mobile teams perform the screening The program is administered lathe . services. Private physicians and dpntists Bureau of Dental Health, Texas perform the diagnosis and treaimnt.. Department of Health ResoUrces. : r Services Services In the medical program,'Children The Bureau of Dental Health proVides .receive a gross screening which a comprehensive infOrmatign service on 'includes recording a health and dental health to children, parents and developmental history; a complete educators throudhout the state. Dental physical examination; vision and education materials are developed and hearing testing; plustests for anemia providedlor welt-child conferences, (regular and sickle cell), tuberculosis, preschool screening programs and lead poisoning, andother conditions.* Childrenrequirihg additional medical sonsultation will be referred to orivate Physician for diagnosis and treatment (paid for through:Title XIX). Iri the dental prograni, children are referred to private dentists and Texas .Department of Health Resources mobile

40 39 . . -. school dental health prbgrams. Other Funds Spent on Children (Five and interested individuals, such as teachers, iinder) Last Year , nurses andadrninistratoripf health $100,000 (estimate) fotpretschool and t programs, may use these Materials._ school-iged children. e AUthorization-, . Contact Person -Vernoris Texas Civil,Statutes; Art. For more informatibn dental 4. 4418-caje*ralSocial Security Act, health programs, con Title V. R Carlos Lozano, IlD.S.4-; Director . Admission Requirements Bureau of Dental Ylealth All literature, rilms and eqUipment may Teias Departmt of be borroweit freeof charge by $.'Health Reso ces ' responsii?le groups or individuals. ;0- -1100 West Fo-Ninth street Austin, Texas 78756 . -- ,(512) 464-3781 Ext. 351 824:9351 . Dental Care for,Children of Low-Income Families .. 1 Program Organization Dental Care Services, . In specialized instances. the Bureau to Children di. of Dental-Pe-11th, Texas Department of Health Resources, provides direct' Program Orga nization ,supportfor.dental care to children from In September 1975, the Bureau of, -" low- income familids. In communitiesI Dentali-lealthTexas Department ofI Ala participate in the Maternal, FamilyHealth Resources, began ne ciental Planning and WellChild CoriferencS program for a target poPplation of Clinic prograrti but have,nopublichealth 710,000 indigenhildren not presently departmexitto sOorisoislental care served by any other rodram. services, limited financial aid can The program -uses he existing provided to reimbur§e priv,ate d ,administrative servic of the public for part of the cost of providing den health regions and o ploys professional care to childrentrom low-income service Rerscinnel an supporting staff . families. tberecor4keeping, ommnications and -Three Texas cities --. El Paso, Dallas coordination between recipients and and Corpus Christi haVe full-time prdviders. ;1 clinics withdentistapard by the-state. In . Services are provided in existing ;other with full-tithe'clinics public healthafacilities:where such Laredo, Waco, Houston, Fott Worth, serVices have been,r.equested by local Dallas, AuStin'and Sin Antonio health 'departments; and witli tile .dentists are paid with city or county cooperation of local dental societies. funds. Services are also.provided by at least Services two mobile dental unit %in cotint(es ' General dental care and services for without a dentist'. I ri some areas, to the Children of loW-incothe families,-and extent pent-lifted by limited funds, care,is dental education se to the Ot?. provided in'th4private offices of. dentists. 1 Authorization s . ;,.y,, yer,non's Texas Civil §tatutes, Art. SerVites '4418-D; Federal Social, Security Act, The program provides payment of - "'Title V; House,Bill 2164; 64th . . comprehensive dental services for Legislature, 1975?- z indigent children in fiyphighpriority

. AdmfitionRoquiretrien4 -areas: ev . . bptermined lobally, tot:usually 04- 1)' border.-1: using a presChool and schciolsted. children dental van and fixed clinics; , must meet fedpal poverty gylcIplines. 2) Houston-Gulf Coast area Using available dentaj man-pOweron a 7. fee- for-Service basis' 3) East Texas and Dallas -Fort Worth ; Metroplex using available dental 4 .:4"manPower on a fee-for-service ... basis: S , " . t. 41 j. t , '4: 0 0 1

4) Sail Antonio area j-- Using surveys are made to,determine Number of Child Five andynder) available dental manpower on a cdmpliance. and loci! healtht Served ar fee-for-service basis departments and clinics are encouragedIFollow-up was completed on141:925 5) West Texas using a dental yap, to take steps to imeounize the children in childreribbom in 1970, and follow-up transportation of patients to clinics, day care centers. continued on 581,534 children born . and fixed clinics. The Immunization Division assists 1971-1974. (For estimated coun evels Authorization - another agency of the Department of of immunization among children u der House Bill 2164, 64th Legislature. 1975 Health Resources in insuring that 6, see chart in Appendix.) unimmunized children, detected Funds Spent on Children (Five and through the Early and Periodic Funds Spent on Children (Five and - J.Jader) Last-Year Under) Last Year Screening. Diagnosis, and Treatment .$2.000.000 for cp/dren 0-18 year (Title XIX)Program. receive their $896,241 (excludes budget for school- durin41976-77 biennium. immunizations. aged children) Admission RequitpMeili3 flew emphasis was given in 1975 in Admission Requireinents indigent children 0-18 years ofage. the routine investigation of ail reported The Infant Immunization Program . not pwently, served by any other cases of measles, rubella, and petussis reaches all children born in Texas, program. ih Texas. exclusive of Bexdr County andtheCity Related Program: Infa.nt Immunization oftiouston. Most locarhealth Su ryei I la nce departments have no restrictions for giving immunizations to childre(whose One important function of the Division ImmunizationProgram is the Infant Immunization Surveillance families requestthem. Program. From birth certacate Contact Person Program qrganization, information provided byTife Bureau of . For more information about the The program is administe?ed by the Vital Stalistics, inquiry cards are mailecL Immunization Program contact. ImMtinization Division of the Bureau of to -parents of newborn children. Euel A$ Smith. State Supervisor Communicable Okease Services. Texas throughout Texas (except Bexar County Immunization Division Departmeht of Health Resources .% and the City of Hoiliton, which have Bureau of Communicable health ptogram specialist is located in, their own surveillance programs). Disease Services each of the ten public health regions: ,The cards serve three purposes: 1) to Texas Department-of immunization aides are employed. remind parents about the,need for Health Resources especially in counties where disease immunizations, 2) to survey the (evel of 1100 West Forty-Ninth Street risk is high, to telephone or visit homes immunity among infants, and 3) td Austin, Texas 78756 where childrec may not have been identify unimmunized/preschool (512) 454,3781 Ext. 387. immunized. children. If cards are not returned or if TEX-AN 824-9387 Services immunizations have not been given. .. In an effort to prevent the incidence ,local health departments or and spread of polio, diphtheria, immunization aides makes follow-up Child-Centered Tuberculosis pertussis, tetanus, measles, and rubella, inquiry and imany cases arrange for the program supplies vaccines:to local immunizations to be given. This Control Program health departments and health officers. reminder-inquiry process occurs twice: Program Organization In 169 counties which have no health when the child is 3 months old and again Regional offices of the Texas department, the state office staffs (or at 14 months old. Parents are Department of Health Resources supports volunteer's who staff) encouraged to take their children to a immunization clinics. family physician or to a local public - cooctuciscreening programs to identify, Oildren and other persons at high risk The Division servers as an information health clinic for immunizations. center for all matters related to of becoming infected with tubercule Authorization bacillus or deve)oping tuberculosis. # immunization, such as the most up-to- .Federal Public Health.Service Act, Screening method is the TB skin test. date recommencfations from the Sec. 314 (e) and 317; Texas Education ' State legislation recommends that American Academy of Pediatrics and the Code. Sec. 2.09; Vernon's Texai Civil school children, grades '1 and 7, and U.S. Public Health Service for medical Statutes, Art. 695c: Senate Bill 705 and administration of vaccines, transfer students be examined for House Bill 53. 64th Legislature. 1975; tuberculosis. Schitol districts which The Division works with the Texas° Attotney General's Opinion H-565, 1975. ,Education Agency in surveying public. want to participate in the tuberculosis sch9ols to asceftain immunity of school- education and examination program apply toe local health' department, aged ch,ilitm thereby implementing the 1971 stelaw requiring full which then notifies a regional office. Often preschool children aritscreened immunizatiohof altchildreh entering ' in school programs. Texas schools. When infeCteil children are identified. In conjunction with the State the Department's Bureethof Department of Public Welfare, Tuberculosis Services investigates to immunization requirements are met for childrenenrolled in day care centers and child-oaring institutions, Periodic 42 41 assure that those ehildrer. are examined Funds Spent on Children (Five and crutches, special medication, and andtreated periodically by either a Under) Last Year reIatedservices, such as physical private physician br chest clinic Expenditures for the Tuberculosis therapy and transportation to and from . treatment centers,are also covered by SIVNIPes Control Program for the year ending One of isle major goals of me Program August 31, 1975 totaled approximately this program. At present the program is to prevent the infection and $16.000,000. however. the amount of has no funding for research or eveiopment ottuberculbsis through a these funds expended for specific age educational services for child-en during child-centered program of u:lentific-ation, groups isnot available. treatment and convalescence.

chemoprophylaxis apd long-term . Admission Requirements' Authorization supervision. The Bureau works closely Parental consent isTequirecl. Free Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, Art. with schools, local health departinents treatment of a child with tuberculosis is 4419C. . and voluntary organizations to that end provided if parents cannot pay. Number of Children (Five and Under) For school districts. the appropriate Contact Person Served Last Year regional office of the Texas Department. For more information on the 3.779 through age four. There was no of Health Resources proVides literature. Tuberculosis Program. contact: breakdown for five-year-olds but the -.technical advice arid assistance, number is estimated al 693. which would Robert B. Skinner. M.D., antigen, the loan of testing supplies and bring the total to roughly 4,472. (For the equipment. and. on occasion. the loan of Deputy Director . number ofchildren served by county. Preventable Diseases staff personnel. Follow-up-examinations see chart in Appendix) and treatment normally are conducted Texas Department .of by individual physicians or local health Health Resources Funds Spent on bhildren (Five and 1100 West Forty -Ninth Street Under) Last Year departments. however, where neither A , exists or where facilities are inadequate. Austin. Texas 78.756 $3,233.905.00 e this servicis performed by the regional (512) 454-3781 Ext 376 Admission Requirements . office. TEX-AN 824 -9376 The county judge of the county in If children are identified as.harboring which the parents it4f the crippled child 'the tuberculosis organism without beifig, reside Must certify that the parents infectious, they may receive cannot finanCp'the needed care and chemotherapy or-otherbreventive Ciippled Children's treatment. Children with the following treatment. If tuberculosis is indeed Services Programs conditions can be accepted for attacRing the lungs, children may be treatment under the prograuxongenital sent to one of three State chest hospitals Program Organiiation ' heart chseases,cystic fibrosis, brachial (Tyler. Harlingen. or San Antonio) or tA Assistance and treatment may be birth palsy, spina bifida, absence of hospital w4h a tuberculosis ward. If the obtained by applying to the Crippled bone, amputations, cerebral palsy, family of a child cannot afford treatment. Children's Services Prbgram. Texas muscular dystrophy, cleft lip or cleft the Bureau of Tuberculosis Services nartment otHealth Resources. When palate, web fingers, extra fingers.

provides it. the application is approved, parents are _ poliomyelitis, osteomyelitis, arthritis. The Bureau works with local health free to choose doctors from an approved tuberculosis of the bone or joint, severe departments in viiting a child's family to list of 300 physicians who have met burns, complicated fractures, Sarcoma, trace the possible source of infection. if certain standards. The choice of a progressive scoliosis (curvature of tiles family, friends or associates are hospital is also at the disdretion of the torticollis (wryneck), dislocation identified as being infected, they are administering physician and the parents of hip, clubfeet, bowlegs, kno6k-knees, treated, too. of the Child, if the facility has been flatfeet,tand certain other crippling o Authorization approved by thd'Texas Board of Health 'conditions. Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, Art. Resources. . AssiStance is restricted tochilEfren 4477-12 Services -unclar6earsof age who meet ' Treatment and aid provided by the eligibilitiTTequirementS.. Number of Children (Five and Under) Crippled Children's Services prograrA Ccintactlierson fit Served Last Year . range from rhedical'and surgical care to No breakdown is available on those For additional infOrm'ation concerning hospitalization. Physical aids such as tuberculin tested for infection, but 156 the Crippled Children's Prograirf, wheelchairs, bra,ces, artificial limbs and- chffdren,,ages medically diagnosed-- contact: as having tuberculosis, were bleated James P. Rambin, Assistant Director under this program. The estimated Crippled Children's Services Program number of 5-year-olds would bring the Texas Department of number to slightly over 171. Health Resources Approxidately 2,610 other children, age 1100 West Forty-Ninth Street 5 and under, were treated with' Austin, Texas 78756 chemoprophylexis. (For number of (512) 454-3781 Ext. 367 children served by county, see chart in TEX-AN-824-9367 Appendix.)

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ti Rheumatic-FevertioTever Prophylaxis Foemore Information on the Rheumatic Fever Prophylaxis Program, PrograraOrganization, conte.ct Under State law, the Texas Kovrard E. Smith, Director Department of Health"Resources Chronic Disease Division administers programswhich reduce the Texas Department of morbid effects ofcancer and Health Resources '- cardiovascular disease. Rheumatic 1100 West Forty-Ninth Street Fever Prophylaxis (prevention) is such a Austin, Texal 78756 pfogram. .(512) 454-331.xt. 348 Rheumatic fever is a recurrent TEX-AN 824 -9348 disease. and its attacks frequently can 19,l5e prevented. A.streptococcal infection 2precedes both initiatand recurrent Kidney Health Care Program -ettacks. A pfivate physician who iiiscovers datreptococcal infection in a Program Organization chili' with:a pasthistory of rheumatic . . This program is administeted by ttie fever, can applyto the local health Chronic Disease Division. Texas department or, if there is none. to'the Department of Health Resources. Texas Department of Health Resources.. Application to the Kidney Health Care Drugs will be supplied to ward off further Prog rash is made through one of the . attacks of the disease. forty-four Medicare-approved Chronic

_ Services Renal Disease facilities located in the Since 1956, this program has provided State. The pro g rap provides financial *No :penicillin to'physicians for those assistance for the care and treatment of patients who have a historcotrheumatic end-stage renal disease in children and fever but who cannot afford the adults legally residing in Texat. End- prolonged expense Of continued stage renal disease is defined as that . medication. The program provides. state of renal impairment which is penicillin in the oral and injectable virtually always irreversible and forms. Presently 2.290 patients are permanent. and requires dialysis or receiving this service. kidney transplantation to ameliorate Children in need-of corrective heart uremic symptoms and maintain life. surgery as a result of rheumatic fever. Services can get assistance through the Crippled, Financial assistance through the .41 Children's Programs. Kidney Health Care Program is available Authorization for certain medical costs flom the 'Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, Art. beginning of an applicants regular 4418D .course of dialysis until his Medicare Chronic Renal Disease coverage Number of dhildtren.(Five and Under) becomes-effective, usually a 90-day Served Lastear period. Assistance with additional Thirty-eightwere furr5ished with medical expenSes beyond this 90-day preventive medication. (Rh eumatic.fever period may be proirided depending on tisu ally strikes first between the ages the avallability of State funds. Certain 5-15.) long-term benefits are available if the Funds Spent on Children (Five and patient has applied for and?Aen denied

Under) Last Year Medicare Chronic Rehal Disease . S1,064.00 ' coverage. There' is no means testfor Admission Requirements eligibility to receive benefits; however, The child's family must be unable to thepatient or those responsible for the pay medical bilis. The family physician tient'sdebts may be required to verifies the family's inability to pay, in burse the program.up to 5 percent of the request to the local health tir adjusted gross income for the year department. in which benefits were received. . Authorization The Texas Kidney Health Care Act. Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, Article 4477-20.

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., Number of-Children (Five and Under) immunization. A film catalog and a 'Served Last Year , listing of literature titles are available on 2 (Although end-stage retrial written request, free of charge. Special disease in the very young is rare, the assistance is available free of charge, to number of children under age 6 who communities planning health fairs of quality for this program is even smaller. public awareness campaigns., Certain criteria. such as physical size Authorization and weight as well as what other Authorized undpr the Texas medical compticatiobs are present, all Department of Health Resources broad have a bearing on whether the child will responsibilities to protect and promote be able to qualify for dialysis or a kidneypublic health. transplant.) Admis-skiReqiiirernents Funds Spent on Children (Five and Any city 6r county official or _ Under) Last Year responsible agent of a public or private 5'412728 school or childcare center: and all Admission Requirements I service clubs; Parent-Teacher A medical diagnosis of end-stage Associations, community action renal disease is required. organizations. business or fraternal .COntact Person groups dedicated to the promotion of Gerald W. Gillespie. Director child health and divelopment are eligible for service wittun the limits Kidney Health Care Program. Texas Deparibient of upposesEbyavailable inventories and the Health Resources Department's ability to provide services and material. 1100 West Forty-Ninth Street AUStirl Texas 78756 Contact Person (512) 454-3781 Ext. 577 For further information about health TEX-AN 824-9577 education, contact: Grant H. Burton, Director Public Health Edubation Division Texas Department of Health Edubation Health Resource& 1100'West Fogy-Ninth Street Program Organization Austin, Texas 78756 Inventories of health education films (512) 454-3781 Ext. 202 and literature are maintained by.a TEX-AN 824-9292 subdivision of the Divisiormili.eloblid Health Education and are available on request to interested persons and groups. Literature is free, and maybe obtained in writing or by visiting'the Department in person. Borrowers of films must pay return postage. - Services A statewide Iralth education service is provided through the distribution of factual. up-to -date printed materials and 16mm Mills on a wide variety of Subjects relevant to child health and

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The Texas Department of Mental Trustees. They receive funds from a Health and Mental Retardation was variety of sources, including_ state created by the Mental Health and grants-in-aid. Mental Retardatiop Act of 1965, The'Department adTinisters some House Bill 3 of the 59th Legislature, federal funds, including the federal to consolidate all state mental health Developmental Disabilities Act and mental retardation services' giahts program for services to under one agency. Previously, these Texas' mentally retarded, cerebral (1' services were the respOnsibility of palsied and epileptic citizens. the State's health department. Mahy The Department works closely of these services affect young 'with the Texas Education Agency in children. providing special education, adult The agency is charged with baSic education and vocational conserving and restoring the mental training in mental health facilities. health of all the State's citizens and The Department also cooperates vith helping the mentally r tarded with the Texas Rehabilitation develop whatever potentithey Commission and the Commission for have, thus enabling-theto live lives the Blind. A cooperative program as near normal as possible. The with the Department of Public agency administers twelve state Wel*e offers post-hospital and schools, eight state hospitals, three s6Vool rhediCal services to eligible human developrrient centers, a recipients. The Department research center, and other facilities. cooperates with the Texas Howet;er, the State law also Department of Health Resources ih requires that the Department immunization services and receives encourage local agencies and consultation in sudmattert a§ private organizationd to assume a sanitationbnd nutrition. share of responsibility for the Commissioner of Mental Health administration of mental health and and Mental Retardatiori: mental retardation services. Thus, the Department has helped create 'Kennath D. Gayer, M.D. twenty-seven community mental as Department of Mental health and mental retardation ealth and Mental Retardation ceAters around the State. These 909 West-Forty-Fifth Street , centers are autonomous units, Austin, Texas 78756 governed IV lcial Boards of (512) 459-7315 TEX-AN824-4201 48 47 Contact Pensiin Authorization Mental Health Services* ir 1 , For more information about mental Mental Health and Mental Retardation Program Organization . health services, contact: Act of 1965, Vernon's Texas Civil The Texas Department of Mental Harold C. Domres, Jr., M.D. Statutes, Arts. 5547-201 to 5547-204. Health and Mental Retardation Deputy Commissioner for Number of Children (Five and Under) Mental Health Serviced administers eight state hospitals. These Served Last Year Texas Department of Mental Health are located in Austin, Big Spring, 255 in state schools; 615 in school and Mental Retardation Kerrville, Rusk, San Antonio, Terrell, outreach programs. (For number of Box 12668, Capitol Station Wichita Falls, and Vernon. (See children served by county, see chart in Austin, Texas 78711 .Directoryseption.) . Appendix.) (512) 453-3659 Services TEX-AN 824-4209 Admission Requirements The state hospitals operate on a Admission to the state schools is twenty-four hour basis to provide made by direct application to the inpatient and outpatient care and Mental Retardation Services individual school or center. In all cases, . treatment to mentally ill and emotionally a child must be diagnosed as mentally disturbed persons. At the present time Program Organization retarded before admission. Children the state hospitals are developing The Department of Mental Health and under 6 must be non- ambulatory. treatment programs for children and Mental Retardation administers twelve Contact Person adolescents. but they are no programs state schools for the mentally retarded. For more information about services exclusively for chiten below 6 years of `age. They are: the Abilene State School, the for the mentally retarded, contact! Mahn State School, The Brenham State James Craft, Ed.D. Related Programs School, the Corpus Christi State School, Deputy Commissioner for Outreach, Centers. All of the state the Denton State School, the Fort Worth Mental Retardation Services hospitals now have outreach centers State School, the Lubbocic State School, Texas Department of Mental Health (seventy-three total) ih communities in the Lufkin State School, the Mexia State and Mental Retardation areas surroundino the hospital. The School, the Richmond State School, P.O. Box 12668, Capitol Station trealment of mental illness and mental the Travis State School, and the San Austin, Texas 78711 problems is provided on an outpatient Angelo Center. (See Directory section.) (512) 454-6071 basis. Preschool children are served. In- TEX-AN 824-4224 Services. many of the clinics considerable emphasis has been placed on mental State schools operate on a twenty-four hour baps to provide treatment and care health education, and mental illness and mental retardation prevention. (See- for mentally retarded persons of all ages. Community-Services ThisinclUrles some children under 6, but Directory section for locations of Program Organization "fiospital outreach centers.) at the present there is no program exclusively for them inside the schools. Texas has twenty-seven community Authorization mental health.and mental retardation Related Programs Mental Health and Mental Retardation centers administered by local boards of Outreach programs: Most schools and Act of 1965, Vernon's Texas Civil . trustees appointed by counties, cities, centers have outreach programs for Statutes, Arts. 5547-201 to 5547-204. hospital or school districts, or a their surrounding rural areas, programs combination of theseoovemments. The Nu mberof phildren (Five and Under) which try to meet the needs of the centers receive state grants-in-aid from Served -Last Year retarded living at homes For younger the Texas Departmentof Mental Health 14 in hospitals;. 350 in hospital children, state scho6I outreach provides and Mental Retardation and are also outreach centers. (For number of both training and evaluation for the supported by fedora) grants,-other state children served bycounty, see chart in severely retarded and, in some and locarfunds, and by fees for services * Appendix.) instances, trainingend evaluation for according to client ability to pay. those who may have only small difficulty Admission Requirements A center is not a building, but art array upon entering public school. The State residency is required but out-of- of services. Each community center outreach operation also frequently state persons can be admitted through develops its own program in response to involves day care for retarded-ohildren reception of a transfer from their state of needsof local citizens, with needs of under 6. In all outreach programs local residency. children and their families a high. schools hire, train and supervise local priority. Center services arelocated in personnel to serve as teachers and ti neighborhbods accessible to those in aides. School staff is often available as need of help, as much as possible, and resource personnel for consultation, are being continuously expended as ,' evaluation and supervision. (See increased funding becomes available. Directory section.) (See Directly section for locations of .community centers.) 49,

48 Services Relited Prog rams: tirrenty-seven community centers 4tete Centers for Human Development offer diagnostic and evaluation services. Three state centerkfot- human -liery effort is made to give appropriate development in Amarillo, Beaumont Care and treatment in the community; and El Pasowere created as butlf This fails, centers become the point demonstration centers for developing Of entry into state schools and state community programs for the mentally, hospitals. The following-is a sampling of retarded. Daycare, education, family direst and related services foryoung counseling, infant-parent programs, and children and their families which may be other training are.some of the services found in community centers: . . available for children. The Beaumont Infant assessment and parent training and El Paso centers now also have a prograins for children ages 0-3, residential program, on a short term including training in the home. basis, for both mentally retarded and Preschool training and education for mentally ill persons, and the Amarillo the mentally retarded and emotionally center has residential services for the

disturbed, as well as for the. retarded, for respite care and home visits disadvantaged and developmentally from a state school. SeNices are disabled coordinated with and complement those Parent and marital counseling. - of community centers in the three Greater West Texas MHMR Center has locations. Outreach centers serve

a group program for parents of . regions surrounding the three Human children under age 5 to encourage Development Centers. (See Directory development of parent-child section for locations of outreach 'communication services.) Childabuse emergency services 24-hour crisis care Related Program: Residential services for the mentally Rip Grande State MHMR Center retarded, beginning at age 3, with - soine beds reserved for respite-care Other mental health and mental Hospitalization for treatment of severe retardation services are provided in the 11171a or profound emotional problems. community by the Texas Department of Bexar and Heart of Texas Mental Health and Mental Retardation MHMR Centers have affiliates through the Rio Grande State MHMR providing specialized services for Cent& atHarlingen and its two centers seriously disturbed children. Austin- at Laredo and Kingsville. They offer Travis County and Centralioounties emergency services for children and a MHMR Centers provide treatment for variefy of day care, training and special children beginning at age 5 in the education services, in addition to Children's Psychiatric Unit of Austin diagnosis and evaluation services and State Hospital. family counseling. A childr.dn's program Genetidcounseling. East Texas in Laredo offers outpatient medical MHMR Centerhas the Genetic counseling services and consultation Screening and Counseling Clinic, in and education services to community , cooperation,with a Denton State ,agencies and caretakers of children.

School program. , Outreach clinics from Laredo and Austin-Travis County Center's Big Kingsville serve oithercountiesin the Buddy prograrri provides one-to-one Lower Valley not being served by the friendship to children who are Tropical Texas Center for MHMR. (See mentally retarded, functionally - Directory section for locations of retarded, developmentally disabled, or outreach tervices from Rio Grande emotionally.disturbed. MHMR-Center.) community MHMR centers have consultation services for community. -agencies, schools, and individuals serving children.

5 0 49 Authorization 3) Minimal brain damage or injury Mental Health and Mental Retardation which may include specific Act of 1965. Vernon's Texas Civil learning disabilities, fine motor , Statutes,. Arts. 5547-201 to 5547-204. incoordination, hyperactivity, Number of Children (Five and Under) impulsivity, short attention span, Served Last Year ,emotional instability, distractibility 2,585 in community centers; 212 in 4) Multiple handicaps human development centers. (Fbr 5) Convulsive disorder number of children served by county, 6) Secondary social, behavioral or see chart in Appendix.) adjustmentairoblems. The staff works with the family to find Admission Regyirements , 'ways to overcome the problem through In most cases childrectere local such methods astberapy, special residents. Fees are charged off a sliding classes, and schools. The program scale. provides developmental counseling, Contact Person medication when indicated, follow-up or more information about and reevaluation. commity services, contact: The Developmental Services Sectionl- Deputy Commissioner for also has outreach prograMs, which Community Services provide services through various Texas Department of Mental Health locations of the Harris County Center for -and Mental Retardation the Retarded and the Fort Bend County Box 12668, Capitol Station early childhood development program Austin, Texas 18711 (see "Community Demonstration (512) 454-3761 Projects," in the Texas Department of TEX-AN 824-4321 CommunityAffairs'-Earlythildhood Development Division section.) The Therapeutic Nursery offers a daily Texas Research Institute play group as well as evaluation and of Mental Sciences consultation services. For parents ofihe nursery children, a variety of therapeUtio Program Organization programs are offered {individual, family, The Texas Research Indtitute of group, educational or counseling). The Mental Sciences (TRIMS) is the primary emphasis, as in all TRIMS services for research arm of the Texas Department of children, is the family. Research in the

Mental Health and Mental Retardation. Nursery centers around creative . Programs include research, training and dramatics to increase communication patient care designed to discover more skills in children; about causes and prevention of mental Aside from the Nursery and illness, improvtinethods of treatment, Developmental Services, the Institute and train-mental health workers. has academic affiliations with Houston area medical schools and universities. Services These enable the Institute to offer Services for children under 6 are fellowships and training programs for a provided mostly by two sections: the Developmental Seivices Section (an variety of professionals in the mental interdisciplinary child development health field, including professionals who work with children under 6. section) and the Therapeutic Nuisery, Child Psychiatric section. Authorization Children Served in the Developmental Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services Section are those whois Act of 1965; Vernon's Texas Civil families or referral sources suspect Statutes, Arts. 5547-201 to 5547-204. problems, the most common being: Number of Children (Five and Under) 1) Developmental delays, except for Served Last Year isolated psychosocial delay° 150 (Estimated) 2) Mental retardation Funds Spent on Children (Five and Under) Last Year $50,U00 (Estimated)

- 51 50 Admission Requirements Children ar.e 0 to 18 years old in the Development Services Section and 0 to 6 in the Nursery. Contact Person Joseph C. Schoolar, M.D., Ph.D.. Director Kay Lewis, M.D., Chief Developmental Services Section' Mae McMillan, M.D., Chief Therapeutic Nursery Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences 1300 Moursund Avenue Texas Medical Center Houston, Texas 77025 (713) 522-2871 TEX-AN 859-9222

Public Education and Information

Program Organization Printed material on mental health and mental retardation is available to the public free upon request. Services Information on a variety of mental health and retardation subjects is available"through the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. Specific pamphlets containing information on younger children would include "Mental Retardation... What is That?':, "About Mental Health,' "Ready Reference, Terminology:- a short lexicon of mental health and mental retardation terms, and several training pamphlets for mentally retarded children: "Feeding," "Toilet Training," and "Recreation." Authorization

Authorized under the Texas fr Department of Mental Health and Mental C. RetardatiOn's broad responsibilities to

promote mental health and prevent fr mental retardation.

'Contact Person For more information about mental health Or mentalretardation literature, contact: Ha 'rley Pershing Public Information Officer Norma Torkelson, Librarian Tbxai Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Box 12668, Capitol Station Austin, Texas 78711 (512) 454-3761 Ext. 277 :52 TEX-AN 824-4277 II

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The State Department of Public became lawin 1975. Title XX is a which covers all persons receiving Welfftre, created by the Legislature bloc grant of federal funds to states AFDC or Supplemental Security

in 1939, administers programs that to provide for a program of social Income (SSI). Medicaid pays . offer financial assistance, social services. It was an important reform physician's fees, hospital expenses, services (such as day Care, family because it transferred theauthority some dental care for children, plannin6,.counseling), and.medical for designing arid carrying out social prescription drugs, and certain other aid to eligible loW-income families ihservice projrarnifrorp the Federal. related expenses. Preventing Texas The Department also Government to the states. The State children's illnesses is the' goal of the administer child care licensing Department of Public Welfare, Department's Early and Periodic laws, revised tiy the Legislature in designated as the'state agency to Str'eening, Diagnosis and Treatment 1975. As mandated by the Texas deliver Title XX services, developed (EPSDT) Program. EPSDT serv)_cek Family Code, the Department is the Title XX Comprehensive Annual art carried out by the Texas responsible for the protection of all Services Program Plan for Fiscal Department: of Health Resources. children threatened or victimized by Year 1975-76, in which the Child abuse is a problem prevalent

abuse. . , Department-described the services in all segments of societyKhe A significant program for needy to be provided and the people Department, responding to the 'children is Aid to Families with served. In September, 1975, after a mandate of the 63rd Legislature, Dependent Children (AFDC), which 45-day period for public comment, promotes a,statewide child abuse provides a basic income for children the Governor submitted the plan to public education campaign, with a disabled or absent parent. the Depa ant of Health, Education, maintains a computerized system for AFDC was created through and Welfa recordingzhild abuse information, amendments, to the federal Social Other financial programs include and investigates reports of abuse. Sectirity Act in an effort to extend food stamps, commodity distribution, The Department's foster care and . public assistance to include and child support. The Child Support adoption programs have.'been dependent children. In 1962 Program is a new one, started in expanded to provide temporarydr additiOnal amendments enabled August 1975, in response to federal permanent homes for abused states to complement financial and State laws requiring that child children when a court has ordered assistance with social services, suchsuppori.payments be collected from placement away from their families. as day care. The Most recent absent or estranged parents of These services fOr children are . amendment is Title XX, which dependent Children. . offered without regard to family Children's'medical needs are met income. by the State's Medicaid Program I TheWelfaie Department has. Eapiilies and children receiving AFDC sedoperative peogfams with he Ters,"ttre entittedto receive sociatsprvices Department of tvrerliat Plea ands_ provided through ,he Department. Social Mental Retardation, the T xas services are directed toward the-goals of Education Agency; the Teicas self- support, self-sufficiency. Rebabiiitation..Comraniaiion, the or remedying abuse or negleat, preventing or remedying inappropriate State Qonteission.for,ttle Blind, the institutional care, or securing referral for ? Texas Department of Commaiiity institutional care. This would include all , , Affaiis, the Texas Department of available physical health (all AFDC . Health ttesOurpes; the Texas children are covered by Medicala), Commissiod ortE1/41colicAm,,the* mental,health, housing, home. Tekas Migrant Council, and the management, employment and job Texas Emiifeyment Commission. training, family planning, day care,

4n addition, the;Departnient . protection for ildren, and foster cars* administers the interstate Ccimpact services and efits. , -on the Placement orChildren, Authorizatio Passed by the Legislature in 1975. Federal Soci l Se curity Act, Title IV-A, The Corraipt jOitls Texas with other XX and XAX . states'in asStiring high standards of Number of Children (Five and Under) co;operation betOeen states for the Served Last Year . * placemerit'of Children, in substitute, 95,671 (For number of children serVed care, by county, see chart in Appendix.)

Commissioner of Welfare: ,Funds Spent on Children (Five and 44, Under) Last Year Raymond W. Vowel! 548,755,366 ,,State Depakfnent of PublierWeilare Eligibility Requirements John H. Reagan Building Thech ild,must be under 18 (or under 1 21 if attending school) and living with a ,./kiistin, Texas 78,701. Arent or close relatiVe. The family's 4 (512) .474-5777 income must be below tit level of TEX:700322-5777 reasoneble,su6istence as defined by S. the State DepartMent of Public Welfare.' No one Freceiving AFDC payments may . , have preciously_ transferred property in Aid to Fa.Mtlies With order to qualify;for assistance: The right Dependent Ohildren (AFDC) to collect child support Payments must '-- be signed over to the State. Applicants . mast supply the Departmeht with their : Progr44m*Organizatiop ti Sdcial Security numbers,or having . the program iliftdministered by the . none, apply for them through he, State bepartmen of Public.,fare. A Department. person applies for the Aidlo Families Contact Person with Decedent Children Program Por more information about AFDC, (AFop) by writing. calling or visiting the contact: - . nearest bepartment of pUblic Welfare Chief of Financial SerVices office. Thsreesre local public welfare State Department of Public Welfare Offices throughout t State. John H. Reagan Building .0 Services, . .- Austin, Texas 78701 APdc gives fin lel aid to families (512) 475-6153 . with children,wrio are deprived of. TEX-AN 822-6153 normal support because of the-death,' .. absence ghlisability-of at least one 4 . . parent. Basi9financial help curies from I a month ly grant made lo the remaining Child Support Program parent or relative in liehalf,oLthe deprived child. The amount given is

determined by the amount of the family Program zation . income, the size of the family and the The prog am is administered through amount of State funds currently w. the Legal Division, Slate Department of available. . Public Welfare. Regional Child Suppdrt - . 54 55 Units are located kroughout the State state welfare office. WM these, the Services and in, certain counties ,which have participantcan go to the local issuing Nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations, _ entered into cooperative agreements .office :,A4 su al I y the Post Office) between including Head Start programs, child with the State Department of Public 10 am. and 3 p.m. oh weekdaytt and care centers, schools and summer Welfare to perform theie services. purchase a monthly allotment of food camps, obtain a wide variety of , SServices stamps. There are provisions for. foodstuffs throughthe program. EffectivipAugust 1, 1975. the Child emergency issuant:e. / The eligible organization applies to SupportCollection Program provides Participgits pay a sum of money one of five commodity distribution paternity determination, c iiactsupport the amount based on family size andnet offices around the State. When monthly income collection and location ofebsentparent and receive a larger accepted, the organization picks up a services to all eligible fwfiifiesiin me Aid value of food stamps, which cart be scheduled allotment of 'commodities at to Families with Dependent Children ,spent like money in participating fpod the nearest commbdity distribution (AFDC) Prograrn,Additionally, these stores. Former participanti in the warehouse. Supplemental Food Program are now same services are available to any .Related Program: served by the Food Stapp Program individual upon application and payment.. Food Certificate Program of an application fee. Monies collected .Authorization. The Food Certificate Program is-as ilLare disbursed pursuant to federal law_ Federal Food Stamp Act of 1964, as pilot program, available in one county in Authorization amended., Texas Brazos Countj. Certain public Federal SoCial Security Act, Title IV-D, Admission Requirements assistance recipientspregnant ". Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, Art.-695c, -' Tote eligible for Mod stamps, single women, mothers foronevear after birth Sec. 18-B... end family housebOlds must: meet of a child, and babies up to age 1 can obtain milk, prepared formula and Eligibility Requirements national standards for income and - enriched cereal with food certificates. - AFDC caretaker recipients must resources or have all household . Pregnant women and mothers get one assign to the State any rights to suptort. members receiving public assistance; five-dollar certificate per-month; babies Non-welfare individuals must make be made up of a gioup of persas, get two five-dolVar certificates'per application for such services and also excluding roomers or hoarders, who are month. assign their rights to the State to atture living as one economic unit; cook their They apply for food certificates. recovery of costs froin arty child support own food at home, except for disabled through local welfare offices. collected. elderly who.qualify for a delivered meals grogram; make certain that able-bodied Certifictes are sent from Department of Contact Person household members over 18 register for Welfare's fiscal office in "Tustin. Ofi4 the For more information about the Child employment. Children in a household certificates, specialized foodstuffs can Support Program, contact: are considered part of the household, be obtained irFgrocery stores and drug Administrator and the number of persons in the stores. Child Support P?ogram, Legal Division household determine the amount of food Brazos County has applied for the John H. Reagan Buildin'g stamps the household receives. Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Auitin, Texas 78701 Recipients in theld to Families with program, administered by the Texas . (512) 475-2466 Dependent Children (AFDC) and Department of Health Resources. There TEX-At4 822-2466 Supplemental Security Income is a likely possibility that the pilot Programs are automatigally eligible. program will be terminated in favor of the WIC Program this fiscal year. Contact Person iL Director Authorization Food Stamp Firogram. Food Stamp Section Federal Register, Agriculture, Title 7, State Department of Public Welfare Chapter 2, Pafts250 and 265, as John H. Reagan Building amended. Program Otganization Austin, Texas 78701 Number of Children (Fiv% and Under) The U.S. Department of Agriculture , (512) 475-6126 Served Last Year supplies the food stamps and the State TEX-AN 822-6126 315,in Food Certificate Program administers the program. Certification- . for food stamps is done bythe State Funds Spent on Children (Five and .r.Depastment of Public Welfare. Food Uhder) Last Year' steno) issuance is usually handled by the CoMmodity Distribution $16,530 in Food Certificate Program U.S. Postal Service. Admission Requirements . Services Organizations must demonstrate that The head of a family who wants to Program Organization they are nonprofit,,tax-exeinpt and have obtain food stamps applies to the local Commodity Distribution Division, a liceitSe if the State requires a office of the Department of Public , State Department of Public Welfare, license An assessment fee of up to 60 Welfare. After approval, thd participant administers the program. The foods are cents per participant per year may be , receives an Authorization to Purchase provided by the U.S. Department of charged by the distributing agency card and identification card from the Agriculture.

56 55 Contact Petson- The administrators of residential fanjily day home. These services are Administritor (twenty-four hour), child caring provided to permit caretaker relatives to Commodity Distribution Division insjitutions must receive an get altil; or take job training, or because State Department of Public Welfare administrator's license, which is ofthe death, continued absence from J. H Reagan Building separate and apart from the child care the home or incapaqty of the child's AntinfTexas 78701 institution license. mother and the inability of any member (512) 475-3027 Authorization of the child's family to provide adequate "TEX-AN 822-3027 SB.9,65:64th Legislature, Regular and-pecessary care. Child care services Session, 1975, Effective January 1,1976 may also be provided for eligible (repeals Art. 695c, Sec. 8(a), Vernon's children who are mentally retarded. Texas Civil Statutes); Vernon's Texas In most regions of the State, there are Licensing qf Child Care Civil Statutes, gec.t95a-1 (requires the two specialists working as a team to ,Facilities, child Placement licensing of administrators of child develop purchased day care services for Agencies, Administrators of caring institutions. 24-hour care). children in the AFDC, WIN, and -Child Care Institutions Eligibility Requirements Vocational Rehabilitation Day Care Programs. The Day Care Resource Any individual, public or private - agency, or corporation wantin gTo apply Specialist provides informational Program Organization for a license, certificateor registration determines whether a facility complies The Child Care licensing lah is should contact a local public welfare with federarstandards. The Child administered by the Licensing Division, office. Requirements for licensing are Development Specialisi pr6vides State Department of Public Weifare;.and spelled out in the standards published whatever training is necessary to assist facilities in meeting requirements and in . is carried out by licensing staff-in public by the Department. t helping identify and develop community welfare offices across the State. Contact Person The law requiresip establishment-of resources. (See Directory section for For more information about licensing. names and addresses of Specialists in an Advisory Committee on ChildCare contact: Licensing (See Directory section for regional offices.) names of members). Licensing Division Department staff also assist parents in State Department of Public Welfare identification of family needs, selection Services John H. Reagan Building . of appropriate resources to meet those The aim is to protect the health, safety, Austin, Texas 78701 needs, and evaluation of the suitability and well being of the children of the (512) 475-6183 - Institutional and of the resources. State in all child wing institutions, Administrators Licensing foster homes, daycare centers, group Authorization TEX-AN 822-6183 day care homes, family day homes. Federal Social Security Act, Title XX; (512) 475-6996 - Day Care registered family homes, agency homes funds allocated by the State Legislature. TEX-AN 822-6996 and child placing agencies. Toward that (512) 475-5721 -Policies-and Number of Children (Fiveand Under) end, the Division establishesminimum- Standards' 'Served Last Year standards for the safety and protection TEX-AN 822-5721 9,110 of children in childcare facilities. To . Funds SPenf on Children (Five and assure maintenance of'standards, the Under) Last Year Licensing Division is required to S15,119;000 - regulate these facilities through a Day,Care to AFDC. ReCipients system of monitoring. The Division may Eligibility Requirements ' request referralsto the appropriate Children must be Members of families district attorney, county attorney, or the who are welfare recipients or who meet Program Organization Attorney General for injunctive relief and income eligibility standards. All daycare civil or criminal penalty. The State Department of Public must meet State licensing standards Welfare purchases child rate services (For the number and capacity of child and Federal Interagency Day Caro and.provides information concerning care centers and family day hordes by ' Requirements. care to families in the Aid to Families county, see chart in-Appendix.) Contact Person The Department offers consultation towith Dependent Children (AFDC) Program, The Program is parried out For moreinformation about AFDC day potential baretakers in meeting and through public welfare offices across care services, contact maintaining standards for licensing and the State. Directoroi Programs, Child certification. The Department also offers DevelopmentlCare Services Services:- consultation to prospective and actual Social ServiceiBrandh users,of facilities. Upon Bequest, the The aim is to provide care for AFDC State Department of Public Welfare Department makes available to children during that part of the day when John H, Reagan Building interested persons a copy of licensed the adults responsible for them cannot Austin, Texas 78701 facilities and a.copy of the licensing. ,provide the care., 1 (512)475-6481 standards for Texas. Day eare services are' defined as caie ,'IgX-AN 622-6481 ,of achild foC a portion of Pie day, but for

I a time less than twenty-lourhoursein the 44, home by a responsible person, or outside the home in a day care facility or 56 57

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Work Incentive (WIN) Contact Person Program/Day Care -For more information about the WIN Program, contact: Director. WIN Program Program Organization Social Services Branch To qualify for financial assistance State Department of Public Welfare through the AFDC (Aid to Families with John H. Reagan Building Dependent Children) Program, certain Austin, Texas78701' adults must register for manpower (512)475-6954 ". training or employment services. TEX-AN 822-6954 Veining and employment servicesare provided through the Work Incentive (WIN) Program, operated by the State Department of Public Welfare and the Joint Department. f Public Texas Employment Commission. All Welfire-Vodational children of Witi participants are eligible :Rehabilitation (DPW-VR1 Day for day care services if needed. Care Program Services WIN Day Care strives-to meet the individuayneeds of children whose Prograrn Organization parents are involved in the WIN The State Department of Public Program. Therefore, a variety of child Welfare administers day care services care arrangements are available, these for children of public welfare recipients include day care centers, in-home care, served by the Department of Public family day home settings, and before- Welfare-Vocational Rehabilitation and after-school care. Program, jointlyoperated with Texas Authorization Rehabilitation Commission and the . Federal Social Security Act; TitleIV-A. State Commission for the Blind. Air IV-C and XX Services Number of Children (Five and Under) In-home care, day care provideil by Served Last Year nonprofit and commercial day.care 6,059 , centers, and specially contracted day care are purchased fbr children of all Funds Spent on Children (Five and public welfare participants in the Under) Last Year Department of Public,Welfare- S1,775,000 Vocational Rehabilitation Program. .Admission Requirements Authorization All 'children served-by WIN. Day Care /Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act, roust have parents in the WIN program. Sec. 2A-and 4A, 1973; Federal Social' All typesof childcare-purchased for Security Act, TitleXX. WIN children must comply with State licensing standards and the Federal Number of Children (Five and Under)

. t Served Lait Year . , Interagency Day Care Requirements. , 2,078 , . All AFDC recipients must register for .1r. training or employment services in the Funds Spent on Children (Five and t1P,P,r.ograrri, unless they are: Under) Last Year , -'"!1:,::Viircliats under age 16 $1,361,500 Children under 21 attending sbhool Admission Requirements full-time . r'rChildren in this day care program Person sywho are physically unable must be: 1) children whose families to work receive grants through the Aid to Mothers or other relativeswho must Families with Dependent Children care for children under'age 6 (AFDC) Program, orwhose families are Persons who need to be home to income - eligible; and 2) children of care for an ill or incapacitated. 'enrollees in Texas Rehabilitation -househOrd meal-tier Commission or State Commission for 1 Persons who live too faraway from the,Blind programs. All day care must a WIN project. meet State licensing and Federal Interagency Day Care Requiremepts.

58 57 I Contact'Person TheDepartment also operates the For more information about f'/ -YR Child Abuse Hot Line in Austin where Day Care; contact: anyone from across the State can report Director. Self Support Section abuse or neglect. day or night. The toll Social Services Branch free Hot Line number is 1- 800 -292 -5400. State Department of Public Welfare Trained persohnel will receive the report John H. Reagan Building and refer it to the appropriate local Austin. Tea:as 78701 Social services office for investigation. if (512)475-6481 the report is made in good faith. the TEX-AN 822-6481 caller is protected by law from damage

suits. . Authorization/ Federal Social Security Act, Titles XX Protective Services for and IV-B: Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes,' Children as ameoileci. Art. 695c-2. and the Texas Family rode. Number of Childrell (Five and -Program Organization Under)Served Last Year The program is administered by the 30.794 State Department of Public Welfare and carrieout through public welfare Funds Spent on Children, (Five and 'offices peross the State. Under) Last Year . $10,334,457 -Services B,ylaw. the State Department of PublicEligibility Requirements Welfare must gyve protection to any Protective Services are designed to child who has been abused or offer services to all children under 18 neglecd. The Texas Family Codo who need protection. requires anyone who suspects-child Contact Person abuse or neglect to report it to the State Director. Children and Family Services Department of Public Welfare. Failure to 'Social Services Branch report is a misdemeanor. State Department of Public Welfare When abuseor neglect comes to the John H. Reagan Building attention °Lam one of the lotal social Austin. Texas 78701 services offices of Public Welfare. that (512) 4756481 office immediately beginWo investigate. TEXAN 822-6481 If investigation reveals that action is warranted. the first concern is the child, and the office devotes its attention to remedy of Ihhatecier threat exists to the Foster Care Services for child's safety, health or Well being. Children Every effort is made to preserve or restore the child's family and home. Parents are helped to recogniie and Program Organization remedyhome conditions that are The prograrnis administered by the harrriful to the child. They are informed State Department of Public Welfare and of and encouraged to use relatives and carried out through public Welfare community resources to provide offices across the State. adequate care for the child.Only in cases where thechild's home sittlation Services. is dangerous doesthe Departmdnt go When a child must be removed from, through proceedings to obtain the home for protection, foster care may conservatorship of the child and place be provided bythe Stag Department of' the child elsewhere: Public Welfare. Thechild may be The Departmept maintains a child :neglected, abused or abandoned. Court abuse report system-in Austin. The and legal proceedings are necessary. system is called CANRIS (for "Child 4 The Departmentrecruits. st9dies and Abuse and Neg 'act Report and Inquiry certiliesfoster homes as meeting State System"). CANRIS keeps a file of l icensing standards. The Department reported child abuse and negledt cases places the child in the type of facility in Texas, so that a work% or court can which will best meet the individual have a ready reference to any prior history of child abuseor neglect. I

58 - 59 child's needs, and makeS supervisory Services Contact Person visits to maintry. the placement and help The State Departthen of PuNic For, more information about Adoptive the child benefit from the placement. . Welfare, throngits regional offices, SerZaces, contact. Unless the parenthheild relationship has prOvides adoptive services for any Director. Children and Family been terminated*thecourt. the neglectedrabused er abandoned Services Section Department works with the parents to children who are made legally-available Social Services Branch stabilize the home. When foster care is for adoptive placernerit by a District., State Department of Publisifare to be ended, the Department helps Court. Most frequently these are hard-to- John H. Reagan Building, prepare the child for return to the home p/Ate children. Generally speaking, Austin, Texas 78701 or for placement a relative, in art hard-to-place children are retarded. (512) 475-6481 adoptive home or propnateseverely handicapped or racially mixed. I:EX-AN 822-6481 setting. . they may be members of a minority race The State Department of Public or school-aged siblings who need to be Welfare pays for foster care and adopted together. The Department Medicaid preimurns for chudrer. administers a Subsidized Adoption Interstate Compact on the for AFDC (Aid to Families-with Program to facilitate the placement of Placement of Children - Dependent Children) foster care, and these children. Eligible children.must be pays Medicaid premiums (or non-AFDC in theAFDC (Aid to Families with children whose foster care payments.areDependent Children) Foster Care Piogram Organization covered wholly orpartially by local childProgram. The Interstate Compact on the welfare boards with which the The Department screens applicants Placement of Children is in istered Department has a child welfare contract.who wish to adopt children and studies by the Special Services Div'.n. State their reasons for wanting a child, income Authorization Department of Public Welfare. management, marital relationship and . Federal Sbciai Security Act. Titles IV- Services A. XIX. and XX, other factori that could affect a healthy relationship between parent and child. A Theough legislation enacted by the Number of Children (Five and Under) social worxer visits tne home from me Regular Session of the 64th Legislature, Seried Last Year time tikchik1 begins living in the new Texas joined thirty-one other states asa 2,698 home until the legal conclusion of the member of the Interstate Compact on Funds Spent on Children (Five and Adoption-. the Placement of Children (ICPC). The Compacthelps protect the needs And Under) Last Year I The State Department of Public 52.913,840 !Estimate) Welfare maintains the Texas Adoptive rights of children involved in interstate platements and sets forth procedures Ns Eligibility Requizements Resource Exchange in Austin. This is a 'current list of the hard-to-place children prescrilkd by statute that individuals. Foster Care Services Are designed to courts, and public or private agencies offer services to all children who are needing adoption. Information for this list is gatherred from each welfare 5 must follow when placing or receiving a homeless, abused or neglected._ .4%, department adoption or foster care child from another Compact state. There Contact Person office in Texas. The list is distributed to are certain placements not covered by For more information about foster the Compact. for example, when a child these offices each month. The . care. contact: Department also sends the list to forty is placed by a parent, stepparent, Director. Children and Family private agencies within the ttateand to grandparent, adult brother of sister, or Services Sectin eighty-three-out-of-state agencies. adultitncle or aunt, with any such Social Services Branch public arid private. relative in.gnother Compact state. State Department of PUblic Welfare In essence, the Compact requires that Authorization John H. Reagan Building any person, court, or public or private Austin, Texas 78701 Social Sectirity Act. Titles XX and IV agency wishing-to place a child in' (A and B) and Texas Statute (512) 475-648;1 another Compact state must submit a TEX-AN 822 -641 Number of Chilctren (Five and Under) request to the State Compact , . Served Last Year , Administrator in the receiving state. 568. t When the receiving state determines Fund's Spent on children (Five and -that the placement does not'appear to be. Adoptive Services Under) Last Year. contrary to the best interests of the child, 5751,816- ICPC forms will be executed authorizing , the placement. The sending person, Eliglbiliqufrements PrOgram Organization court, or public or privateggency shall The Court must request the The program is administered by the retain jurisdiction until:the child is Department of Public Welfare to place a State Department of Public Welfare and adopted, reaches majority, or is child in adoption. carried.out through public welfare discharged with the concurrence of the offices across the State,. . Compact Administrator where the child is placed. In the event the placement must be ended prior to one of the above, ,r the sending person, court, orpublic private agency shall be responsible for maintenance, support, and return drthe child. Ito*Y ow 60 59 Authorization Admission Requirements Vendor Drugs Senate Bill407.64th Legislature, 1975. Current welfare recipients must have a Contaa Person - current Medicaid card. Other perSons must bewithin certain income Compact Administrator Program Organization Division of Special Service; boundaries (for exarnple,,a family of four The program is administered through State Department of Public Welfare persons whose income does not exceed the Pharmacy Service Division, Medical John H. Reagan Building $7,774.50 annually would be eligible). Programs, State Department of Public Austin. Texas 78701 Cpntact Person Welfare. TheDepartment makes vendor (512) 475-5612 Program Manager, Family Planning payments to pharmacies and dispensing TEX-AN 822-5612 Social Services Branch physicians who have a contract with the State Departmdrit of Department'of Public Welfare. Public Welfare John H. Reagan Building Services Family Planning Program Austin, Texas 78701 Most legend (prescription) and certain (512) 475-5991 non-legend (non-prescription) drugs TEX-AN 822-5991 can be provided to eligible welfare recipients including AFDC family Program Organizagtion members. Prescriptions are limited to The program is administered by the those prescribed by the treating State Department of Public Welfare., physician, and cannot exceed three Department workers inform eligible Early and Periodic Screening, prescriptions per month, per.eligible persOns of available family planning Diagnosis and Treatment: recipient, and this includes refilled services free of cost to them ,Private Medical and Dehtal Programs prescriptions. Five refills are permitted physicians, hospitals, and igency per prescriptbn, but the total number of clinics provide the services and are drugs received may not constitute more reimbursed through Mesficaid (for Program Organization than a six months' supply. current welfare recipgnts) or the State The Federal Government contracts Department of Public Welfare (for other Authorization with one agency in the state for all income-eligible persons.) Federal Social Security Act, as services funded by Title XIX of the Social amended, Title XIX; and the State Services Security Act: In Texas, the agency is the Medical Assistance Act of 1967. Counseling sessions provide State Department of Public Welfare. The recipients with information about family agency may then subcontract with other Admission Requirements planning services available to them, organizations for particular services, in Children must be certified as eligible counseling is given for individual Texas, medical and dental care under. under the Aid to Families with problems relatedto family planning Title XIX is subcontracted to the Texas Dependent Opildren (MFDC) Program needs. Family Planning medical, special,Department of Htaitn Resources. For a Drugs must 6e prestribed by a licensed and educational services are provided tofull description of the Title XIX program, physician and dispensed by a licensed the recipient. These services include see the Texas Department of Health pharmacist. . annual and follow-up physical Resources section. Contact Person examinations, labdiatory tests,jdrugs Department of Public Welfare staff For more information on the Vendor and supplies, contraceptiye devices, handle related social services, such as. Drugs Program, contact. counseling, localization of IUD providing information on the program, Program Manager (intrauterine device), inpatient and referral, helping to remove barriers to Pharmacy Service Division, outpatient surgery (sterilization and use of services by qualified recipients Medical Programs abortion), and treatment of barriers such as child care and ,State Department of Public Welfare complications due to family planning, transportation needs, and counseling John H. Reagan Building surgery or IUD insertion. All recipients which helps lessen fears and corrects Austin, Texas 78701 are given a choice of refusing or misinfofmation regarding referral or 41, . (512) 475-6321 accepting the services offered, and are follow-up services or missed TEX-AN 822-6321 iven their choice of providers and appointments. The social service staff contraceptive methods. stays in communication and works Authorization closely with medical personnel in the program. Continuing Education Program Federal Social Security Act, Title XIX, (Medicaid services to current welfare Contact Person recipients); Federal Soda! Security Act, " Program Manager ;Title XX, (social services to current EPSDT Program Program Organization The State Department of Public recipients and medical-social services State Department of Public Welfare to income-eligible persons). John H. Reagan Building Welfare provides for the education of Austin; Texas 78701 individuals who work with children (512) 475-6391 through the Continuing Education TEX-AN 822-6391 Bureauwithin theDePartment as well as through contractual arrangement with educational institutions. `

60 *- 61 ," :SirAces Media Services . The Department maintains training. staff in each region inthe State to ./. . provide inservice training of staff who Program Organization work in the agcy'sprogram. The The Department produces printed and , Departmenstaff receive enrichment audio - visual materials to explain public education frn consultants and welfare programs to the public. I program ialists through contract 1. with educational institutions. Services Presently, there is a contractual . Printed materials include two large agreement between the Department of bOoklets: "Directory of Child Welfare I Public Welfare and eighteen universities Resources" and "In Time of Trouble." and collegesin the State. These schools Some of the smaller ones are "Family tt provide education through seminars, Social Services," "Special Kids Who workshops, and institutes for all staff . Need Parents," "HealthScreen in 9," and particularly those persons who work "Aid to Familleswith Dependent. with children. Under Title XX; Federal Children," and leaflets on child abuse. Social Secudti Act, training "Texas Day Care" is a quarterly opportunities for education of staff are publication for day care personnel. continued; opportunity for training the _The Department has slide shows on staff of provider agencies is included as child abuse, day care and the EPSDT well. "Provider" agencies are defined as Program (Early and Periodic Screening, those agencies with whom thb Diagnosis and Treatment). Those on Department has entered into contract for child abuse include "A Simple Child," the purchase of social services. for young adults with parenting The expenses of the educational problems; "A Special Kind of Patient," opportunities are met through a cost - for the medical profession; "Children in sharing arrangement in which the `Danger," for educators and day care institutions pay 25 percent Of the cost of personnel; "Police File: Victimized the program to the Department of Public Children," for law enforcement officers; Welfare to obtain 75 percent of the and "The Wednesday Children," for program cost from federal funds. general audiences. Those on daycare include "Carino," for general audiences kuthorization (available in Spanish); and "Day by Day Federal Sociii Security Act, Title IV-A Care," for day care providers. Those on and-Title XX; State and university funds. EPSDT are "EPSDT for a Brighter Funds Spent on Children (Five and Tomorrov)," for prospective clients Under) Last Year (available in Spanish); "For Doctors $3,351,951 (all training, except Only," for physicians; and "To Their regional allocations) Good Health," for general audiences. Eligibility Requirements Authorization To be eligible for these educational Federal Social Sectirity Act, Title IV. opportunities, a participant must be: an Eligibility Requirements* employee of the Department of Public . Single copies of literature are. Welfare; a member of the staff of a available free upon request. Fees may be provider agency; a volunteer working in charged for bulk orders. To obtain the agency's program and supervised by literature or arrange a showing of a slide the agency; a person preparing for show, contact the nearest regional office employment in the State agency; or an of the Department of Public Welfare'. "individual providing a Special service to (See Directory section for regional a recipient and receiving reimbursement . offices.) from the State agency, CohtactPerson Contact Person - -.Por more information about the For more information about education Department's publications and audio- services, contact: visual materials, write: Chief of Continuing Education Director State Department of Public Welfare Special Services Division Fountain Park Plaza State Department of Public Welfare Austin, Texas 78704 John H. Reagan Building (512) 475-6515 Austin, Texas 78701 TEX-AN 822-6515 (512) 475-5612 TEX-AN 822-5612

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Although public education in handicap, have access to a quality Rehabilitation Commission, and the Texashas its roots in the Republic of equcation. Texas has some 1,120 0- State Department of Public Welfare, Texas, the modern school system independent school districts today. in providing edupational had its beginning with the Gilmer - The newest member of the opportunities and vocational training. Aikiri of 1949. In addition to. education family in Texas is the to children and families served by creating the Foundation School State's system of twenty regional those agencies. In addition, the Program, the laws placed State education service centers. These Agency cooperates with the Texas responsibility for the public schools locally-oriented units are not branch Department of Health Resources in in the Texas EduCation Agency. The offices of the Texas Education the immunization of school children.

. . Agency is composed Of the State Agency.nather, they are . Programs for children under age 6 to. Board of Education, an elected independent agencies designed to include kindergarten, special - policymaking body; the serve schootdistricts within a education programsfor .4., Commissioner of Education, and the certain geographic-region. Each is handicapped children, preschool, %tate Department of EdUcatlon. governed by a regional lay pillion programs for bilingual and migrant ;The Agency administers the board of directors, Services to children, and food Programs for low- Stases responsibility for public schools include staff development, income children. The Agency's school education, kindergarten films and other media, curriculum homemaking education programs through grads 12, occupational and development in special areas, are for prospective parents and child technical eduCation it planning assistance, and electronic, care workeri, primarily high school postseCondary institutions, and data processing., - students. certain educational programs for The Texas Education Agency The Texas School for the Blind out-of-school youth and adults. viorrs with other state agencies, and the Texas School fbr the Deaf Managing the public school, including the Department of Mental also come under the direction of the enterprise is-a joint responsibility Health and Mental Retardation, the Texas Education AgenEy. Both state and local. The local district, 'Texas Youth Council, the Texas schools are residential, educational. operites the;Kucational prOgram, facilities Sert

.4 '63 Commissioner of education: Contact Persona Brockette, Ed.D. Glen French, ChairperSon Texas Edudation Agendy Advisory Council on Early Childhood Educatioh 201 East Eleventh Street Texas Education Agency Austin, Texas 78701 201 East Eleventh Street (512) 475-3271 AWiii; Texas 78701 TEX-AN 822-3271 (514475-2608 TEX-AN 822L2608 Karen Quebe, Vice-Chairperson 1809 Sylvan Drive Advisory Council onEarly - Austin, Texas i8741 Childhood Education (512) 441-5789

Program Organization The Council was creafed by the Texas The Foundation School Legislature in 1973 to assist the State Kindergarten Program Board of Education in formulating minimumstandards for quality - educational experiences in all public , Program Organization programsat the kindergarten grade The program.is administered by the level. The twenty-four members are Elementary Education Section, Texas appointed by the Governor to serve two- Education Agency. .4ear terms. (See Directory section for

memberi) . Services In 1969, with the passage of House Bill Services 240,the Texas Legislature first The advice Atte CoUncil is used by authorized public kindergartens for the the Texas Education Agency in whole State. The first phase of this developing minimum standards for program began in September 1970.1t kindergarten education, formulating served: 1) Children 5 years 5 months of minimum standards for the certification age who coutdribk, read, or of professional and paraprofessional comprehend the common English words personnel at the kindergarten level, necessary for normal progress in the developing the curriculum and course offirst grade; and 2) Children from families studies for the kindergarten grade level, whose income per year was $3,000 or and developing accreditation standards less. for public kindergarten. Both categories of children were In May 19757.M Council submitted to classified as "educationally the Commissioner of Education twenty- ,. . handicapped" and as such have been onerecommendations for public school given priority. kindergartens, covering such topios as In September 1973, with thipassage parental involvement, pupil-teacher of House Bill 787, the63rd Texas ratio, and teacher training. Legislature authorized a second and During 1975-761the Council will third phase in the kindergarten program. conduct seven regional forums. The second phase, of the program throughout the State. The forums will authoripd kindergarten for - enable interested personsto contribute educationally handicapped 5-year-old their ideas for recommendations to be children for either one semester of the submitted to the Commissioner of school year or two semesters; this Education by June 1,1976. decision being left to local school Authorization districts. In addition, House Bill 787 Texas Education Coder Sec. 11.17 authorized kindergarten for alt other 5= year-old children for a minimum of 90 days.

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64 The third phase of this program *;II Funds Spent on Children (Five and come from'iow-income families. 1n Texas begin in September 1977 when the ,Under) Lest Year the programs concentrate on Spanisk kindergarten program will become fully $43,000,000 and English language development for operational. Beginning in September Admission Requirements the Mexican American child while 1977, school districts will choose to 5 years of age on or before September accommodating other pupils. The operate kindergartens for all 5-year-old 1 of current school year. programs normally use the native children regardless of educational or language of the child, Spanish, while Contact Persons economic need either on a 90-day or providing evieriences and education For more specific information about 180-day plan. that promote oral language and concept Kindergarten Program, contact: Although all 5-year-old children in developmenin both Spanish and Dr. Glen French 'Texas have been eligible to attend English. Director of Elementary Education .kindergarten since September 1973, However, services also are provided to Dr. Maria Irene Ramirez . attengance is not compulsory. However, . children who are monolingual in Consultant in.Elementary Education it is mandatory that school districts offer Spanish, monolingual in English, and Dr. Libby Vernon the program. - bilingual. All'programs emphasize Consultant in Elementary Education By law, the State-funded kindergarten Mexican American and Anglo American 'reps Education Agency must: cultures. . .201 East Eleventh Street Develop in children the appropriate Specific objectives of the individual Austin, Texas 78701 language skills as a base for later" program vary depending on the needs (512) 475-2608 development; and desires of each school district. TEX-AN 822-2608 prepare children to participate in the SpeCialized equipment and experiences world of their peersbroader are often used to help children develop cultural stream intb-whichThey will * their ideas about themselves and to eventually move; improve attitudes about their cultural Begin to develop every chiles Bilingual Program heritage, as well as an appreciation of and physical skills and a cooperative another language (e.g. English) and attitude necessary for adequate culture. Parental-community , perforrrince in school; Program Organization involvement in program planning and Gain an appreciation of each child's The program is administered by the development is required. cultural and family traditions; Office of Bilingual Education, Office of Authofization- Develop in 'children an awareness and Education, U.S. Department of Health, kderal Elementary and Secondary appreciation of the broader world in Education and Welfare; and supervised Education Act of 1965, Title VII as which they live; and coordinated by the Division of amended by PL 93-380; Chapter 21, Begin td develop each child's. Bilingual Education, Texas EducatiOn Subchapter L. Texas Education Code, uniquely individual character and Agency. as amended. - personality. To qualify under present fedelal Related Programs guidelines, the local school district must Number of Children (Five and Under) Served Last Year Development and review of design a demonstration program plan kindergarten teacher certification and forimplemenlation of bilingual 11,751 (Compiled from questionnaires endorsement, development and review education ant:Men submit an sent to school districts.) County figures, of student eligibility guidelines, 'application for Titte VII financial supportcompiled from Superintendents' Annual_ developoent and review of college to the U.S. Office.of Education (USOE). Reports, appear in th.ectiactin the programItandards fix kindergarten Texas Education-Agency personnel, Appendix. . teachers, and State adoption of. USOE personnel, and outside Admission Requifements kindergarten textbooks. consultants evaluate these plans. Final The primary target population is approval rests with the USOE Office of childrervagt63-5, who have limited Authorization Bilingual Education. Texas Education Code, Sec. Eriglish-speaking ability and come from 21.131-135. Services low-income families (families with, Early childhood bilingual education incomes below $3000 orthose receiving Number of Children (Five and Under) programs are designed to meet the payments through the state Aid to, Served Last Year special educational needs of children, Families with Dependent Children_ 177.079 (For number of children ages 3-5, who have limited English- Program, as aperoved under.Title IV of served by county, see chart in speaking ability, who come from the federal Social Security Act) or those Appendix.) environments where tfte dominant who live in environments where the. language is other than English, and who dominant language is other than . -English.

66 65 Contact Person Authorization Spanish and English oral:language For more information about the Section 11.11 of the Texas Education development and the multicultural Bilingbal Program, contact: Code. education approach are high priority Dr Arturo Lui9utieuez, Director Number of Children (Five and Under) offerings for migrant kindergarten DiviSion of Bilingual Education Served Last Year students, in addition tothe regular Texas Education Agency 84 comprehensiveschool program.. 201 East Eleventh Street Kindergarten instructional personnel Austin, Texas 78701 Funds,Spent on Children (Five and participate in staff development (512) 475-3651 'Under) Last Year activities addressing specific TEX-AN 822-3651 $185,217 instructional needs of migrant students. Admission Requirements Migrant funds are also used for non- Any child who does not speak the - instructional services such as parental English language, is at least 5 years old, involvement, medical and dental . Preschool Non-English and will be eligible to enter first grade expenses, snacks or breakfast, and Speaking Program the ensuing school year. clothing. Contact Person, Authbrization For more information about the Federal Elementary and Secondary Program Organization Preschool Non-English Speaking Education Act of 1965, Title I, Migrant, The program is administered by the. 'Program, contact: Amended by Public Law 93-380; House Division of Bilingual Education, Texas Dr. Arturo Luis Gutierrez, Director Bill 787, the 63rd Legislature. Education Agency. A school must apply Division of Bilingual Education for a program, then be approved and Texas Education Agency Number of Children (Fiveand Under) funded through the Texas Education 201 East Eleventh Street Served Last Year Agency. -_ Austin, Texas 78701 4,640 in 181 school districts. (For Services (512) 475-3651 numberof children served by county, see chart in Appendix.) The Preschool Non-English Speaking TEX-AN 822-6651 Prograrh9perates only in the,spring and Funds Spent onthildren1Five and summer and has a goal of preparing Under), Last Year non-English speaking children for first 41,100,750 (approximately) Migrant Kindergarten Program cgrade the following year. English is Admission Requiremints taught as a second langprage,and, Children must be 5 years old by the end of the program, all children must. Program Organization September.1 of the year they enter. Their have gained a comnfand of the minimum The migrant kindergarten program parents must have moved within the past, number of English words necessary for exists only as an integral part of the year and be currently involved in their adjustment to first grade Children Foundation School Program . agricultural work or food processing, In must otherwise be prepared so that they kindergartens, Texas school districts Fiscal Year 1977 the definition will be can make the best adjustments possible may receive-federal funds for mrgrant 5- expanded to include migration within to first grade year -old children enrolled in the regular the past fie years and children of. programs vary widely according to kindergarten program through Office of migrant commercial fishermen. individual school districts, btit each Compensatory/Migrant Education, Contact Person - teacher must haVe experience in Texas Education Agency. Dr. Severo GOrnez teaching children whose first language' Aschool district may become eligible Associate Commissioner for isone Other than English. All children for migrantlunds by submitting a formal Programs for Special Populations :must be taught a minimum of three and a proposal according to procedures of the Texas Education Agency half hours each day (two hours of which Division of Federal Funding, Texas 201 East Eleventh Street must be in oral language instraction), Education Agency. and each child must finish with a Austin, Texas 78701 Services minimuth of one hundred hours in oral (512) 475-3651 The monies school districts receive language instruction. Programs vary in TEX-AN 822.3651 may be used to supplement already length front -fifty to ninety days. existing instructional services by employing a teacher aide or migrant resource teachers. Teacher aides may be used in kindergartens where there is a high percentage of migrant children.

66 67 MigrakitPreicinderjgarten Fund's-Spent on Children(Five and Program Under) Last Year f $1,456,778 Admission Requirements . Program Organization _ Children,must be 4years old by The program is administered by the September 1 of the year they enter. Their Office of Compensatory/Migrant parents must have moved within tifie past Education, Texas Education Agency. A year and be currently involved in school district may become eligible for agricultural work or food processing. In

migrant funds brsubrnitting a formal Fiscal Year 1977 the definition will be . proposal according to procedures of the expanded to include migration within Division of Federal Funding,Tpas the past five years and children of Education Agency. Staff development 'migrant commercial fishermen. and inservice are required and made _ Contact Person ° available through Migrant Education' Dr. Severo GOmez - Service Center staff members Associate Commissioner for Programs throughout the State. for Special Populations Services Texas Education Agency The prekindergarten programihfor -201 East Eleventh Street migrant 4-year-olds, It is usually AT4stin, Texas 78701 operated as:a self contained unit with .(512) 475-3651 twenty children for each teacher and TEX-AN 822-3651 , aide. A few school districts incorporate this program, Within guidelines, in an open classroom structure with the kindergarten program. Special Project: Tfie program uses a bilingual- Developmental Continuity multicultural curriculum especially designed for Texas migrant children. The curriculum includes bilingual Program Organiiation . language development, gross and fine The federal Office of Child . motor coordination, visual and auditory Development, U.S. Department of skills, cognitive developrrient and Health, Education and Welfare, has multicultural activities. Individualized selected the San Felipe-Del Rio instruction is built into tha assessment Cpnsolidated Independent School and teaching process so.children may District for a prOjectihat will merge the progress according to their unique Head Start program with the elementary' -developmental rate. school. The District is one of fourteen In- addition to comprehensive projeet sites in the nation. . educational programs, migrant children All children will be in the same are provided medical, dental, food, and physical facility, opening a variety of' clothing services according to needs. possibilities for continuity pf Parental involvement and education are 'educational and developmental integral parts of the prekindergarten, program. experiences. The curriculum will be sequential and developmentally Authorization appropriate for children between ages 4' Federal Elementary and Secondary . and 8. 4 Education Act, Title, I, 1965 (P.L. 89-750) Yhe federal Office'of Child Number of Children (Five and(Under) Development, thelederal Regional. . Served Last Year Office of Human Development, the 2,640 children in 136 units sixunits Texas Education Agency and the pan with Texas MigraitkCouncil.(Fpr Felipe-Del Rio Consolidated number of children berved by counts', Independent School District cooperated ; see chart in Appendix.) in deVeloping a gianning grant and implementsdthe pr gram in .1975-76, z. -

68 . S Contact Peison SomEisctipols are operating under Glen ,!"Plan Be" the transitional phase of the, Director Of Elementary Education program. Eventually, theywill be phased Texas Education Agency into full services under" Plan A." 201 t ast Eleventh Street Related Program: Austin, Te4aza 78701 Special Education Rsograms for (512)476-2608 Pregnant Students , TEXAN 822-260E Pregnant students may attend regular Charles Carlson, P;ofecPDireciOr biasses, although some school districts San Felipe -Del Rio Consolidated offer special classes in schoolniome, Independeht Schooltistrict hospitals or other appropriate PDXlt29 educational settings. Approximately ten '; Del Rio, Texas 78840 school districts, using additional funds, (512) 775-9561 from private or public sources, offer special setiiices to encourage continued schooling for the young mother. These I services include a short-term nursery, Comprehensive Special instruction in nutation and baby care, Education for health care, family counseling and ,Exceptional Children vocational counseling. Authorization . Texas Education C4de: 16.104 Program Organization Number of Children (Five and Under) . The Department of Special Education, Served Last year Texas Education Agency, administers 25,902 in Plans A and B. (For nurnder the program. Services are delivered of children served by county, see chart through local school districts. in Appendix.) Services Funds Spent on Children (Five and Comprehensive special education, Under) Last /ear tali() known as "Plan A," is a statewicht $11,066,563 (estimate)1973 -74 data programifor children ages 3-21 whcare Admission Requirements pbygically handicapped, mentally Children must be diagnosed retarded.emotionally disturbed,. according to standards set forth in the landicapped by language or learning appraisal process of the Administrative ,disabillties, or pregnant. The program Guide,and Handbook for Special conceritrateson theducaticmal needs , 4 Education,ulletin 714. revised March of the hupil rather than on the 1973. / handicapping condition. It represents a Coiltact Person shift frpm the system of grouping and teaching pupils bAandicapping - Don Partridge . condition (exceptfor legal and Associate Corfimissioner administrative purposes). The program ; Department of Special Education offers ereven types of instructional Texas Education Agency' ; arrangement, dependent upori the 201 East Eleventh Street educational needs of the pupil. There Abstin, Texas 78701 no specifla teacher -pupil ratio for any (512) 475-3501 instruptional arrangement. Schools are TEX-AN 822-3504 required toprovide programs for all handicapped pupils in their district.,`, school district must providelsvidende that a minimum of 15 percent 61the exceptional children served are in the 3, 4, and 5 years age range.or.the -

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r Developmentil Projeetsfor Special Project: Regional Day §choblPrograrn Exceptional Children 0-2 ZeroReject Models for the Deaf . . Program Organization Program Organization Program Organization The Department of Special Education, in July 1975, the Department of The Office of Education for the Deaf, .Texas Education Agency, in July 1975 Special Education, Texas Education Texas Education Agency, administers funded five pilot projects for Agency, funded five projects to find the program. Hearing impaired handicapped infants The purpose is to ways to overcome the difficulty many preschool children may be served either develop models which eventually can beschools have of identifying all in comprehensive special education adapted statewide for working with handicapped children living in a school tPlan Ai programs or in the Regiooai Day severely handicappediinfants 0-2 years district. School Program. Formerly these old and their families The projects we to develop models for children were served by the Preschool Services systematically identifying all Program for Children with a Hearing The Independent School Districts handicapped children 3-21 years of LoSs. (For number of children served by. which have a project are Abilene, referring those children and their county, see chart in Appendix.) Columbia-Brazoria, Garland, Longview families to appropriate services and Services are delivered through local making sure that services actually are and Silsbee. . school districts. Quality control and Each project mu develop processes of,endered 'Each projeCt will be funded forcoordination between and among identifying severely and multiply three years and is expected to seek districti are effected through fiye handiaapped infants, providing other sources of funding after that time. regional offices of education for the educational services to them, The term "zero-reject" implies not that deaf. every child must be educated in a public diveloping programs of total family Services school setting; buthatevery child can education and involvement. training The Regional Day School Program for learn and must be Oven the range of professional personnel, and the Deaf is a statewide, comprehensive learning opportunities necessary to coordinating community resources. educational program for hearing develop to the fullest of individual Methods Of educating and involving impaired children 3-21. Services began capability. .parents of handicapped children vary. September 1,1975 and are provided Some projects are working with parents Se vices through local independent school in the home; Longview is using a mobile The Independent School Districts districts and cooperatives. Emphasis is classroom; and Garland is expanding its which have a pro ject are Alice, Dallas, on individual needs Of children. program for pregnant students, who Giddings, Gregory - Portland and Hays- The services delivery system is statistically stand a higher chance of Blanco. Each project is different in size, maintamed through regional offices. The. bearing handicapped infants locale and identification-referral state is divided into five regions which Authorization methods. Funding level varies froin matchlhe boundaries of Regional Federal Education of the Handicapped$53,000 (Giddings) to $147,000 (Dallas) a Education Service Centers. Act, Title vi. Part B, Public Law 93-380. year The Dallas project is a Coordinated Approximately 100 school districts effort with Dallas County Mental Health participate. Contact Person' and Mental Retardation. Counseling isprovided to parents of Don Partridge hearing impaired childrerdora birth. Associate Commissioner Authorization Five-day residential services are Department of Special Education Education of the Handicapped Act, prdvided in certain areas. Texas Educatibn Agency Title VI, Part B, P.L. 93-380 201 East Eleventh Street Coiitact'Persdn Authorization:. .,- Austin, Tex 8701 Don Partridge Texas EdUcation Code 11.10, (512) 475-350 Associate Commissioner Subsections n-u. TEX-AN 822-3501 Department of Special Education Number of Children (Five and Under) Texas Education Agency Served Last Year . ,201 East Eleventh Street 3,000 children-in 1975-76 Austin, Texas78701 Funds Spent on Children (Five afid (512) 475-3501 Under)'Last Yeat - TEX-AN 822-3501 $10,200,000 (appropriation for 1975-76)

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"Admission Requirements Contact Person . impaired or the hearing impaired. . ,* Children must be diagnosed , Ann Olmstead - Services can begin with the earliest age to standards set forth in the Director of Early Childhood Education ofidentification. -appraisal process of theAdministrative Texas School for the Deaf Contact Person Guide and Handbook for Special 601 Airport Boulevard Don Partndge Education.Bulletin 711, revised March Austin, Texas 78702 Associate Commissioner 1973. (512) 442-7821 Department of Special Education TEX-AN 824-2011 Colitact Person Texas Education Agency Gary Curtis. Director 201 East Eleventh Street Office of Education for the Deal Austin, Texas 78701 Texas Education Agency (512) 475-3501 201 East Eleventh Street Deaf-Blind Project TEX-AN 822-3501 Austin, Texas 78701 (512) 475-3541 TEX-AN 022-3541 Program Organization PNding for this program is Special Project: Family administered through the Department of Special Education. Texas Education Educa ion, Assistance Texas School for the Deaf: Agency. Individual programs are loCally and aining (FEAT) Early-Childhood administered through pitblic schools. Education Program education service centers and private ! agencies. Program Organization -.A!. Services The Texas Education Agency's Department of Special Education is Prpgram Organization The Project actively pursues referrals and provides a wide variety of cooperating with the Region XIV he program is administered by the Education Service Center, Abilene. in . Texas School for the Deaf under the services. It will provide medical diagnosis and treatment, educational implementing the Family Education, Department of Special Education. Texas Assistance and Training (FEAT) Project. Education Agency. . 'diagnosis and programming (both day and residential), and family counseling The Education Service Center will Services and therapy. In addition, it aids families provide management support and Although the Texas School for the in finding and making use of all possible assume primary responsibility for Deaf is primarily'a residential facility for available resources. The Project planning, staff development, fiscal the education of deaf children aged conducts training sessions in all areas of management and evaluation. 6-21. the School recently began a day work with deaf-blind children and Services program for preschool children living in develops materials for the deaf-blind. The Project will develop processes, the Austin vicinity. through cooperative efforts with existing Usinb a total approach to teach Authorization health/educational agencies, for hearing - impaired children, the Program Federal Elementary and Secondary identifying exceptional children who are includes equal emphasis in speech Education Act, Title VI. Parts C and B. not being served at the present time. development, lipreading. reading, The State also provided funds through state allocations. Exceptional siudents are those with -fingerspelling, the language of signs, . physical. mental, or emotional auditory training and writing_ Children Number of Children (Five and Under) handicaps andchildren with language are given opportunities to learn and use Served Last Year or learning disabilities. Parents are all forms of communication. 106 (Fornumber of children served by actively encouraged to participate. - Authorization county, see chart in Appendix.) After a pilot phase in 1974, five project Federal Ed,,cation of the Funds Spent on Children (Five and sites in Gilmer, Stephenville (Hood-Erath Handicapped Act. Title I, and State Under) Last Year Counties), Houston, San Marcos, and General Revenue 3200,000 (estimate) Zapata started Operating in September Nurnberof Children (Five and Under) Admission Requirements 1975. *2'. Served Last Year . Children must have both- visual'and Authorization 18 auditory impairment, the combination Elementary and Secondary Education Funds Spent on Children (Five and preventing them from receiving 'Act, Title'L P.L.89-313. -Under) Last Year appropriate educational services in Number of Children (Five and Under) 329,800 (approximately) either a program for the visually Served Last Year Admission Requirements 34 (estimate) 'Hearing-impaired, preschool children Funds Spent on Children (Five and livinginAustin and surrounding vicinity. Under) Last Ye* $27,006 (estimate)

- 71 Admission Requirements The Center makes no effort to . Exceptional children ages 3-21 duplicate services already available or to Contact Person provide direct, technical services itself. Dop Partridge -It rather mobilizesand coordinates all Associate Commissioner resources, either locally, nearby or Department of Special Education somewhere in the State of Texas, in order to solve the problem. 4 Texas Education Agency 201 East Eleventh Street In June, 1975, the Texas Regional Austin,Texas 78701 4 Resource Center published the results (512)475-3501' of its nationwide survey, Individualized ;TEX-AN 822-3501 Programming for the Severely Multiply - Handicapped: State of the Art 1975. The Wayne Milligan study analyzed data from 150 programs__ Projett Director, FEAT of individualized instruction for the Region XIV Education Service Center handicapped-across the nation. It P.O. Box 3235 recommended a flexible, comprehensive Abilene, Texas 79604 approach Jo; Meeting the needs of the (915) 673-8262 severely multiply-handicapped in the areas of therapy, medicine, family, education, psychology, recreation and social development, fOrallAtilldren with Texas Regional Resource such needs. Center (for Handicapped Auth?rization Children) Education of the Handicapped Act. Title VI, Part C ----- Number of Children (Five and Under) Program Organization Served Last Year 'Texas Education Agency (TEA) 32 s, administers the prograrn within the facilities,of the Southwest Educational Admission Requirements Developmeht Laboratory (SEDL). TEA In behalf of a child, anyone may ask obtained the ori9inal grant from the for the services of the Center', but school Office of Education, U.S. Department of districts, teachers, welfare workers, Health, Education andWelfare. physicianwid parents are the perSons most likely to contact the Center. For Services most emergency situations, a statewide _e One of thirteen such centers across hot line is provided: 1-800-292-2668. IP the nation, the Texas Regional Resource The children served can be from birth Center is set up to organize help for the to 21 years of agp and should be viewed "complex, rare, and inexplicable" child as special handicapped or exceptional who is physically, mentally or "problem" children in cases wherb emotionally handicapped. The Center is ordinary resources for local solution called inaction especially in crisis 4r. have been exhausted, are unknown, or situations or when local resource' - are unavailable. . possibilities have beep exhausted or are unavailable. Contact Person The Center first locates the best 'James A. Tucker, Project Director facilities or specialists nearest the Texas Regional Resource Center problem in order. that a competent Project of Texas Education_Agen4r appraistof the child can be made. After 211 East Seventh-Streit- appraisal; the child's syndrome Austin, Texas 78701 description is fed into the Center's (512) 476=6861 computerivhich Rrovides the name and location of the rld4rest appropriate resources. The Center will then coordinate services between organizations and state pgeqcies in order to find the best solution. Where , local funding is not available, the Center will attempt to find funding at other levels.'The Center then follows up and

.pursues each Case to-Make sure that the . real needs of each child are met.

71. School Breakfast Program Services The program encourage the consumption of milk by school children Program Organization by enabling the local school to provide The Program is administered by the extra or supplemental half -pints of milk School Lunch and Child Nutrition al meals and at other times during the section of theDivision of Administrative school day. Services, Texas Education Agency. Authorization - 4 Reiinbursement is provided local school Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S. districts for each breakfast served to Code, Sec. 1772, 80 Stat. 885) students. Admission Requirements Services All children in school, high school The program provides nutritious, grade and Urider,-are eligible-to=

balanced breakfastseach dayto participate in this program. Application , children. Children from low-income for free milk is made to the local school families are eligible to receive by the parents of each child. Schools breakfasts free of charg'eor at a reduced making applicationfor this program price. must adhere to regulations set forth by Authorization the U.S. Departrrient of Agriculture: Rulet and Regulations, Fedesal Child Nutrition Act of 1966 as . amended, (42 U.S. Coc. Sec. 1779.80 Register, Volume 36, Number.222 dated Stat. 88g). Wednesday, November 17,1971, Title VII, Agriculture, Chapter 2, Part 210.

Admission Requirements 41. Alt.thildren in school. high school /grad%and under. are eligible for participation in this program. Applidation for free or reduced pike National School Lunch and meals is made to the loc.al school by the Child Nutrition Programs parents of each child. Schools making applidation for this program must adhere to regulations set forth by the U.S. Program Organization Department of Agriculture: Rules and This program is.administered by the Regulations, Federal Register. Volume School Lunch and Child Nutrition 36, Number 222. dated Wednesday, section dike Division of Administrative November 17, 1971, Title VII, Agriculture.Services, Texas Education Agency. Chapter 2, Part 210. . Reimbursement is provided to local school districts for each Type A lunch served to students. A Type A lunch, as prescribed bythe U.S. Departnient of Special MilkProgram Agriculture, contains specified amounts of milk, meat or meat substitute, vegetable or fruit, bread, and thargarine, or:butter..4 Program Organization This program is administered by the . Services School Lunch and Child Nutrition, The National School Lunch Program section of the division of Administrative provides nutritious, balanced meals Services, Texas Education Agency. each dayto children. Children from low- Reimbursement is provided to local income families are eligible to receive school diStricts fOr each half-pint of meals free or era reduced price. (For :extra or sOplemental milk served to similar services in child care centers, children. see Child Care Food Program in ttie Federal-Local Programs section.) Authorizatkin National School Lunch Act (42 U.S. ,Code, Sec. 1751 -1760, 1779) as amended. Admission Requirements All children in school,.high school . grade and under, are eligible for -

. ..73 .72 participation in the program. Application There are five types of programs. (1) Authorization for free or reduced price meals is made 'he Horne Economics Pre-employment Authorized under the Texas Education to the focal school by the parents of Laboratory *a, child care program Agency's timed responsibilities for the each child. Schools making application which includes a two-hour classper education of Texans. school day, with extensive participation for this program must adhere to Admission Requirements - in child development laboratories and regulations set forth by the U.t. The publications listeabove are free Child care centers; (2) the Home of Agriculture: Rules an8 to the public on request. There may be a Economics Cooperative Education Regulations. Federal Register. Volume charge for other publications. Audio-- Program which provides one hour per 36. Number 222. daTed Wednesday., visual equipment may be checked out to day of classwork at sclwol and fifteen November 17.1971. Title VII. Agriculture, state agency personnel and teachers for hours per week of actual on-the-job Chapter 2. Part 210. specified periods, training in a child dexelopment Contact Person . -laboratory or child Care center; (3) the Contact Persons For more information on the School Homemaking-Child Development Don Neumann Lunch. Special Milk or School Breakfast semester course for juniors and seniors. Publications Programs in Texas Public Schools. -a concentrated study program which (512) 475-2268 contact: provides students with basic knowledge TEX-AN 822 -2268 Charles A. Cole. Program Director about the devplopment and care of Virginia Cutter School Lunch and Child Nutrition young children; (4) the Comprehensive Dissemination Programs 'Homemaking Education Program, three- (512) 4755601 TexasEducation Agency to six-week course offered to students, TEX-AN822-5601 201 East Eleventh Street grades 9-12, giving a general study of Dan Urban Austin. Texas 78701 child development; (5) child Resource Center (512) 475-4363 development and parent education (512) 475-3468 TEX-AN 822-4363 courses offered to community'adults. TEX-AN 822-3468 Day Care Centers. Institutions. and ' Authorization 'Texas Education Agency Nonprofit Private Schools contact. Foubdahon School Program and Part 201 East Elezyffh Street Gene Good F, Vocational Education Amendments of , Austin, Texas 78701 Director of Child Nutrition Programs 1968. Public Law 90-576. as amended. U.S. Departmeht of Agriculture r Admission Requirements Food and Nutrition Service All high school students and 1100 Dbmmerce Street Community adults.may take these Dallas,..T.elas 75202 courses where available. The courses (214) 749-2391 are electives. Contact Person Elizabeth F. Smith Vocational Homemaking Director. Homemaking Education Education Programs Divisioriof Octsvpational Education and TechnologY Texas Education Agency Program Organization 201 East Eleventh Street The program is administered by the Austin, Texas 78701 Division of Occupational Education and (512) 475-3818 Technology. Texas Education Agency. TEX-AN 822-3818 Services Information about child grov;th and Public Information developmentis provided in homemaking education programs in public high schools. High school youth and Program Organization 0 community adults thus can be better Information materials are available prepared to care for and guide the from the Texas Education Agency development of their own children if and through the Publidations Office,ttie when the time comes. The programs Dissemination Division, and the also give training for future employment, Resource Center. in public and private child care Services C programs. Publicationi include "Kindergarten: tit Happy Open Door to School," "Child Migrant Program," and "A Guide for the education of Young Children." The Resource Center lends audio-visual 0 equipment. .

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Federal agencies administer a The center will serve agencies a number of public programs for community groups in a five-state children underage 6 in Texas. With area with training and technical the exception of the Extension assistance in identifying, treating Service,Which receives funds from and preventing child abuse and federal, state and local sources, the neglect. ,progjims appearing in this section The U.S. Department of are those in which funds flow directlyAgriculture administers the Child from federal to local agencies. Care Food Program and Nonfood The U.S. Department of Health, Assistance Program to nonprofit Education and Welfare (DHEW) child-carmg facilities. The funds a variety of projects affecting Agriculture Departrnent's . young children, in addition' to Head educational arm, the Extension Start (which is described in the Service, is a partner with the State's section on the Texas Department of land-grant university (Texas A&M COmmunity Affairs). DHEW's Office ofUniversity) and the counties of Texas Education provides funds to seven in providing educational programs Texas school districts for Follow about family living. Through, a program which continues TwO independent executive Head Start enrichment activities into agencies, ACTION and the Small public School. 9)-IEW's Office of Business Administration, also Human Development provides administer programs affecting young operating and research funds to children in Texas. ACTION, which is three Parent-Child Development . known more popularly perhaps for Centers (PCDC) in the nation, one of its Peace Corps program, which is in Houston. The focus of administers the Foster Grandparents PCDC is training parents to be better Program, which makes use of the teachers of their own young child-caringraients of the elderly. children. Also, DHEW's National The Small Business Administration Center on Child Abuse and Neglect provides loans to persons Wishing to has given funds to The University of establish small businesses, which Texas Graduate School of Social includes child care centers. Work for a regional resource center.

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4 Fo(tir Through Pr ram Contact Person Authorization J. L Akridge, Condultant Federal Doniestic Volunteer Service .Divisjon of Program Funds Act of 1973, Title!! Program Organization Management Funds Spent on Children (Five Rd Through school year 1974-75, .Texas Education Age0cY Under) Last Year individual school districts submitted 201 East Eleventh Street An age breakdown on children served proposals to and were given grants Austin, Texas 78701 - was not available, ban total of selectively by the Office of Education, (512) 475-3371 S1,414,569 was spent on Foster U.S. Department of Health, Education TEX-AN 822-3371 Grandparent Projects in Texas last year and Welfare, Washington, D.C. from federal funding. An additional Services S212,162 in non-federal contributions, was provided by the local institutions, Texas had seven Fatiow Through Foster Grandparents projects in 1974-75, more than any other the community or the State.. state in the nation. Follow Through Eligibility Requirements projects focus on kindergarten or Children served must be in health, Program Organization elementary school children who education and welfare institutional previously have been enrolled in Head Public or private, nonprofit settings. Foster Grandparents must be ' brganizations submit proposals to and Start or similar programs. The purpose . age 60 or over, with incomes within are selectively given grants by Region of the Program is to continue federal poverty income guidelines. educational enrichment for children VI, ACTION, Dallas. ACTION from low-income families. Like Head administers the program. Contact Person Robert Hernandez Start. the Program provides Services State Progkam Director for Texas comprehensive child development Purpose of the program is twofold. ACTION services and at the same time stresses One is to employ elderly, low-income Andre Hall parent participation, which aids in the persons on a part-time-basis, involving 3001 South Congress development of the child's full potential. them in community activity again by Austin, Texas 78704 Parents learn how to cooperate and engeging their time.ind talents. Th6 (512) 397-5172 support the program by continuing to other is to provide attention, care and teach their children at home, reinforcing love to. lonely, abandoned, neglected, ill, and amplifying the child's education. injured, or mentally retarded children in Authorization institutions by supplementing the Parent-Child Development services provided by these institutions. A;cleral Head Start, Economic Center (Houston) Opportunity and Community Partnership The elderly persons are hiredlrom Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-644) outside the institutionsto come arid care for the children on aone-to-one basis for Number of.Children (Five and Under) half a day, five days a week. Three Program Organization Served Last Year 0 grantees operated nine sites in fiscal The Office of Human Development, 298 (:approximately) year 1976. Seven of these projects - U.S. Department of Health, Education Funds Spent on Children (Five and operated programs in state schools. In and Welfare, Washington, D.C., provides , Under) Last Year Austin, Abilene, Corptis ehristi, Denton, research grants to three Parent-Child S188,182 (approximately) Lubbock, Lufkin, and Mexia. The other Development Centers (PCDC) in the 'Admission Requirements two were programs for hospitalized nation, one of which is in Houston. At least 50 percent of the children children in Harris and Bexar County Services selected for Follow,Through must be hospitals. - The goal of the Houston Center is to graduates of a kindergarten program or develop and demqnstrate ways to enable Head Start; their parents' income must patents to help their children achieve fall within the federal poverty income the fullest intellectual, social and guidelines. physicaj development possible. The program serves Mexican- Ameridan families; bilingual-bicultural activities are emphasized. ,' The program focuses on the parents, 1riAarily the mother, and combines home visitwnd center activities over e two -yeaeriod, starting when the child

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< . . explores thirty -one topics inthiki Regional Resource Center on development with the.mother. The entire family takes part in family workshops, .. -Child-AbUse and Neglect where themes such as communication, decision - making, role relationships and organization of parent groups are Program Organization The U.S. Department of Health, explored. The second year, the mother Education and Welfare's National attendshomesnanagement and child Center on Child Abuse and Neglect development classes; the child, a providet a three-year grant to The nursery school, with times for mother University of Texas Graduate School of ,... and child to interact together. Fat I Social Work for a regional resource and mother attend evening discuion center to servee five-state area: Texas, meetings on topics such as budgeting, gredir arid communityiesources. New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. -Certain couples, selected by the arents,ents, servesee on the Parents Advisory Servides ncil. . The Center is an information Ch ren also receive medical clearinghouse for training and technical examinations arid, if necessary, referrals assistance services for agencies and for treatment. . community groups concerned with Authorization identifying, treating and preventing child abuse and neglect. Federal Head Start, Economic Working with the UT-Austin Graduate . Opportunity and Community Partnership school of Social Work in the legal and Act of 1974. . medical aspects of the child abuse Number of Children (Five and Under) problerhare the UT-Austin Law School Served Last Year and the UT Medical Branch at 85 (1-3 years old) Galveston. Funds Spent on Children (Five and Authorization Under) Last YEiar Child Abuse Prevention and $300,000 Treatment Act, as amended, Public Law Admission Requirements 93-247. The Houston Center serves low- Funds Spent on Children (Five and income, Mexican-American families Under) Last Year from a specified geographical area of $250,000 beginning July 1, 1975 for Houston. A family enters the program training services that will affect abused when the child is 1 year old. children under 18. Contact Person Contact Person RebeccaHines, Director Donna Scott, M.S.W., Project Director Parent-Child.Developm. cant Centel Regional Resource Center 'on Child 205 North Delmar Abuse and Neglect Houston, Texas 77011 Graduate School of Social Work (713) 928-2222 The University of Texas Austin, Texas 78712 (512) 471-4067

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Small Business Loans $nd Admission, Requirements Economic Opportune loans For Small Business Loans: The for.Small Businesses business must be small, independently owned and operated', not dominant in its field; employment may not be in excess of 250; retail and service revenues Program Organization cannot be over 52.000,000. The business . Persons wishing to start a child care must be.organized for profit and unable center or other small business for profit to obtain .credit elsewhere on a apply to local Small Business . reasonable basis. Administration (SBA) offices in Corpus For Economic Opportunity Loans: . Christi, Dallas, El peso, Harlingen, Applicants must be persons with Icy., Houston, Lubbock, Marshall or Saki" incomes qr those who, due to social or Antonio. economic disadvantage, have been Economically disadvantaged persons denied the opportunity to acquire in need of fundsto establish, expand or *adequate business financing through strengthen a small business for profit. normal lending channels on reasonable such as a child care center, apply to the terms. same offices. For either loan: The business to be Services financed excludes gambling There are two types of loans for either establishments, communications media. the Small Business Loan or the nonprofit enterprises, property Economic Opportunity Loan. 1) direct speculation, lending or investment loans. 2) those which are obtained enterprises. and financing real property through a bank. with SBA guaranteeing held for sale or investment At times the loan.: direct loans may not be available due to For the Small Business Loan: When federal fiscal restrictions. financing is not available elsewhere on a Contact Person reasonable basis, SBA may loan up to If the local SBA office is unknown, 5100.001) directly or can guarantee a Regional SBA in Dallas can be bank loan up to 90 percent or $350,000, contacted to obtain the address of the whichever is less, to a small firm. The nearest office: loan can bused to construct, expand or convert facilities: to ptirchase Small Business Administration building equipment or materials; or to Region 6 supply working capital. 1720 Regal Row For the Economic Opportunity Loan: Suite 230 To qualified persons, SBA sometimes Dallas, Texas 75235 can provide direct loans or can (214) 749-2531 guarantee bank loans up to S50,000 for the establishment, preservation or strengthening of small businesses. SBA can also provide advisory services and Child Care Food Program, counseling for such businesses. Summer Food Service Authorization Prograr, and Nonfood Small Business Loans: Small BusinessAssistance (Food Equipment) Act of 1953, as amended. -Economic Opportunity Loans: Head Program Start, Economic Opportunity and Community Partnership Act of 1974, P.L.' 93-644. Program Organization Nonprofit and tax exempt child care centers and other institutions apply to and are selectively given assistance through the federal Department of Agriculture, Region V, panes. Services Qualifying, non-residential institutions (day care centers, family day homes, Head Start centers, Home Start programs, settlement houses, recreation centers, and summer camps) can be - reimbursed for food purchased for

7 8 children ub to three complete meals and County Extension Agents, Extension home economics programs two supplemental meals daily professional educators in 253 counties, are provided through 414 and youth Reimbursements are made at a rate conduct informateducationalprograms projects for youngsters 9 to 19 years of based on family size and income based on specific problems identified by, age. These projects teach child Additional fundsrWiustified. are broadly representative county leaders. development, personality development, available to assist the same institutions (County Program Building CoOmmittees), foods and nutrition, health, money to buy or rent necessary equipment to leaders who partiCipate in both the management and consumer education, enable them to establish, maintain and planning4and implementation of the housing and a variety of other subjects expand food service Only essential programs. They are assisted by oItnterest to young persons._ equipment not permanently installed Extension Ser'vice aubject-mtler. , --A:iiThffilat o n . far fhe storing, preparation and serving specialists. of food to children can be purchased. ' Federal Smith-Lever Act of 1914, as Services accepted by the Texas Legislature in Authorization Texas Extension home economics . 1915, House Concurrent Resolution 2, Child Nutrition Act of 1966, as programs focus on six areas which serve Admission Requirements : amended. as guides to developing, implementing. All educational programs and and evaluating family living programs. Number of Children (Five and Under) activities of the Texas Agricultural These areas are: family stability, family Served Last Year Extension Service are available free to health and protection, managing family 20.000 (average daily participation any individual who wishes to take part. resources, family clothing, the housing estimate for Child Care Food Program) Programs are designed to meet a wide environment. and community Funds Spent on Children (Five and variety of needs. environment and leadership. Under) Last Year Four areas of programming directly Contact Persons 12,400,000 (estimate for Child Care affect Texas children. parent education, Family Life Education Specialists Food Program) pre-parenting education; the Expanded Roberta Dix Admission Requirements Nutrition Program, and 4-H and youth Dorothy Taylor The institution must be nonprofit and . projects. Room 3, (713) 845-7227 tax exempt, and meet federal or State Parent education is one focal point for Ilene C. Miller licensing requirements. Extension Service family life educational Room 308, (713) 845-1146 New regulations are being developed , programming. Childgrowth and Diane Welch and will be effectiye July 1,1976. development, prenatal care.and parent- Education for Parenting child relationships are typical topics for Contact Person , Room 312 (713) 845-4241 Gene Good county short courses, seminarsan& Private Schools and Institutions correspondence courses. Texas Agricultural Extension Service Child Nutrition Program Pre-parenting education for teenagers' . Texas A&M University USDA, Food and Nutrition Service is the purpose of the Teens Explore System Administration Building 1.100 Commerce Street Parent Education (TEPE) project. The College Statiop, Teids 77843 Dallat, Texas 75200 TEPE project involves teens and young (214) 749-3551 adults in learning about child growth and development and the role of parents and family in a child's life. Informal group discussion with adult leaders is Texas Agricultural Extension the basic format. The Expanded Nutrition Program Service Family Programs (ENP) is a new approach to malnutrition problems among low-income, disadvantaged families. It is geared to Program Organization both youth and adults. Texas has 45 The Texas Agricultural Extension Expanded Nutrition Program units Service, a part of The Texas A&M employing 425 program aides and University System, is authorized by law assistants. In fiscal year ending June 30, to conduCt statewide Aucational 1975, ENP aides worked with 43,759 programs in agriculture, home enrolled homemakers representing 'economics and related subjects. The 248,112 family members with limited agency is supported by three levels of income. Approximately 24,105 youth. were involved in the ENP-youth government federal, state and county. program. Aides are trained and supervised by County Extension Agents p teach nutrition information, food selection and buying, food preparation. meal planning, food storage and sanitation,

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Table of Contents :. ___. ,...... Introduction. v 83 Action for Cilitdren's Television 84- del American Academy of Pediatrics, Texas Chapter 84 American Association of University Women, Texas Division 84 American Diabetes Association, North and South Texas Affiliates 84 American Lung Association of Texas 84 4. American, Psychiatric Association, Texas District Branch -695 American Red Cross, Texas Chapters 85 American Sodiety for Psycho-Prophylaxis in Obstetrics 85 , Association. for. Gifted Educatiob 85 The Association of Junior Leagues 86 Bast Gegeral Convention of Tekaa 86 , - B'nai B'rith Women . 86 ° Center for Multiple Handicapped Children , 1-r 87 1 o ,Child Welfare League, Texas Agencies 87 Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Southwest 87 ,.. Church Women UnitedAf Texas 87 -Dallas Services for Visiia4 Impaired Children' 87 D lta Kappa barn'ma, Horior. Society for Worhen Educators :- ... 88 e Easter Seal SdclE4 fOf Crippled Cli.ildren and Adults in Texas 88, Fely:::Service Asaociatirn. of America, Texas Agencies 88 Inteihaticinaf.Childbirth Education Assoetkion..,... , 88 , La Ledhe-.., League 'of Texas' ', . i , ,.' 88 .-- .t. fie Leagua bfWomen Voters of Texas...: .:-,:ir.,..... i';.-- 89. Leukemia Society of America .. -4, 89 LiqensedVocational Nursest AssociatiOff bf Tex* 49 March olDimes in Texas.... , '89 ...... , Muscular Dystr,ophy Association, Inc 90 National Association of Child Care AdminiStrators 90

National Association of Social Workers, Inc., Texas Chapter....'.. 90".- .. .. . National Council oJewish Women , e 91 Patents Anonymous 1, r 91 - --- Pgehte Without Partners. 91 Planned Parenthood-World Population, Texas Affiliates' - 92 Sickle Cell Anemia Association of Texas 92 Southwest Educational Development Laboratory., 92, - . 82 81 .- , . . - .- a State Bar of :Texas . _ rt 92 Texas Academy of Family Physicians. - '93 I TexasAssdciafion for Childhood EduOation , 93 . Texas Assilciation for Children with Learning Disabilities 93 Texas A:ssociatioli.for the Education of GiftecksChildren *.94 . Texasassociationfor the Educition of-Young Children 94 Texas Association for'Health, Physical Education and Recreation 94 Texas Associatiofor Mental Health .. 94 Texas Associati.efn for Retarderf Citizent ' 95 TexastAssociation for Services to Children 95 _Texas Agociation Qf Child Care Workers, Inc .,95 Texas Association of the Deaf .. Texas,Association of Obstetricianss and Gynecologists . 196 Texas Association of School Administrators , ' 95 I", Texas Association-of School Boards . :=-1 '96 Texas Chiropractic Association' . 96 l'exas Child Care '76 . , 96% Texas Civil Lit:lefties Onion , 96 Texas Conference of Chu:, ' # . 96 , . Texas,Congress of Parents and Teachers (Texas PT 97 . Texas Council for Early *Childh9od Education , 97 Texas,Councif for Exceptional Children .e. 97 *.: Texas Council on Family Relations 98 ,_ Texas Cystic Fibrosis Chapters ,, 98 41 Texas Dental Association .%. .ft.' . .t 98 * , . .- Texas Derrriatologiaal Society 99 Texas Elementary, Kindergarten and Nursery Educators' 99 Texas Elempntany Principals and Supervisors Association 99 , Texas Federation of Women's Clubs . . 99 .. a Texas Homegconomics Association 99 ', Texas Hospital Association 4. '99 Texas League for Nursing .. , 100 Texas Licensed Child Care Associatioh 100 -. Texas Medical Association , , 100 ..*Texas Migrant Qounail, Inc ._- . ... -V TexasNurses Association - ,101 Texas 00halmological Association . ...101 ,Texas Optometric Aspciation 101 Texas Optometric Association AuxiAry 4..., .1Qt ?Texas Orthopedic" Askciation 02 Texas Ottlaryngological Associatiori 102 Texas Pediatric Socjety 102 Texas 'Psychological Association f 102

'Texas Public Health Atsopiqtion e 103 -. Texas Sifety Association ,.- 103 Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children . 103 . . Texas Society for the Pfevention.of Blindness ,*"'',, . 103 , Texas Society of Child Psychiatry -" . . '' 103 Texas Speech and Hearing Association , 104 ,. ,. Texas State ifeac'lleca Association , 194- .. 4 , ,.. Texas Worhen'al5olitical Caucus- . ... 104 ."--- _United Cerebral Palsy of TexaS, inc. 1-0 ' 'United Way organizations andeXas UnitedComMunity Services..:_195 4 - 41c4 UniVersity of Texas at Dallas, Gallia!' Centel* for,Comniunicatiortbisorders 105, Vocational Hovemaking Teachers Association of Texas 106 s Volunteers for Vision, Inc: '' ,.. ,. ., " . ,106 a Wogian'suxiijary to the TeZas Mecitoat Associat4on. - .,_106 Young Womerfs dhristian )!ssOciatisipLin Texas , " 10i:',-'

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A number of private organizations For several of the organizations 4arly childhood education through are taking stock in Texas" and listedrhere, there is only thename of home economic or education "investing in children" by offeringa the organization along with a4 departments, have lab schools variety of services to chi Idren.and "Contact Person", and ao address' provide training fdr families throughout the State PrivateSome of these organizations provideiprospfctive chitd care personnej organizations are those charitable, services indirectly through Ando h i aitafe for parentitBecause educational feligious, health and professional rneThbership. Sothe are tlieftand other local groups are not professional groups, most of which nOwArbups.p. the beginniq stages part op stale..nelw&R, they are.not . are supported by voluntary of organization. For others, only irpluded in this section of statewide contributions and membership fees. limited information was obtainable 'orgInizattone.,, , Those involved with children's as to whet services are Pirovided. TheEarly Childhood Development 'programs in community should not All theorganizations listed here Division of the Texhs tippes:tment of overlook these organizatibhs asa are those wtiich are at least Community affairs wishes to resource for meeting the needs 94, statewide in scope.,Some are. acknoirledgi all these local groups ' children and families Private' ' 'affiliated with national prganizationsand commend the werk they do for -organizatipns especiallythve : and many have local chapters in . children. - ; child-interested groups list& in this j Texas towns and cities. The Texas Departmenfoi Mental section, may arrahge for services ; Not included in this section are Health.and Mental .13etaidation_ be given to children, offer volunlaer thOse local organizations parlicu ler. publishes a directory of mental staff, or share equipment and to one community. A few religious health and mental retardation' fadilities Informatiop about an denominations are included here, '-servicesfor*.children andadults in. otmization can help may, burothers, unlisted, also provide Texas..Ite State Department Of 'oWited thiough the "Cont t childcare or religious training for Public.Welfare publiShes the :Person" listed with the prograrn,or 4 young children.. .Directory-if Child Welfare . WhrOUgh, cal chapter, if the bollages and universities offer Resources, whicb lists such facilities rgani3atio aso'ne in the courses fn child development and . as homes for unwedothers, e '. co,mrittinityc licensed agencies pla ing childrpri . foradoption,'and spa 'al' reSide'nttar c / , - regources.for handic The dirbctories ar the two acendies . ,. .14 \1 , 84 J

4, Actibn for Children's Through a grant from the federal Contact Person Tetevision Office of Economic Opportunity in 1973, Mrs. James Maxwell, President the Chapter organized the Maverick 610Mesita . County Child Health Care Center in El Past), TeXas 79902 Sencices Eagle Pass. The program hasiontinued (915) 532-3381 Action for Childred's Television (ACT)with local and federal funding. The clinic is a national, nonprofit, educational provides sdreeni and immunization organization of parents and programs, elective ealth assessments, professionals dedicated to quality referral and patient ollowup, school American Diabetes television for children without health services, identification of children Association North and cOmmercmlism. with learningAfisabilities, surplus food ACT educates parents and others, distribution, visitation of mothers with SouthTetrasAffiliates - involved with children about television's newborn infants and health education, . -sr effects on children; attempts to. including information about family persuade broadcasters and advertisers planning, drugs, smoking and venereal Services to providep.rogramming of the highest disease: The purposes of the two affiliates of possible qu'ality for children of different the American Diabetes Association are Number of Children Wive and tinder; ages, and advocates the substitution of to help diabetics better understand their Served Last Year a new system of financial support for condition, promote a free exchange of Children throughout Texas are'served television, including underwriting and knowledge among physicians and other directly by individual pediatncians. The public funding. professionals, and improve the MavericWCounty Health Center served The national organrzahon has standards of treatment of diabetes approximately 1.000 this past year. conducted-studies, established a mellitus. National Resource Center on crilidren andFunds Spent on Children (Five and The organizations also promote the media for use by educators and kh Under) Last Year research and disseminate information, broadcasters, sponsored three national $100.000 including the booklet, "An Instructional conferences on children and televisien, Funding Aid on Juvenile Diabetes Mellitus." Some chapters (local groups) sponsor and spearheadeda successful , Amencelcademy of Pediatrics local projects for children. The Dallas campaign to eliminate vitamin (AAP); and qther sources, federal and chapter, for example, conducts day .commercials from children's programs. local At the local level. .resource camps forpreschool diabetics and Chairpersons spe& to interested groups Eligibility Requirements provides instruction and counseling to about ACT and distribute informational Children applying to the Health Center children under 18 through its Diabetes (Herat titre. ; must be under 18; no fee is charged for and Youth Committee. services. . Fupding Funding ,Membership contributions and Contact Person Membership dues and contributions foundation grants William S. Conkling, M.D., Chairman Contact Persons Texas Chapter, American Academy Contact Persons , North Texas Diabetes Affiliate , of Pediatrics s Carol Thompson, Resource Chairman (Dallas, Fort Worth and Midland) Box 311 ;Action fgr Children's Television Phil Davis, Executive Director Navasota, Texas 77868 12031 Field Wood Lane 5415 Maple Avenue, Suite 210, (713) 825-7141 Dallas, Texas 75235 Dallas, Texas 75234 4.6 (214)233-0366 (214) 638-5400

Kath;Guerra,fiesource Chairman'_--- South Texas Diabetes Affiliate Action for Cluldren:sTelevision `American Association of (Capital Area, Coastal Bend, 248 East Summit Univpisity Women, Texas Galveston County, Golden Triangle, SakAntonio, Texas-78212 Division Houston, San Antonio, Waco end (512)732-2058-:". Golden Crescent Chapters) Earl Palmer, Executive Director Services P.O. Box 12946 American Association-of University Austin, Texas 78711 American Academy of Women- is ap organization of education. (512) 837-1712 ----:Pediatrics, Texas Chapter Its 102 local branches provide krious services for children under 6. At the last state convention, the 'organization adopted a statement Services American Lung Associatiori . . supporting the provision and expansion. The Texas Chapterof the American of quality day care, providing basic of Texas Academy of Pediatrics works to further material and educational needs to the welfareof skiltiren through .childrenhOoverti, and providing family , advocacy, public information, lobbying', Services planning and career education 'and liaison with the Texas Medical Formerly the National Tuberculosis programs for parents of poverty and Respiratory Disease Asso6iation, Association and the 'texas Pediatric 1 children. %, the gmerican Lun Association works to Society. Lung

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: IP prevent and control rung disease. infant care courses toaxi3ectant The Association conducts seminars parents, and many have learn-togwim and workshops for physiciansquirses. programs for children 4,5 and 6 years inhalation therapists and other health old; - - workeri; invests in research; organizes. Funding "Stop Smoking".clinics in communities Contributions; OhitedWay. and "Don't Start Smoking" activities in schools; alerts the public to the threat of Eligibility *Crirements lung disease through pamphlets, films, Children oftterents sign tip or broadcasts and speakers; and Works C lagsas. lbei'a are no-course fees except with other _organizations tocombat air pool fees charged try swimming pool pollution. - Local chapters are in Amarillo, PPillact,Teersons Beauniont, Corpus Chriqti, %Vas, El ,George k Hill, Manager_ Paso, Fort Worth, Harlingen, Houston, , Red Cross On. Lubbock, San Angelo, San Antonio, antat Ch apter Temple, and Tyler. ,. Fundtig 'Austin, Texas 78767 Conlributions through Christmas Seal (512)928 -4271 appeal each year. American Red'Crbss Contact Perion : Tarrant County Chapter' Peggy Boyd, Managing Director' P.O. Box 12406 American Lung AsscciatiOn. of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas 76116- 2406 Manor Road (847)732 -4491 /924 -4231 Austin, Texas 78722 : American RedCross (512) 478-7i31 , Dallas County Chapter

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American Psychiatric, Amerioair Fled Cross.

Association , Houston- Harris County Chapter 2006 Smith Street Houston, Texas 77002

Contact Person . (713)227-1151 Thomas H. Allison, M.D., President', -- Texas District Brandh American Psychiatric Association 1801 'North Lamar Ameridan Society for Austin, Texas 78701 Psycho-Prophylaxis in (512) 477 -6704 Ext. 54 Obstetrics (APO) a a. American Red Cross Contact Person Sharron Humenick, R.N. Texas Chapters Regional Coordinator American Society for Psycho- Prophylaxis in Obstetrics Services 3504 McCarty Lane The American RiaCross acts as a Austin, Texag 78749 medium of voluntary relief and (02)471-4936 communication between the American people and their armed forges, It carries on a system of national and international relief to prevent and mitigate suffering Association for Gifted caused by disasters. It teaches specialized safety and other courses. Education 'a Most of its dOties,are performed by volunteers. Services The organization has four regional ' , divisions within the State and over 200 Association for Gift0 Education fAGE') chapters. Almost ail-chapters t ark is a npoprofit, advocacy Organization for the gifted andtalented dhildrOn of . Texds. it vkir,ks witp,individual,, and /7 / - , , 8'6 85/ -"/ '/%/ ;,/ / talents of all children whereverOOSsibie,.!,.' dissemirtates.information gifted' .110 .0sbS14:0-0410140.; teagties.- children, andsUpportStegiStalidst- ' favoring the gifted'aadtafernatik' '4 '.'(Teka.NrAalle4;PISlite44., , There are moretliair4,00.theinberssif * ' AIPArna) AGEiniheState:parent'steachers, ". OakWood.ToWers.Suirla49.7%; school adminiab'etitire. others iota: Halligfeet education and child development-fields, . DeliaS;TOes 9- arki other interested persOns, q14&284(44k.' .1'.1:4 Association for Gifted EauCatiOn has a . . ,, : newsletter Called AGE 1t sponsors a ' statewide conference on gifted and talented children in March each Yeal ' .- ..Baptist'Oeneral'Convention . :Funding - Membership tees ofTexas. Cor6ct Person *- Services' Carrot -L4pekhart, PrOdehl A Association for Gifted ii TheBaprist General Convention of Texas offers-consultant services to (512)471:53:19. , Dr. RoberitillIrjOn' ;. Southern Baptist chtirches on the - beginning and administration of child Executiveirectpr care and day care centers. Materials Assotiatiqni6r.dYteli E:dtlgetion entitled "Hckv to Begin"^aS 'Special Esluoictilin'AdiraniShatinn "Curriculum Planning" are also. Edusation5404008. provided. Two regional workshops on The.t.inivereitioftexasAustin this subject are held each year under Austin, Texas /6712 convention auspices. tam (512) 471 Fuhding Individual churdh contributions Contact Perions The,AisooiatiOn Karl Bozeman, Consultant of Junior Leaques Lloyd Henderson, Consultant . Baptist General Convention of Texas 406 Baptist Building Services Dallas, Texas 75201 'Junior Leagues across thaState (214) 741 -1991 .provide m,any services for young children.Speciffc information on their programs for youngchildren may be obtained from-the Seventeen Leagues: B'nai B'rith Women Abilene A arillo, Austiri,Beaumont, Corpu Chris i, Dallas,"Eff asp, Fort Worth,aloe on, Ho usiOn , Lubbock, Services. Midland, Angelo,San-Antonio, An international volunteer service Tyler, Waco, and WtChitaFilla, organization, lirriai B'rith WoMen The national ASsociation;Including provides a number of services to young Texas, has embarked on a foiirzyear children through loca(pr9jects. Local child advoca,cyprogrambalied7for 'activities incitide Operation Stqrk, Children's Sake,LAwareness:, . prenatal care iiroggani el5erated in Advocacy and Action." Its aim Is tp bringcpnionction wittttty4Mqon of,D kyles: about improyeMent 'anacharge services forChildrehltep*laWinitte tef".46iShit;Ohcktfisctiql,dio n ,pfAhoes to areasOf health, edticationofilid d,i#41Yet4ged,O,ungitils.Op'uplio, and negiebt, day care, ancObater',.60r4/,','' piiihficfai?utefid,other and adoption: E achloCal Organizeglii.f issues; iyeacreeninrOgrarns.g-p .wilt survey 160'al nee idS. Arai ad%rpc p,liicactetttlfrdii'gh the publiC / and rreeda-med9r4ftnoteyildpiation.., :andpregranaticin,of Material, tor , program wefollOw. / .teachiriiniinclicappedihataigsteritO, , priding / Oarelakternabbreai: IndiyidualoOor(Vtitionef.

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J..'0..4, Local chapters are in Austin. Dallas. ElChild Welfare Ledgue of Church Women United Paso, Fort Worth. Galveston, Houston. San Antonio, and Texarkana. America, Texas Agencies in Texas Contact Person Mrs. Marvin Green, Regional Director.Services Services B'crai B'rith Women A nationwide orgallization concerned Church y6men United in Texas is part 3837 Bellaire Boulevard with the welfare of children, the Child of a national, ecumenical organization, Room 256 Welfare League issues standards for composed of Teptesentativesirom Houston. Texas 77025 adoption services, foster care, protectiveProtestant, Roman-Catholic and (713) 667-3608 services, homemaker servioe, day care, Orthodox churches and other groups social work and services to unmarried (such as the Salvation Army). Local units J parents. The League publishes a' engage in such projects as improving Center for Multiple monthly research journal and the quality of life, migrant ministries, specialized literature for social workers child development programs, citizen Handicapped Children and counselors. areness of candidates and issues, Services of Texas Agencies eid adjustment of women ex:offenders. Services accredited by the League include The emphasis for 1976-77 is "The The Center for Multiple Handicapped adoptions. foster boarding hOme care, Individual Chili:14n the Cbmmunity-. Children is a private, nonprofit agency seftvicesto anmarried parents Local community efforts may be directed serving visually impaired and multiple - hopethaker services and counseling toward juvenile justice, education handicapped children below age 21. TheFunding reforms, improved health delivery,. organization, chartered .n 1973, is a United 'Fund,lees for senoces. school breakfast programs, welfare merger of the Children's Division of the contributions . adjustments, rights of children, Lighthouse for the Blind and the Deaf- increased child care facilities, Contact Person Blind Project. It provides diagnostic recreational facilities, food supplement Ridhard Standifer, Executive Directoe: evaluation, medical ref6rrals, and - programs, prenatal care and support of Child and Family Service comprehensive educational services, as improved public housing. 419 West Sixth Street well as counseling for pardpts. Contact Person , Austin, Texas 78701 There are three basic program (512) 478-1648 Mrs. Gerald N. McAllister . divisions: an infant stimulation program Chuichpomen United in Texas for children below 3; a preschool See Directgry section for local listings.' 175 Primrose program emphasizing preacademic and San Antonio, Texas 78209 self -help skills; and a school age 4's program emphasizing both academic work and prevocational training. Christian Church (Disciples lndirect services include training for Christ) in the Southwest Dallas Seriticeisfor Visually professional persons and research. A , , Impaired Chitttrift, cu rreneresearch pr9ject involves the t effects of a mother's misuse of dru:gi on Services - - her child. _ ---.The Christian Church provides 'Sen./ices Number of Children (Five and Under)' training opportunity for a vacietyof Dallas SdrvLces for- :Visually impaired -- Served Last Year. _ volunteers and professionalswf ro work_.Childreri,tinc. serves blind and visually:: (estimate) with children. Educationaterifia'es.foi-- - imbaiced children from birth through the Fun preschool children are also provided college jfea;i,:and,their parents. thr-Ough church schools; weekday 4:: Co tributions, UnitedFund; federal SpecilicserOcesincludp a mothers kiriderg artens, day cal'aaenters and. and state sources. F harged for - andinfa'n i'_olass; two child nursery schools In sornroaSeaparental , services are based on ability to pay, ,desrelopm nt classes for children 2 to 6 counseling is provided*0.,the, - yearabf, gro Eligibility Requirementi regOlar adult eddcational prewirarnSof _ .farni-heco ,nseling; orientation an Children must be-under age21 and -the churcifea;-----_:: -- wining; consultation to -.must -have more than one handiCaPOr tie? -sebbotswhere filind children are- yistr Ily impaired: - 4 Denornin?Tfal ent?ifled: Braille reading and Contact Persons 'ContaCIPersiin,. --";` - ,,trainitig; add Braining textbooks for-ftie James E. Kean, Director Texas Edbaatiorl Agency. RichardMcCreary frtsscialata OeCbtiiteti,.;.foist -Coordinator orOlinical Children most be visuallyimpaRe_ci-Oi Handicapped .?Eiost:i.:00;6-01e44iiim- Deat,blind era not Children ` F_OttWOrthrreidStog_ Atisisentsot Datiqs.Coyyq'Ore;gitien 3602 West Dallas (8'174'9264e firgk,priority," ,Houston. Texas 77019,7, - ;"4 - - : -- (713) 529-031 - ..; "4.110,infi< "1 4 tc4 utigns

ri Contact Person FamilY Service Association conferences and workshops on Clark H. Corliss, Executive Director of America childbirth, maternity and child care; and Dallas Services,for Visually Impaired Texas Agencies provides a wide range of informational Children. , films, literature, traveling exhibits, bogk 3802 Cole Avenue displays, and newsletters; and often Dallas, Texas 75204 provides speakerito interested.gro ups. (214) 526-8901 Services A nationwide organization which sets Funding standards and accredits organizations ContributiOns, membership fees and providing social services for families, the sale of literature Delta Kappa GaMma, Family Service Association of America Eligibility Requirements emphaslies strong family life as the There are membership fees for Honor Society for Women basis for community survival. members of ICEA. A fee 4S normally Educators There are a number of Irma member charged expectant parents for prepared organizations in Texas. Local childbirth classes, but the fee varies organizations offer individual and group depending on the locale and teacher, Contact Person counseling to help overcome family and in cases of low-income families, the Phyllis Ellis. Executive Secretary difficulties, children's social and fee may be waived. Delta Kappa Gamma emotional problems, marital conflict, Contact Person 2919 Haltom Road and poor adjustment on the job or at Fort Worth, Texas 76117 school. Linda Evans, State Coordinator for (817) 838-2919 Texas and Oklahoma O Some organizations also provide homemaker services when a mother is ill International Childbirth Education or incapacitated, family (ife education to Association 7212 Skillman, Apt. 1153 interested groups and "Plays for Living" Dallas, Texas 75231 The Easler Seal Society for half-hour dramas aimed at stimulating (214)341-3782 Crippled Children and Adults audience discussion about current in Texas family and community problem's such as drug abuse, retardation, alcoholism, and- pareakchild relationships.. La Leche League of Texas Services Fufidag I The Easter Seal Society provides United kind:fees for services,. programs and ervipes in the areas of, cbritributioh$ Services health, welfare, education. recreation. Contact ?ersol , The La Lethe League encourages employment and research all relative to niChard Staner, Executive Director good mothering through breastfeeditig. the care and rehabilitation of crippled Child and Fafnily Service It ofteficlasses, films atIdJiterature on children It carries on ah annual Easter 419 West Sixth Street breastfeeding, childbirth and tarnily Sealcampaign Oct other fund raising Austin, Texas 78701 Eachgroup has a lending library activities; and it attempts to cooperate (512) 478-1648 containing bboks on child care and and counsel with other organizations development and on breastfeeding. Ste Directory section fOrlital listings. iaid agencies inappropriate activities. Telephone cotoseling, giving for crippled children and.adyllts_ inforrhation, encouragement arid non- . , Number of Children and.Undier) medical advice on breastfeeding;ohild Served LastYier care and family life lamella* around 2,815-ancf their p rentS international Childbirth . the cloCk, Finding Education AsioCiation Funding isr Membership dues

Eligibility Requirements . ''''fligibilifyRequirerhents-..,.- et-vices A person must pay membership dues Families must have some financial The International Childbirth . to jointhe Organization. No feels need. The Easter Seal SOcierty does not EducatKin Associatiorf.(ICEA) man -"charge for its services. Easter Seel charged - , organizatilin composed of groups.of facilities charge according to the parents and prafes'sional people,who Contaot Person feriiity's ability.lb-P ay , , share antjnterest iri-education for ' Kathy Lyons:Area Coordinator,

.--CbrifectPerson childbearing and familyienieied , . LaLeche League of Texas ',4ftililliarn.EAusiell. Executive or maternity.cere. There areAernber and,. 15818 Torry Pines . fie .aeter-.0aai Society for Choi) affiliate groups throughout the State. HdustOn. Texas 77058. and Adults in Texas... The organizatiOn sponsorg Childbirth (713):48!4289 - , . -1442a North Central Expressway preparation clasSee; encourages and .' It, Dallas, Texas 75205 eitista hospitals convenient . 1214) 526-361 ;facil(tiesto'develo0 arid iiSe icentered rhaternity cafe; spokilrep ipt6i); , . - regional natitibal -

-1 f League of Women Voters . March of Dimes in TexaS of Texas.

Servim Contact Person . .The National Foundation-March of Betty Anderson, President Dimes directs its efforts to the League of Women Voters of Texas prevention of birth defects. A birth 1212 Guadalupe, Suite 100 defect is an abnormality resulting from a Austin, Texas 78701 genetic fault or environmental (512) 472-1100 interference during embryonic or fetal life. In Texas, The National Foundation has provided funds for medical service Leukemia Society of timpriqa programsin the diagnosisand treatment of birth defects atthe University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, the Services Child Study Center in Fort Worth, the The Texas offices of the Leukemia University of Texas Medical Branch at Society of Ainerica provide sirvices in ' Galveston, Baylor*College of Medicine referral, counseling, public infoinlation,; in Houston and the Santa Rosa Medical Center Children's'Hospital in San rri ; :patient financial assistance and prpfessional education. Antonio. In addition, the Texas ' 4..". :=..; . Department of Health Resources has . Minter of Children (Five and Under) . received a grantprovidindfor a .Sehied Last Year . nutritionist to pork in the Women, ;:*385 ,! '- Infants and ChildreriPrograrn in South - '.'Eunds Spent on Children (Five and -Texas; and the University of Texas 7% ;tinder) 1..§st Yea:: Health Science Center and Baylor -'2.6250,W1. (estimate) College of Medicine (both in Houston) ,.EtiOibility Requirements . have received funds for perinatal .:Ohltdren must be Texas residents and education programs, -haVeslukemia or Hodgkin's disease. The_March of Dimes has also invested tOntact Person in clinicakesearch grantSat.M.D. . Carroll Lancaster, Jr. Anderson Hospital in Hoiitton; Executive Director Unifiersity of Texas at Sari Antonio; Leukemia Society of America Baylor College of Medicine, Hduston; 3311 Richmond No. 335 University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; University of Texas Health . HOUsfon, Texas 77006 I. (713 529-8709 Science Center at Dallas; and the University of Texas Health.Science . Center at Houston. , Lice-46ed Vocational Nurses In addition to supporting a nationwide ' Assotjation.oeTexas neitWork Of research and medical service .programs, local March of Dimes ' chapters conduct educationalseminars . and provide educational materials on . Contact Person prenatal care, nutrition, birth defects, trOgbroster,.Executive Secretary, drug abuse, venereal dise.g16, LIOrieeiNccational Nurses immunization awareness and parenting -6 #,%.ssociatiOri4TexeS . toprofessional and public groups. 105 WeStRiversideDilie:Sulte 274 Publications, films, exhibits and Austin, TeXas radio/television annduncements are = (512) 476-8858 available for publib hinith and welfare agencies;:ohild care centers, medical centers; Head Start centers; and other ..,"groups to inform the public about ; 1 .pildniitalcare; early diagnosis and ieatirM of birtldefcts: genetic cOn13W:fling and adequatecera during- . and aft.dr deltvery,

, . 89 , Funds Spent on Children (Five and Contaqt Person Under) Last Year John T. Peck, Regional Director' 5399.122 (5194.955 in medicabseititOe Muscular Dystrophy Association,Inc. programs: 5204167 in research) ; 12011 Coit.Road Funding Dallas, Texas 75230 t -Contributions t (214) 661-3297 Eligibility Requirements . Children must have a birth defecitd National Aisociation of Child receive-treatment. Parents whofabeottip risk of bearing a child with a WO dOfpcT .CareAdministrators may seek genetic counseling. FE4-afie'i based on ability to pay. , Services Contact Person , The National Association of Child Dave Yonkin, Regional Director Care AdministratOrs, a newly-organiZed, National Foundation-March of time .. Texas-based organization, represents 5415 Maple,-No. 310 child care administrators at the local, Dallas, Texas 75235 state and national levels. As an advocacy group, it works for sound and . 4 effectiye child care legislation. As a self- -. ;help organization, it coordinates' Muula ystrophy - 6 .;member efforts to develop a unified A iatioInc. 31'approach to mutual problems. It provides public forums on child care and , . . circulates the Alliance newsletter. Servi The Muscular Dystrophy Association: Funding supports two major programs: research Membership dues into mus ular d ophy and related .'Contact Person neuro-mu ardiseases, and patient_ Dr. JohrtW. Hollomon and commu rvicet to help patient's Provisional President .7.. in meeting the oblems which chronic National Association of Child Care disease imposes upon them and their -, Administrators Division of Education MusCOlar Dystrophy Association' University of Texas at Antonio' ,Clinics offer.the CPK serum enzyme test. S,ar) Antonio; Texas 78285 to detect,unaffectethemale cgrriers of ($12) 6g1 -4412 Duchenne Dystrophy. Wheelchairs, leg 'braces and other equipment are' available upon medical presctiption to patients, at no cos National Association of Social ocal 'chapters are found in Abilene, WorlOrs, Inc., Texas Chapter Amarillo, Austin, Beiumont,totpus -Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston, Harlingen, Houston, Services :Longview, Lubbock, Midland, Odessa, The Texas Chapter of the National Pampa, San Angelo, San Antonio, Association of Social Workers (NASW) Texarkana, Tyler, Waco and Wichita represents more than 1800 social Is. workers in the State. Eligibility Requiritments Although the Texas Chapter of NASW Services are available to patients of all provides no direct services for presChool ageS who haye muscular dystrophy or children, many of its memberiwork with other neuro- muscular diseases. All 'young children or agencies providing services aria free. services to children. The organization' has legislative advocacy activities, Funding Contributions spodors research, and carries on professional social.Work education and ',public education;All of these activities relate-10N lives$f young children, particularly those from low-income ; Funding Five sections have founded family ideas and interacting with others in . Membership dues outreach clinics: Dallas, El Paso, .similar situations, parents learn Contact Person Houston, Richardson-Plano and San alternatives to abuse and are gradually . Robert P. Stewart, A.C.S.W., President Antonio Family outreach clinics are encouraged to have positive feelings National Association of Social crisis centers for troubled persons and about themselves and their abilities to

Workers, Inc., Texas Chapter concentrate on families where there is parent. Chapters maintain their own. 4645 Samuell Boulevard actual or potential child abuse. Each crisis hot lines. (See back cover for hot Dallas, Texas 75228 family outreach clinic acts in line numbers.) The organization also (214) 381-7181 cooperation with its local State makes infornigion on child abuse Department of Public Welfare child available to the public. welfare services unit. (See back cover There are now local PA chapters in for telephone numbers.) Belton, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, National.Council of Jewish For 1976, NCJW in Texas, in a joini Lewisville, and San Antonio. effort witA Child Care '76 and the Texas Women, Texas Sections Funding State Department of Public Welfare, will Contributions conduct a series of ten child care forums .115 Services over the State of Texas. Participants in Eligibility Requirements The National Council of Jewish the forums will be working parents from Any person, regardless of national or racial origin, financial status! political Women (NCJW)ISa service all walks of life. Parents will voice their organization, formed in the spirit of felt needs and concerns for their creed or religious affiliation, may use Judaismanddedicated to the support children, while various child these, services. and enlargement of human welfare in development specialists will listen and Contact Person the Jewish and general communities respond to quegtions. Purpose of the Parents Anonymous' locally, nationally and internationally. It forums will be to increase public Texas State Headquarter& is especially interested in encouraging awareness about the problem areas, 3107 Routh the individual and the community to needs and concerns of parents and their Dallas, Texas 75201 accept their wider responsibilities,to thilden. (214) 941-1914 better the human condition and advanceFunding the democratic Way'of life. Membership dues and fund raising A Texas has nine,NCJW sections- activities: (chapters). They are in CorpuS'Christi, Contact Person Parents Without Partners, Inc. Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston, Mrs. Lorraine Su lkin Irving, Richardson-Plano, San Antonio, National District Representative and Sherman-Denison. National Council of Jewish Women Services The organization serves in two ways:t 3817 Villanova Drive Parents Without Partners (PWP), an , provides service wherever,needed and Dallas, Texas 75225 international educational organization serves as an advocacy organization for (214) 369-8370 with twenty-nine chapters,in Texas, tnose elements of society which have 110 peovides programs to assist in solving difficulty in speaking for themselves. - the problems of the single parent. The orgadizatipn has:*.bontinuing Family activities committees enable commitment_to young Children, Parents Anonymous members' children to interact with other especially in the areas of children's legal children from similar home situations rights, and the improvement of day care. and with adults who often provide . Texas sections of NCJW have surrogate father or mother relationships Services . advocacy and research activities for day. -Parents Anonymous (PA) is a self-help PWP also has a special group, "The care, give support in the form of donated' organization for parents who feel they Young Set, for parents of children equipment and supplieS, and often under 10 years of age. , have lost their ability to cope with their . , provide volunteer workers Two Texas children or fear that they may soon lose Newly - separated who are not Sections, Dallas and San Antonio, train this ability). PA recognizesThat child members may find help and support day care center workers for their areas abusers are human beings with a through PWP's "Sp.S;'' Prograjn. and at least two, El Paso and Fort Worth, problem. The organization works to, --; Contact Persons have'begun day care centers and then / . ,..;. prevent danieging relationships , /Nona Lusk, Zone Adrrilnistietdf .;' -/ turned them over to Other persons to run. betvveen parents and children bilielpipg. ParentsylthOptPertpers ,,,.. All sections cooperate with other // ,chartgeOrreginjiatdestructiveiarental ;5054 Hoty:rgay,E)rjud/ , . Organizations which supporfday care. thOtights and actions; Iti)rdvrcies on- . .. ii3tori fibe tOttisiA70008 ,'fi.1 / ,doing crisritergentiOn,group 4 \;) ah0 a 4143 Patentseary work put '-:. : 0 0 , ";7'., .... 4.. pitbs:r u.leeliht4;py,:ti,669 done , , ir.2205eMandlour1,v r en, T 0..s ' (£0 699 28 4' f i 4' 1, o' ,' 4 14/ /: ,., . b71 14.., ,4 .11' yi. If v, e .41; Plinned Parenthood-World Southwest Educational. Multimedia Modules for Teachers and Population Texas Affiliates Development Laboratory Young Children includes training modules that use videotapes, filmstrips, audio tapes, films, transparencies, and take-home brochures. Each module is Services Services designed to teach skills which can be Seventeen certified affiliates of 14- The Southwest Educational used in different contexts and Planned Parenthood are in Alice. Development Laboratory (SEDL), one of incorporate learning strategies such as Amarillo, Austin, Brgwnsville, Corpus , several national educational small group discussions, stimulation, Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, laboratories, researches and develops and problem-solving games. Houston, Kingsville, Laredo, Lubbock, instructional programs to improve Multimedia Modules for Parents of Mission, Odessa, San Angela, San educational opportunities for young Young Children multimedia modules Antonio. and Waco. They strive to make children and carepersons help parents develop skills for dealing: availtble effective means of voluntary The Laboratory has two commercially- with children and are constructed fertility control and to educate the available programsfor young children: around major competency areas of public, through dissemination of family Bilingual Early Childhood Program child rearing. planning information and through direct a comprehensive learning system for TelevisiorrPuplicService services, so that every child will be a Spani h-speaking children, ages 3-5. Announcements on Parehting a wanted child. Thepjogramfacilitates the child's series of public service announcements The national Federation attempts to bec ming functionally bilingual by age to increase parents' child:rearing skills. provide leadership in stimulating birth 6, develops self-awareness and cultural Each ahnourfcement. or "s pot': focuses control-fertility research. and in pride, develops perceptual - motor: and on a specific parenting:skiff with the developing training programs. It gives cognitive skills and builds on the _series-intatfded to make parents more support to the efforts of others -experimental tiackgroundthechild aware of their infIX-nce on their throughout the United - States and the brings to the classroom. The program childfen's development. world to-achieve goals similar to its own. includes instructional materials, a staff Funding , Contact Person - development package, and parent James T. Roderick, Dictor involvement activities. .2. SEDL is a private, nonprofit ,.corporation which receives funds from Southwest Region BiliriguallfIndergarten Program a . the National Institute of Education and Planned Parenthood-World comprehensive Spanish/English . other sources: Population .kindergarten program. The pthgram..s.

4928 Burnet Road, Suite 234 . :provides 44/Wes for alotal school day' Contact Persons Austin, Teas 78756 witl*Olannedlesso0 for small groups, Dave Williams, Ph.D. (512) 452-6417 , orc ithindependent activities Early Childhood Progr

. .andffee play, Tile program develops Southwest EducatioI Development .ilercppfitailiotlarAtidcognitive skills as Laboratory', 4Aely.400iStgoi rilaking thOpanish- 211 East Seventh Street Sickle CetAnetnia ifj hild ighptio hap n g Austin, Texas 78701 Association of.Texas tTheicti,Vitie,s.he held` c en (512) 476-6861 - AtrifiVi; 4eted4ealilebvtio can-

indOcjerriiiihq acrd . . Contact.PerSort g, a.van4re wnSwnixfaik, The jorbirArn Dawsoji .1h/lude,pstrifotioniarrnateri4,* -StateBar of Texas , /'EiecutiveDirectei staffoev#lopttient a(Oarent"Pdu lion; Sickle Cell Mamie 4ssoclanon .11 ies, ..; is of Texas: I'SDli/Asti. has cinde6'develoOrhen t the P.O. Box 3502 , .?: t''091:5 :foirdiOnbActkaities1, ; IffaiiState Bar of exas, in WiliCh.cil Fort Worth, texas 76105 2 ' foal elf /0/gatertaiaYpfeiparklni y (817)5314* Texao1,4 wygrihoid membership, nerves r OtobliStrni as the Teicas Supreme Court's licensing :g 4#741*atia g arrii.)fudderfakisOrojects for the i ation Aretitingfrkiteripls PO'neimqi.lt of the profession and , -Th4C 1 titWpperiting and '2itiprOvemeniof the sy.sterri of justice. has infbrmat avaiffthle to high:. , . .-Within thABar arp20 sections, which ,?)34feSSioritals;Odperents. are vbluntary OrgartizglOns of lawyers r t ringthe same specialization in their ,prScii4rie of ,i.hoS.e organizations is jtie Farntly caw Settion, which has undertaken a ciarnOrehensive revision-of thb TeitgAiliitKoile during the last 14 years. The fingstiii4of the Family Lode Eligibility ReqUIrementS revision WisbOnibleted in.1 973 when the Membership. Texas.LeOisiiturit adopted the, revised :Cantact grams , . Title And tbenew Titles II and 111..tie :revised Family Code includeaeirkimhet 'Dr:MatgueritaDavis;Presidents, of changei affecting chilcfren under 6.1 Texas Asscciatidn'for Childhood's . uCatiOn Contact Person 3828Sacramento Thomas.}. Fiurdorp EI.Plso, Texas 79930 Family Law Section Chairmari (915) 565-4939 State Bar of Texas Virginia Stone .P.O. Box . 208 East Oakview Place Austin, Texas 78711 San Antonio, Texas 78209 (512)-476-6823 , (512) 826-4157

Texas Academy of Family Texas Association for Children PhysiciarIS - with Learning Disabilities

Contact parton' Services Donald C. Jackson A nonprofit international organization Eq,cutive Director of parents and prcifessionals, the Texas TexasAcademy df Family Physicians Association forChildren with Learning 1905 North Lamar As psabilities seeks to advance the Austin, Texas 78705 education and general welfare of (612) 477-4145 children of average to greater than average intelligence who have learning A r- disabilities of a perceptual, conceptual Texas Aiiociation for or coordinative nature. The organization provides public Childhood,Education .information, advocacy and summer *grams for children, teacher's and parents, all aimed at improving a child's Service& performance in school. There.are thirty- An asiociation interested in the well- seven local councils in Texas. being of children from infancy through early adolescence, Texas Associati unding , for Childhood Education works to --.. Through membership dues, promote desirable conditions, programs publication sales, and contributi ns and practices in childhood education. Contact Person 'The organization also seeks to inform Pat Schwartz, Executive Secretary- the public, raise professional standards, TexaiAssociation for Children with cooperate with agencies interested in. Learning Disabilities child development and welfare, and 7986 Fallmeadow Lane biing home, school and community into Dallas, Texas 75240 active cooperation. . (214) 239-4362. The organization offers conferences, Texas Association for Children with wohcshops, summer studyprograms and Learning Disabilities publicatiOns. Information Headquarters Funding P.O. box 5604 Membership dues and conference Austin, Texas 78703 re istratiOn fees

z' I Texas Association for the Texas Association for Heaith,.. P Education of Gifted Children Physical Education and Recreation

Contact Perion - , - J. Beatrice Hall, Executive Director' '4rvibes Texas Associationfor the Education Membei.s of the Texas'A'siii,ciatiofbr..., of Gifted Children Physical Education and 1204' Lorrain reation sib* in public schools,. Austin, Texas 78703 colleges and I natitutliiihi. Many (512) 472-4963 *: members work wilt., dung children, espedianyvithhan4apped youngsters. Funding Texas Association for the Membership fees.' Education of Young Children Contact Person ' '''Lynn W. McCraw, Executive$epretary Texas Association for Health, Physical Services EduCationand FidOeation * The Texas Association for the P.O. Box 7578 Education of Young,Children University Station encourages the study, interpretation and Austin, Te)(as 78712 improvement of the education and (512) 4717;1273 general well-being of young children and cooperates with all other groups having a similar purpose. The Association has child advocacy Texas Kssociation forlikental activities; it sponsors yearly the obserVancb of the Week of the Young. Health Child; it holds conferences and .f publishes a newsletter; it coordinates ` Services the efforts of 19 affiliated groups with a The Texas Association for Mental membership of 1,200; and it proi/ides Health is iriterestedin,edueationzrIct resource materials for those wilktork social action that willtireient mental with children. ilttiess and promote,ental health. it Funds Spent on Children (Five and interestSia in quality day oe're programs- Under) Last Year because they:affeat the lives ofchildren $18,571 (This figure represents they at.a'verf early % e. total spent by the organizatiorriastyear. Theorgattibon has a child advocacy All TAEYC activities indirectly 'affect the p,O gram wh' ti plans education and lives of.youngchildren.) action and works to infliience Funding ":' legislation. A large part Cif.this'program Menibership dues ie directed toward quality day care. -1h,mid-1973, the orgarlizatilln in Contact Persons , Frances Schneider, President cooperation with the Texa;g0sPArtment Texas Association,for the EducatioD oof ComriVnity Affairs, Early Childhooct . (..;" of Young Children OtivelopfnenrDi4ision, begari mailing a 1621 West Bliim parent educatjoh,newsletter, Plent.the

. Alvin, Texas 77511 . Texas Pelican, to first -time parents in.., (713) 331-3331 = 'Texas: ;0- . t Fitoding Anri-Garrett._ Immediate Past P(esident _Contribmtio 6; and membership fees:, ,Texas Association for the Eciticailbn Contapt Perko of Voting Children , ' Bill KuehriEcutive Director,

3424 Caroodolet $ 'Texas Asdoci n for Mental Health , Waco, Jexas 76710 . 4103 'Lantern L 0: (617) 753-7,963 ;".Au,Stin, Texas.8741 - ; -(512) 459-6584

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.1* . 94 1 "'Y v Texas AssoCiation for By workipg,in child advocacy at the i`exasAdsociation of theDeaf Retarded Citizens local and state levels, The organization is trying to encouragea conrdinated state system of services to children. The Services Association was instrumental in Services ,, The purpose of the Texas Association promoting the legislation which created The Texas Association for Retarded of the Deaf is to improve the educational, the Texas Commission on Services to Citizens is the State coordinating body social, ecgnomic and vocational Children and Youth and now engages in for more than seventy local associations. standards for deaf persons. joint activity with the Commissiori. It is:composed of parents and friends of The association hasedvocacy Local chapters are in Abilene, Austin, the mentally retarded and has the actwities,.provides public information, Corpus Christi, Dallas and Fort Worth purpose of improving the general has referral and consumer involvement. welfare of the retarded.;. Funding services, and acts as the coordination The State organization offers' o direct Membership fees agency for all services to deaf people. service, but does provide legal,. Contact Person Funding, legislatiye.and publiceducatibn services Harold P. ScOgiii, President Contributions and fees which aid retarded youngsters. Texas Association for Services Eligibility Requirements _Local associations provide many to Children services to mentally relirded young Parenti of deaf children-must be Settlement Club Hoine children, dependent on the needs of tfte organization memberskrorder to 1600 Peyton Giri Road ,individual community. Foremost among participate in aisociitiOn activities. Austin, Texas 78758 these services are day care and training (51.2) 836-2150 Contact Person centers for the preschool retarded. Gwen del Butler, President Parentalyounseling; education and Texas Association Of the Deaf social services area's° provided for . 211? Barton Hills Drive ' parents of these children. Activities Austin, Texas 78704. .usually include advocacy, public Texas Association of Child (512) 442-1149 (Teletypewriter) information, legislative education and Care Workers, Inc. activity, and interagency coordination relative to the prevention and twat nt of retardation inyoung children. Services '7 - Texas .Assbaation Therrexas Association of Cf11111 Care Number of Children (Five and Under Obstetriciani and Workers, Inc., a professional Served Last Year 'is *. Gynecologist's' a organizatidn for child care workers 600 (through local associations) , o (teachers aid aides), acts as en Sp&ii on Children (Pie and information exchange for child care aoritact Person U der) Last Year; worketsand acts astheir ad4cate. If William Nash. M.O. 50,000 . providea a job exchange-service in its -Secretary-Treasurer Eligibility Reiluireinenti t nOrsletterlholdsphild care training Texas Association of Obstetricians Children musCbe mentally. retarded. conferences, and provides a resource and Gynecologists Contact Perim . library fOr its members. It holds special 7711 Loifis fasteur Drive David Bt Sloane, Executive Director interedt, one-day seminars oriented San Antonio, Texas 78229,. Texas Association for, toward individual community needs. In- (512) 696-3200 iRetarded Citizens 1976 it plans to issue a comprehensive 833 Houston Street' resource directory for child care:. , AUstin, Texas 78756 Funding ' 4. "(512) 454-6694 Membership dues and fees for training Texas Association of conferenceS , . . _ School Administrators Contact Person - Marilyn Younger, S?oretary: 'Texas Association for Texas Assdciation of ChildCare . Contact arson . Services to Children ' Workers, In& . . . R. E. Harris, Exakutive Secretary ) .2939 West Woodlawn Avenue' Texas Associatiapf School' 1, San Antdnio,Texas 782,28 . ,.. * , * Administratots Services (.. II (512)/36.4273, I - ; 316 Wedt Twelfth Street Made up of prOfe0ionats end ,>. Austin, Tixas 78701 interested individuals, the Texas %(59) 47 -6361 Association forSen.fices to Children r I -lieeks to efirede-aigFeater awareness of the needfor improved Services to childreanclhighr Standards for those services. ' . a

Texas Aisociatiori of The booklet "Effects of Chiropractic working parents. The forums are t School Boards. Treatment on Emotionally Disturbed andscheduled for Dallas, Ho'usten, Corpus Learning Impaired Children and Christi, San Antonio, El Paso, Fort Adolescents, a pilot 4udy conducted Worth, Lubbock. Tyler. Austin and the .Services by Psychoeducatiotrdand Guidance Rio Grande Valley between January arid The purposes of the Texas Services, Texas At.M.University, CoflegeJuly 1976. Station, Texas, E.W. Walton. Director, is Association of School Boards are to Funding . represent all local boards of education available through the TCA state office in Various sources, including federal, at the State level and to provide all local Austin. . state, city funds, foundation grants, boards with sufficient information and Chiropractors individually serve membership dues and fees for services. counsel so that they can improve their .children in their professional capacity.. deciiion making. Funding Contact Person Marie Oser, Executive Director/ . Advocacy, lobbying and public . Membership dues information have been and will be . State Coordinator Contact Person provided by this organization in 'support Texas Child Care 76 Charles E. Walker, D.C. of young children. 6711 Homwood, No, 269 . Executive Director Houston, Texas 77036 Numberiof Children (Five and Under) TexasdhiropracticAssociation (713)772-3752 Servesalt Year 303 International Life Building AU children enrolled in public Austin, Texas 78701 kindergarten and their,parents. (512) 476-1229 Funding Texas Civil Liberties Union. Each local school board is charged an . annual fee. Texas Child Care '76 . Contact Person Service's C. E. Rusk, Executive Director . . As the Texas affiliate of the American Texas Association of School Boards selv ices Civil Liberties Union, TCLU provides 507 West Avenues Texas Child Care '76 serv es as a free hadal services withtregard to rights 'Austin, Texas , private organization relating to all enumerated in the Constitution and the (512) 476-9116 individuals, families, communities, Bill of Rights. ACLU funds a Children's agencies and groups interested in, Rights Project in Virginia which has - serving the unique needs of young' provided assistance to TCLU in its childreh. It provides consultation and defense of Texas children's rights; Texas Chiropractic Associaliohtechnical assistance to local and state Funding organizations, agencies and Contributions and membership dues government units concerned with Contact Persons Services children under 6 in the ,areas of: program John Duncan, Executive Director The Texas Chiropractic Association development, resource development, Dorothy Vance. Office Manager promotes education, study and research advocacy, legislation, publio education, Texas Civil Liberties Union in the philosophy4cience and art of parent education, coordination of effort, 600 West Seventh Street chiropractic; and issues pit:per on behalf of young children, and Austin, Texas 78701 credentials to membersrattesting to community relations. Through its their qualifications.. statewide eforts, conferences, (512)477 -5849 The organization serves young workshops, forums,-newsletters and children in three areas: research, public media materials are produced. Through information and advocacy. The local Child Gare '76 committees, many organization launched a major specific programs are being planned Texas Conference'of Churches research program for 1973-75 to- thatjneet local needs such as a model determine the effectiveness of family day home system, acitiwide chiropractic therapy on children with training program, a city office for Contact Person behavioral and learning disorders children and youth, a daycare center or Roy J Cates, executive Director caused by neurologicai dysfunctions. an after school care program, as well as Texas Conference of Churches numerous pubtie.awareness gctivities. 2794 Rio Grande, No. 9 WithitheAtate Department of Public Austin, Texas 78705 Welfare and the NationCouncit of ,(512) 478-7491 Jewish Women in Dallas, Child Care:76 is sponsoring ten "Bicentennial" child .4. care forums to point LTthe needs of.

. 97 96), Texas Congress of Parents irexasCotmcil for . and Yeichers (Texas PTA) ExceptionalChiklren

Services Services Tht purposes of the Texas Congrips The purpose of the Texas for of Parents and Teachers include Exceptional Children is to roster, promoting the welfare of children and encouragesand help coordinate youth in home, school, church and educational services to exceptional community; and developing united childrell. The term "exceptional' efforts between educators and the coincides with thelefinition used by the *generalpublicso that children wilt have Texas Education Agency. i.e., referring the highest advantages in physical, to the mentally retarded, the physically mental, social and spiritual education. handicappeed, the visually impaired, the, Early childhood education is a top auditorially and speech handicapped, priority forte Texas PTA. The Congress children with laqguage or learning was instrumental in securing legislation disabilities and children with behavior making kindergarten part of the disorders. Foundation School Program in Texas One division of the Council, the and in promoting parent and family life Division of Early Childhood, contains education programs designed by local those members who work specifically planning groups. with 3- to5-year-old children. Contact Perion The Council provides informational literature to the public and to Thomas J. Prather, Executive Director Texas Congress of Parents and professionals, and sponsors an annual conference for members. Teachers 408 West Eleventh Street Funding . Austin, Texas 78701 Mertibership dues (512) 476 -6769 Contact Person Katherine Webb, President. Texas Council for Exceptional Children Texas Councilfor Early, P. 0. Box 117 ,Childhood. Education blathid, Texas 78368 (512) 547-3284 Diann Friend Services- DivisionofEarly Childhood President The Texas Council for Early Texas Council for Exceptional Childhood Education is dedicated to Children improving and expanding opportunities. c/o Early Childhood Education for all Texas children under 6 years of Waco Independent School District age. It actively Promotes-the most Waco, Texas 76710 efficient use of health, education and (817) 752 -9641 4 welfare services for young children. The organization provides information to the public andto legislative bodies on early childhood development and acts as an advdcale in behalf of young children. 1 Funding Membership dues Contact Person Tommy Gilmore, Director TexasCouncilfor Early Childhood- Education Box27/ Tyler, Texas 75701 . (214) 595-1021

98\ s 97 Texas Council on Contact Person Family Relations , Jeanne Hoover, Executive Director Dallas Area Cystic Fibrosis Chapter 1206 Stemmons Tower West Services - Della& Texas 75207 A nonprofit organizationaffiliated with Charles A. Miller the National Council on Family. Texas Gulfoast Cystic Fibrosis Rlatiens, the Texas Council seeks to Chapter strengthen family life and to assist in 4223 Richmond, Suite 203 developing needed services for families. HotiSiiin, Texas 77027 , The Council holds a conference every year at which national authorities ii3ob Hogberg provide informthion in line with a theme Austin Cystic Fibrosis Chapter relevant to the contemporary family. In' P.O. Box 739 Georgetown, Texas 78626 1971 the Bowman-Moore Award of . Excellence was establishedto be given Mrs. Clifton Struck annually to an individual who has made Permian'Basin Cystic Fibrosis a significant contribution to family life in Chapter Texas. I P.O. Box 812 Contact Person Odessa. Texas 79760 t W. Clark Ellzey, President Jim Graves Texas Council on Family Relations Lone Star Cystic Fibrosis Chapter c/o Home and Family Life Department 4414 Centerview Drive, Suite 295 Texas Tech University San Antonio, Texis 78228 Lubbock, Texas 79409 James E. Martin (806) 742-5233 Tarrant County Cystic Fibrosis Cbapter P.O. Box 2666 Texas Cystic Fibrosis Fort Worth, Texas 76101 Chapters Texas Dental Association Services Cystic Fibrosis chapters in Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth. Houton, Odessa, Services and San Antonio provide informational The Texas Dental Association, the assistancejo families of lung-damaged professional association for dentists, '""' 'children and make,referrats to various encourages the improvement of the local agenciet for financial aid. health of the public, promote the Chapters also conduct the annual practice of dentistry and represents the Breath of Life caipaign to raise funds I interests of its members and the public it forchapter actin ties and for programs of serves. the Cystic Fipro'sis Foundation. Made up of twenty-five societies in the

The Foundation funds a nationwide , State, the Association publishes the network of centers for care, teaching monthly Texas Dental Journal. and research, five of which are located Funding in Texas (Dallas, El Paso, Houston, San Membership dues Antonio, and Temple). Contact Person Eligibility Requirements Joe C. Carrington, Jr., D.D.S. If a family with a cystic fibrosis child is' Secretary-Treasurer in need of assistance, they may qualify Texas Dental Association r for the Texas Department of Health 4920 INiorth I nterregional,Highway Resources Crippled Children's Program. Austin, Texas 78751 If the family does not qualify, the locV ;(512) 454-7624 chapter may loan them equipment or refer them to 'other community resources. 99

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'Texas Dermatological SocietyEfigibitityfietwinsments Contact.Person Membership open to all elementary, Mrs. Harriege Williford Whatley kindergarten and nursery educators President Contact Persons ' H. F. Johnson, M.D., President Contact person. Texas Federation of Women's Clubs Texas Dermatological Society Myrtice Larson, President 2312 San Gabriel Medical Drive Texas Elementary, Kindergarten and' Austin, Texas 78705 Amarillo, Texas 79106' Nursery Educators (512)472-1456 (806)355-2421 1203 Pioneer Parkway Arlington, TeAas 76013 William F. Snifter, M.D. (817) 274.7354 Secretary-Treasurer Texas Home Economics Texas Dermatological Society 5000 Montrose Association Houston, Texas-77006 Texas Elementary Principals (713) 529-0041 and Supervisors'Association Services The Texas Home Economics Association (THEA) is dedicated to the Services improvement of home and family life, Texas Elementary, The TexasElementaryPrincipals and and the improvement of standards of Kindergarten Supervisors Association'works to home economics education,services and NursemEducators- improve elementary school education byand scientific research. Memberscome making special studies, conducting from all areas within the field of home professional growth activities (ivhich economics. Services include kindergarten and early The organization promotes childcare An affiliate of the national Elementary,childhood education), and promoting programs and supports the training of Kindergarten and Nursery Educators the welfare of elementary school personnel who work with the young (EKNE), TEKNE is the professional personnel. child. Members and member organization for educators in Other services are advocacy and departments train parents, child care elementary, kindergarten and nursery research. and day care workers arid childcare schools. The organization promotes Number of Children (Five and Under) aides Child development teacher higher principles of education and Served Last Year members train students in homemaking development for elementaryt All children under 6 enrolled in public metijods for the care and treatmentof kindergarten and nursery schools and schools. the-young child, and teach prenatal and school children; and higher standards of tostnatai care, family planning and Funding . training and selection of elementary. child-parent relations. Membership dues kindergarten and nursery school Funding Contact Person teachers. It helps conduct and Membership fees cooperates with research studies Howard L Pickle, Executive Dir pertinent to elementary, kindergarten Texas Elementary Principals and Contact Persons Dr. Stanley Fowler, Chairman and nursery school education and . Supervisors Association "I` development. The organ izationworks 316 West Twelfth Street Family Relations and Child with the Texas State Teachers Austin, Texas 78701 Development Section Texas Home Economics Association and serves that (512)478.5268 i organilation by making Assobiation recommendations when asked. It serves- c/o Home and Family Life Department as advisor to the Texas Education Texas Tech University Agency upon request. Texas Federation of Lubbock, Texas 79409 (806) 742-3355 Funding Women!s,Clubs Membership fees Dr. Mattie Bea Medford, President Texas Home Economics Association Services 1001 Avenue J; Apt. 5 Made up of more than 360 wome n's Huntsville, Texas-77340 clubs throughout Texas, the Texas (713) 295-6211 Ext. 1670 Federation of Womeh's Clubs vtarks to promote educatipn, public welfani, philanthropy, fine arta, scholarlhip and patriotic affairs. ,Texas Hospital Association Many local clubs uridert4ke projects that include assisting with ,Oy care, immunizations, medical cam, Services rehabilitation and family planning.' First organized in 1930, the Texas

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than 675 hospitals and healtii care ....," education of members in child Texas Migrant Council, Inc. related institutions now belong. The development, to educate thepublic in aorgan ization.enables member hospitals the value of licensed child care, to be to exchange information, and provides informed of all proposed standards and Services members with inforntabon on pending legislation concerning day care and to A private, nonprofit organization registation and current reguiation. On coordinate the efforts of Assiociatior staffed largely by migrant workers and botlistateand national levels, it acts as members. serving migrant agricultural families, the Texas Migrant Council operates Head hospital advocate. The association_ Eligibility Requirements .. . conducts over 300 meetings each.year to Children under age 12 are placed in Start centers and the Home Start educate various department heads and commercial child care facilities at the program which include early childhood personnel within member hospitals., discretion.of their parents, fees are developneenL nutrition, health, All member hospitals serve childreg in charged for services. psychologictl, parent involvement and their roles as healtet.care providers. career development services. The Contact Persons There are several member children's program is unique in that the staff Mrs. Ruth Blessing, President hospitals in Texas, the largest being in follows the migrant stream, thus Texas Licensed Child Care Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston. providing continuous, year-round Association Some 120 member hospitals are services. .6415 Glenview Drive involved in Operation Pierre, a program The organization also has a Human which presents first-time parents with Fort Worth, Texas 76118 Development Program which tries to the first three issues of "Pierre,Ihe (817)'281-0901 . document and research the problems Texas Pelican, a twenty-eight-part Dr. Michael Zaccaria related to the movement of migrants and series of child development-mentar, Immediate Past President to mobilize resources on behalf of health newsletters. After lehving the Texas Licensed Child Care migrant families. i hospital; parents continuelo receive the Association Number of Children (Five and Under) series 4y mail through sponsorship of 303 Quill Drive East . Served Last Year San Anion ici, Texas 78228 , the Texas Department of Community 3,500 Affairs,'Early Childhood Developnient (512) 432-8143 .. . , Division, and the Texas Association fore Funds Spent on Children (Five and Mental Health. Under) Last Year S1,502,844 Funding , Membership Dues Texas Medical Association Funding Contact Persons Office of Child Development, U.S. Department of Health, Education and 0. Ray Hurst, CAE, President Services Jack R. Martin, CAE Welfare (DHEW); and Texas Oepartinent The Texas Medical Association is the of Community Affairs, Early Childhood Director of Public Information Professionalorganization for doctors of Development Division. Texas Hospital Association medicine. Its purpose is to extend P.O. BOx 15587 medical knowledge and advance Eligibility Requirements Austin, Texai 78761 medical science, to improve the Children must be under age 5. (512) 453-7204 standas of medical education, to Families must be mobile migrants and meet low:income guidelines established secure the enactment and enforcement. l of just medical laws, and to act as by DHEW. , Texas:League for Nursing advocate in behalf of all doctors of Contact Persons. , medicine. Oscar Villarreal, Executive Director The organization provides a wide Onesimo Castillo, Deputy Director Contact Person variety of medical information, including Texas Migrant Council, Inc. . ,Edith C. Ayers, Executive Secretary information on pediatrics, to physicians P.O. Box 917 Texas League for Nursing and the public, All other direct services Laredo, Texas 78040 6225 Highway 290 East ',' are provided Sy individual members in (512) 722-5174 Austin; Texas 78723 their professional capacity. (512) 459-6070 Funding Membership dues .. Contact Person. Texas Licensed C. Lincoln Williston Child-Care Association Executive Director Texas Medical Association Services 1801 North Lamar Boulevard Made up of approximalely-200 - Austin, Tetras 78701 operators of commercial, licensed child (512) 477-6704 care facilities, the9exas Licensed Child ; Care Association strives to further . :. 101 ,100 '., 4I

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Services Services A professional association which The Texas Optometric Association is a strives to foster high standards of professional association for doctors of nursing practice, the Texas Nurses optometry, trained in the diagnosis and Association sponsors an interest group treatment of vision problems. Individual for membeis working in maternal-child members participate in schookvision health, the Maternal-Child Health screening programs, thereby facilitating Conference Group, and is concerned early detection of vision disorders. with ;Eigislation affecting the hfialth of Optometric training includes early mothers and children. childhood vision development, and The group also provides information today's preventive optometric care to nurses through publications and includes such facets as parental meetings. counseling,diagnosis and remediation Funding of visioriperoeption and other vision Membership dues related school problems. Contact Person Funding Kenneth L Rinker,R.N. Membership dues Executive Director Contact Persons iv Texas Nurses Association Jimmy W. McNeil, 0.0., President 4920 Wirth Interregional Highway, Texas Optometric Association Suite 219 1328 Hickory Street Austin, texas 787.51 Abilene, Texas 79601, (512) 452-0645 J (915) 677-6225 Stanley Boysen, Executive Director Texas Optometric Association 505 International Life' Texas Ophthalmological Building Association Austin, Texas 78701 (512) 478-1621 I.

Services The Texas Ophthalmological Association is the professional Texas Optometric organization for doctors of medicine trained in the diagnosis and treatment of Association Auxiliary diseases and abnormalities of the eye and associated structures. It helps Services further the education of its membersm by The Texas Optometric Association providing information and scientific Auxiliary serves as a public information meetings. Children are served through center on matters relevant to vision and examination and treatment on an conducts several programs which aid individual basis by members who are eye better vision. physicians. The Auxiliary condlicts the.V.plusifeers Funding for Vision program, avision screening Membership fees program for Head Start, public,. Contact Persorf parochial and private schoolchildren. Be SafeBe Seen is a program which Clem Struve, M.D., Secretary Texas Ophthalmqlogical provides ,day -glo reflective strips for clothing and bikes for schoolchildren. Association P,O. Box 6374 "Step Lightly" and "Hush Puppy's Bright Idea" are both traffic safety,film Corpus Christi, Texas78411 programs on nighttime visibility. The ). :'Seymour Safely" puppet show describes good vision habits.

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101 Chapters throubhout the State give Texas Pediatric Society - schorarships.for optometric students and make contributions of books on vision to libraries. A "Joy of Seeing" art Services poster contest in schools, a driving kit The Texas Pediatric Society is a for driver education classes and professional organilation of Texas legislative activity are other projects. pediatricians-and others in the medical Some literature is provided to the profession interested in child care. public, including,Seymour Safety Through private practice, hospitals and bookmarks which describe good vision outpatient clinics associated with practices and a baby booklet describing hospitals, members are active in good visual, practices and development neonatal care, parent counseling, well from birth on. baby care, and general health care for Number of Children (Five and Under) well and sick young children. The Served Last Year organization has been active in 113,000 (estimate) advocating better immunization laws for the State, accident preventich and Funds Spent on Children (Five and poison control programs, insurance Under) Last Year. coverage for the neorfate, and health 51.500 (estimate spent on materials) cafe for children of migrant workers. ginding Much research is being done by Membership dues and fund raising members, particularly those in academic projects pediatrics. . Contact Person Funding A Mrs. W.C. Treadwell, Jr.. President Membership dues Texas Optometric AssociatiOn Contact Person Auxiliary P. Clift Price, M.D., President 7311 Waterline Road Texas Pediatric Society Austin, Texas 78731 1801 North Lamar (512) 345-0368 Austin, Texas 78701 (512) 477-6704 Ext.54 - Texas Orthopedic Association Texas Psychological AssociatiOn Contact Person E. Burke Bevins, M.D., President Texas Orthqpedic Association Services University of Texas Medical Branch The Texas Psychological AssOciation

Galveston, Texas '7550 is the professional organization for . (713) 765 -2565 psychologists in Texas. It helps further the education of its membersby providing information and scientific meetings. Children are served on an TexasrOtolaryngological individual basis by members.. Association 'Funding Membership fees Contact Person Contact Person Naomi Meadows James L. Baldwin, M.D., President Administrative Secretary Texas Otolaryngological Association Texas Psychological Association (Medicine dealing with the ear, P.O. Box 9404 nose and throat) AUstin,7exas 78746f 712 North Washington (512) 258-5351 Dallas, Texas 75246 (214) 823-2333 )

102 103 Texas Public Number of Children (Five and Under) - ,Eligibility Requirements Health Association Served Last Year None, but eye test screening is largely .c ' 490 inpatients (estimate) directed toward children between the 6,000 inpatient visits ages of 3 and 6. Contact Person 'Robert Monroe, Executive Secretary Funds Spent on Children (Five and Contact Persons Texas Public Health Association Under) Last Year Glenn Lively, Executive Director 4121 Bellvue Avenue 51.408,455 Donna Talbot, Program Dire'ctor Austin, Texas 78756 Funding Texas Society for the Prevention of (512)451-1846 Contributions to endowment fund Blindness

. . 'P.O. Box 13400 Eligibility Requirements . . 3211 West Dallas Child must be a bona fide resident of Houston, Texas 77019 Texas and parents must be unable to pay Texas Safety Association for adequate treatment. (713) 526 -2559 Child must have a treatable condition, be refeired by a Physician, and make Services application through a Texas Masonic The Texas Safety Association is a Lodge. Texas Society of private, nonprofit, nongovernmental, Contact Person Child Psychiatry public service organization that -John L. Morgan, Administrator conducts extensive public information Texas Scottish Rite Hospital and educatiOn programs in all phases of 2201 Welborn Services safety, including traffic, home, school, Dallas, Texas 75219 The'Texas Sodiety'of Child Psychiatry occupational, and recreational. (214) 521-3168 . works to promote the mental health of Materials, assistance in securing children by providing a forum for se speakers and,programs, organizing -diussing normal grOwth and educational programs, research, data, development, normal emotional needs, and many other services are offered to and pathological states of children. The groups interiasted in safety. Texas Society for the organization also strives to advance" Funds Spent on Children (Five and Prevention of Blindness child psychiatry and allied rOfessions. 'Under) Last Year One current researchrect by . $8.000 to S10.000 (estimate) directors of-residential t e rhent centers . Services involves the validation o a Problem- Funding The Texas Society for the Prevention Oriented Medical Record. The Record , Membership dues: fees for services of Blindness, an affiliate of theNational will be used by utilizatibn and review and project grants Society for the Prevention of Blindness, committees in dealing with Professional Inc., is a voluntary health agency Contact Persons Service Review Organizations and other Stuart Nelson, Executive Director directing its efforts toward the federal and State funding agencies prevention of blindness and vision Texas Safety Association connected with children's services. 5014 Bull Creek Road impairment. It has both lay and medical A more recent Society project - 6 , members.' F.Q. Box 9345 attempts to get insurance companies to Austin, Teias 78766 The organization has an extensive cover psyetiattic care for children i,n p?ogram of free eye tests for preschbbi (512) 451-7421 outpatient, day Hospital and residential children, an effort to find those childre'n care programs. whoneed eye care before they enter Advocacyactivities dthe Society school. It prOvides eye safety programs include intbrinin9 members about and vision educatio'n programs for Texas Scottish Rite Hospital legislative hearings, developments in schools. A free eye test kit in English .tor Crippled Children. the profession and other events and Spanish is provided to parents Who affecting children. wish to give eye tests to their children at home. Contact Person Services Jackson R. Day, M.D., President. Number of Children (Five and Under) ,TIle Texas Scottish Rite Hospital Texas Society of Child Psychiatry Served Last Year providesreconstructive orthopedic Medical Park Tower .30,834 -services for children with congenital or 1301 West Thirty-Eighth acquired physical handicaps. Children Funds Spent on Children (Five and Austin, Texas 78701 with certain neurological handicaps are Under) Last Year (512) 454-5716 also accepted, if improvement can be $7,04 (estimate) 'effected. Regearch is conducted in-both Funding areas, Psychological, social, dental, Contributions dphthalmological, and remedial language learning support services are offered. 104.

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Texas Speech and The work of the Association is *.iled At its 1975 convention, TWPC listed .into nirre parts: membership and services to children and families as a top Hearing Association membereervices, research and data priority and promised to push for processing, governmental relations, increased State appropriatiOns to public public relations, publications, and child welfare. It endorsed 5* Services professional relations, special sery comprehensbrethild.batalegislation at The Texas Speech and Hearing instructional services and field all levels and gave its full support t9 the Association promotes the study, ' operations. The Association r its to federal Child Nutrition Act. evaluation, nonmedical treatment and members through two publicions, management of children and adults with Contact Persons "Texas Outlikk" and "TexSchools:" .speech, hearing and langUage Martha Smiley, Chairperson TSTA has cooperated the Texas disorders. Audiologists, spOech Texas Women's Political Caucus EducatiOn Agency, the:xas pathologists, and language pathologists 603 West Thirteenth, Suite 203 Association of Schoo ards, the may be found in public end private Austin, Texas 78701 Parents and clinical settings as well as in schools. National Congress (512)474-1798 Teachersand.oth= related *Direct services include testing. therapy Jan Weimer, Chairperson organizations in urthering mutual goals. arid counseling. Child Care Caucus The Association works toward_the Funding 3333 South Almeda improvement and expansion of facilities Members, p dues Corpus Christi, "texas 78411 for research, evaluation, prevention, COntact rson clinical diaghosis and therapy of Celli .Smith, Executive Secretary speech. language and hearing Te State Teachers Association disorders. - 3 West Twelfth Street 'United Cerebral Palsy . The Association alsO promotes Ostin, Texas 78701 professional growth and whenever (51) 47 Association of Texas, Inc. possible encourages a multidisciplinary 'approach to-rehabilitation. .4 . Services Funding The United Cerebral Palsy ' 'Membership dues Association of Texas provides direct 4 Texas Women's Political Eligibility Requiriments Caucus patient and family services by furnishing Child must have a communicat n or wheelchairs and other supportive learning. disorder. Fees vary ac rding equipment, transportation costs, fees for to clinical setting and ability o the family .Services therapy and referral information to those to pay. A multi-partisan coalition affiliated individuals with a demonstrated need. with the National Women's Political In addition to educating the public Contact Person Caucus, the Texas Women's Political about cerebral palsy, the organization ' Richard Stream. Ph D Caucus is working toward a number of provides information about working with -Executive Secret legislative goals, including the and treating the cerebral palsied.to TexasSpeech and earing t establishment of publicly funded, doctors, dentists, teachers, social Association parentally controlled child care workers and other professionals. c/o Center for Alogy and Speech facilities. r The number one researctypriority of Pathology A special interest subgroup within the the National Research Foundation of. University oeras Medical Branch organization, the Child Care Caucus, is United 6erebral Palsy Associations, Inc., Galvestonexas 77550 concerned with such topics as child is premdture birth its causes and {713) 76 2714 care facilitiet, child abuse laws, and prevention. child rdvocacy programs: This fiumber of Children (Five and Under) subgioup contributeslo policy Served Last Year decisions affecting activities of The 400 Te as State Teachers statewide organizations and provides . Funds Spent on Children (Five and Sociation information about children to members Under) Last Year and the public. $3,000 . SerVices Funding ' A professional association founded in Contributions and United Fund 1889, the Texas State Teachers Association (TSTAstrives to promote F, the progress of education in the State, improve instruction, encourage the 4 professional growth of teachers, and improve teacher welfare. '

1,0 5 5 104 Eligibility Requirements Services, Mental Retardation, Nursing Applicant must be cerebral palsied. Care (Home Visits, Public Health), - PhysicalTherapy, PlaygroUnds, Poison Contact Persons - Control and Treatment, Psychiatric and L K. Sunderland, Executive Director Psychological Services, Recreation, United Cerebral Palsy Association kSchobis, Sex Education, Sick Room of Texas, Inc. Equipment, Speech Therapy, Transients 1117 WesiForty-Second Street, and Travelers, Transportation Services, No. 212 Unmarried Mothers, and Services for the Austin, Teias 78756 Visually Handicapped. (512) 454-5271 Statewide information and referral services for local United Ways maybe provided by Texas United Community United Way Organizations andServices. Texas United Community Number of Children (Five and Under) Services Served Last Year =225,622 Funds Spent on Children (Five and Services Under) Last Year These local, autonomous $3,105,000 organizations are variously named Funding United Fund or United Way. Each of the ContribUtions (voluntary 210 across the State is composed of a' wide variety of separate, local, nonprofit Eligibility Requirements service agencies. Each Fund has an As a general rule, families seeking annual money-raisIng campaign which, servida from affiliated agencies are in turn, provides financial support to charged on a sliding fee scale ranging member agencies unable to find from no charge to full cost, depending complete operating expenses through on their ability to pay. other appropriate income sources.' Contact Person Services in communities vary greatly, Statewide information and referral depending on the types of member service provided by: agencies involved in each fund and on Warren B. Goodwin the generosity of local contributors. Executive Director - Large United Ways may also support Texas United Community Services research and development-bodies called 725 Commodore Perry Building Community Councils or Welfare Austin, Texas 78701 Planning Associations. These work (512) 477-5876 closely with both public andprivate A list of Community Planning agencies, seeking balance in social andCouncils and Major United Way rehabilitation services. Each maintains Organizations may be found in the an Information and Referrat Service for Directory section of this report. public use, as well as printedidirectoriee available at modest cost. The directories are indexed by probienis or needs in .early childhood development and University of Texas at Dallas,' various other areas. Callier Center for There are many headings for the Commi9ication Disorders services: Adoptions, ApplianceTfOr Handicapped, Behavior Disabilitids, Birth Defects, Blindness, Day Care, Services I Family Planning, Fertility and Sterility The Callier Center'd education C Unice:Financial Assistance, First Aid division consists of five progranis: infant Instruction, Foster Home Care, home training for deaf children 0-2 years Guidance and Counseling,'Hard of old; a preschool program for deaf Hearing, Health Care, Homemaker. children 3 -5;'an eiementdryprogram for Services; Hospital and Institutional deaf children 6-8; a program for deaf- Care, Legal Aid, Marriage Counseling, blind children from birth to.darly Maternity Homes, Mental Health adolescence; and a program for lariguage-Iielayed children 3-4. Parent training and outreach services are included. 100 105 IP

. The Center has a clinical division !Serving some 2,900 teachers of which offers services for persons of all vocational homemaking in Texas ages with speech and hearing problems; schoofwthe organization prOmotes a research division which investigates, programs to help individuals and problems of communication disertleic families improve home environment and and a special services division,madesr the quality of personal, family, and

of psychologists, a social Worker and . community life; to prepare youth for the. counselors for the adult deaf. "-- responsibilities of family life, parenthood In addition, the Center is the and the ciddi role of homemaker and "headquarters of a federally tunded wage earner; and to prepare studenji to tegionatproject for de' f-blind children, becoMe employable in occupations serving Texas, Oklahoma,Aikansas, requiring home economicsknowledge Lopisiarra,.lowa and Missouri. ". and skills.. The Callier Center bedanie a part of The Aseckciation also serves the University of Texas at Defies on homemaking teachers of adult © September 1, 1975. There were no. education for the disadvantaged. The changes in basic service": program goals are identical to those Number of Children (Five and Under in-school youth; however, they are Served Last Year designed specifically for the population served. 5,211 O Members are concerned with ,Funds Spent on Children (Five and legislation affecting children from birth Under) Last Year through young adulthood and are $720,869 involved in research and advocacy Funding activities. Family members from birth to United Fund, contracts with death and their quality of life is the focus independent school districts, and client of the entire homemaking education fees. (Fees are based on the family's program. ability to pay.) The regional deaf-blind Contact Person 'project is fundedpy the Bureau for the Mrs. Billie F. Chapman Education of thelHandicapped, Office of . Executive Diractof 1 Education,,V.S. Department of Health, Vocational Homemaking Teachers Education ald Welfare. Association of Texas Eligibility Requirements '316 West Twelfth Street Any person with adommunication Austin, Texas 78701 problem. (512) 476-1919/2188 Contact Person Aram Glorig, M.D., Director Callier Center for Communication Disorders Volunteers for Vision, Inc. 1966 Inwood Road - Dallas, Texas 75235 (214) 638-1100 Contact Person .Mrs. Luci Johnson Nugent.. Volunteers for Vision, Inc. . 2313 Red River Street VocationalHomemaking Austin, Texas 78705 Teachers Association of Texas

Services Woman's Auxiliary to the The Vocational Homemaking Texas Medical Association Teachers Association of Texas strives to. encourage creative leadership in education and cooperates with the Services Texastdvcation Agency and other State The Woman's Auxiliary to the Texas agencies in developing vocational Medical Association consists of wives of education in the State. Texas physiCians. The sixty-nine county auxiliaries vary in the types of services provided to dhildren..Activities include safety education projects, preschool vision and hearing testing, and

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education about hygiene,' f{rlmunizatiori, Cities having community YWCAs are nutrition, and meal planni Abilene, Amarillo, Austin, Beaumont, Some auxiliaries train tnagers to be Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort corapetentbaby-sitters' the GEMS Woffh,Galvestop,Thuston, Lubbock, ,(Gbod Emergency Mot'r Substitutes) Paris, San Antonio, Texarkana, Waco program, and many work-with children and Wichita Falls. The college YWCAs whdhave learning disabilities. are at Southern Methodist University One widespread project has been. a. and The University ofTexas at Austin. battered child pieventive program:- contact Person auxiliaries organize groups which learn Susan S. Love . to recognize the potential battering Director, Southern Region' parent and Item hbW to help both Young Women's Christian parents and children. , Associatiog - A more recent project teaches 40 Marietta Street, N.W. schoolchildren proper nutrition and Atlanta, Georgia 30303 encourages schools to remove "junk" (404) 525-4658. foodimathinesfrom school buildings. Contact Person Amy Wilson, Auxiliary Secretary Women's Auxiliary to the Texas Medical Association '1801 North Lamar Austin, Texas 78701 (512).477-6704

Young Women's Christian" Association in Texas --- Services Each of the YWCAs in Tekad has a variety of serOices reflecting needs and C. interests of women in the locale, whidh include day Bare, play schools, swimming lessons, and health consumer education and skill training for young 0 parents. Some YWCAs work with planning councils and also are in coalition with local groups such as neighborhood organizations and mir),04ity groups, thus relating indirectly to issues in early' childhood developrheht. 'Corpus Christi, Fort Worth and San Anton Ware entering the third year of an Intervention Services program, funded by the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration.

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S. Forney Engineering (Dallas Area) Memorial Hospital System (Houston) 113 Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas' 113 #SantaiRosaMedical Center (San Antonio) 114 4 TOcas Medical'Cener (Houston) 114 University of Houston (Houston) 115

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1 believe that child care is a obtaining quality care fqr their low-income,families, and TRW, Inc., responsibility thakindustry should preschool children. Problems a Houston electronics firm, which take, and that community include no vacancies in,child care also sponsors child care for low- involvement is a behefit to the facilities or facilities that are too income families. company, to the employeesrto the expensive, no facilities located near By eslablishing centers to provide community itself." home or job, and do facilities open quality care while parents work, That statement by Ross Forney, for parents who work odd shifts, busirtsset have literally ''taken president of Forney Engineering of such as hospital employees. In fact, stock in Texas" and invested in Dallas, regeots the attitude of a few most of the businesses listed in this children." These businesses also businesselin Texas that have section are hospitals or hospital have noted certain Oonuses to established child care centers for complexes. themselves, such as a lower their employees. Not included hereare Liquid Paperabsentee rate among employees, The businesses listed in this Company of Dallas, which will open reduced employee turnover and a section, such as Forney Engi ring,its own center in 1976, Marie greater loyalty to the company:- are those which have recogni Poundafions in Pampa, which has "We hope that we have taken a itroblems their employees have in given financial support to a child step thgt others in the industry will care center,that serves employees in follow," Forney said: "We hope that the area; Zale CorporatIgn of Dallas, this willbecome an accepted, ich, thr Zale Foundation, mutually 6eneficial industrial is fin ing a chi d care center for practice in the United States." 112 4 All Saints Episcopal Hospital Baptist Memorial Hospital (Fort Worth) System (San Antonio) Employee Child Care Employee Child Care,

Services Services The All Saints Episcopal Hospital The Baptist Memorial Hospital System Child Care Facility began operation in - operates three hospitals at three 1960. but moved into its new building sepaiate sites in San Antonio. Two of the specifically designed for child care in sites, Northeast and Southeast, haVe 1969. The new building, with their own Child Care Centers. The playground, is losated across the Downtown hospital has a center in the parking lot from the hospital, planning stage. Each center is adjacent The facility is-licensed and has '- to and connected with the hospital it capacity for 108 children, ages 6 weeks serves, and each has its own ' to 14 years old. It provides twenty-four playground. The centers are governed hour care, seven days a week, and by a common policy. The Northeast before and after school care. There are center opened in 1970; the Southeast in three shifts per day:.7 am. to 3 p.m., 3 1971. p.m. eh 11Ap.m. and 11 p.m. to 7 am:The The two centers, bS licensed, have a facility and its programs are designed to total capacity of 72 c ren at any one r'neet.the needs of the whole child: time. Eachprovides care 17 hours a day, physical, mental and emotional. from 6:30 am. to 11:30 p.m., seven days Learning units are used, but a week, and serves several overlapping development of language, science, shifts' Children are accepted from 6 meth, music and art is encouraged weeks old to school 'age. everyday. All children in the center are invIved Parents are interviewed before each in,thePlay and learning process. Order child comes into the facility and as the children have art, science, music and need arises. The center does some language activities. The center's assessment and referral and will take activities approximate those of regular some exceptional (handicapped) family life, and the attempt is made to children if the handicap is not severe or work with each child's parents to disruptive. Parents participate in the life coordinate life at Mime and the center. of the center through specialevents. . Conferences with parents are held Two,parentare members of All Saints'' before each child comes into the center Nursery Committeewhich makes policy and continue as the need arises. Staff for the facility. All staff receive inservice receives monthly inservice training. training. Funding . Funding Building and staffing of the two child The present building was paid for care centers have been provided by the through a grant by the Sid Richardson Baptist Meniorial Hospital System. Fees. Foundation. Nominal fees are charged are charged employee parents: 54.90 per employee parents. All operating day per shift, which includes a meal and expenses not covered by fees charged snacks; $2.00 for care under four hours. parents are covered by the hospital. All operar ng expenses not covered by Admission Requirements fees charge is are covered by the All children accepted must be children hospital. of employees of All Saints Hospital. Admission Requirements Children of employees with critical Lobs Al children accepted must be children have first priority% of employees of the hospitatwhere they Contact Person work. Hazel West, Director Contact Persons ;Child Care Flipility Director Ail Saints Episcopal Hospital Child Care Center 1709 Ederly Place, North Northeast Baptist Memorial Hospital Box 31_ System Fort Worth; Texas 76101 8811 Village Drive 111: (817)0,26-2544 Ext. 276 and 277 San Antonio, Texas 78286 (5121653-2330, Ext. 297

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Director Admission Requirements are encouraged to join the Parents' Child Care Center The design has been to allow in 75 Organization for their nursery. The Southeast Baptist Mericral Hospaat percent employee-cnuoren, 25 percent eiKted Board of Directors of'the Parents System from the outside. Percentages have ' Organization co,nsists half of parents, 4214 East Southcross vaned somewhat, but the standard has half of nursery and hospital staff. The San Antonio, Texas78222 remained. Board acts in an adviscry,capecity to the (512) 337-6900, Ext. 297 nursery it serves. Insenrice training for Ages of Children staff goes on continuously.. 2 through 5 (or until school age). All entering children must be first level Funding toilet trained; younger children are Building and staffing of the four Forney Engineering accepted on a trial basis,. nurseries have been provided by the Memorial Hospital System. Fees are (Dallas Area)-Child Care Contact Person .Center charged empf67ee parents: $3.00 per Mary Grace Hutcheson, Director shift, Which includes meal and snacks, Child Development Center Services for the first child; $1.50 for every child Fomey Engineering thereafter. All operating exptnses not The Forney Child Development Center 3405 Wiley Ppst Road opened in August, 1973. It is located on- covered by fees charged parents are Box'189 covered by the hospital. site, in the company's building on its first Additon, Texas 75001 floor with an adjoining playground (214) 2331491' Admission Requirernents planned to further children's physical All children accepted must be children development. Full capacity of the center ' of employees of the hospital where they is 64 children, ages 2 through 51or ti .0.1 work. Children of employees with critical school age). The center is liceQsed: Its' Memorial Hospital System jobs have first priority after supervisory program is developmental, focusing on approval, on aspace-available, first -to- the children's self-image building; (Houston) Employee apply basis. vocabulary development; child-adult- Qhildteare Contact Person trust building; the understanding of Fay Peyton Services colors, shapes, numbers; concept Staff Coordinator for Nursing The Memorial Hospital System development; appreciation of the MemopalHospital System -operates four hospitals at foiir separate environment; and development of the 1100 Louisiana sites in Hotibten:Each has its own children's abilities to listen, understand Houston, Texas 77002 ' licensedDay Care Nursery, operated and follow directions. ,s,,(713) 224-7011, Ext. 3222 Conferences with Parents are . solely for its own employee parents and scheduled before the child first comes their children. Thepclest nursery is in into ttie center, when the childmoves the downtown hospital where it has been from one group to the other, and as the since 1955. Each nursery is adjacent to need arises. Group meetings with and connected wittthe hospital it Presbyterian Hospital. patents are held frequently and are serves, and each has its own of Dallas optional for parents. Employee-parents playground. The downtown nursery is Employee Child Care often use their breaks and lunchtimes to located on the fifth floor of the nursing see or sat with their children. residenceand has a unique rooftop Services In 1975, Texas Woman's University playground. The Presbyterian Hospital's Children's (TWU) conducted a free medical testing The four nurseries have a total Day Care Center has been in existence and nutrition program with thirty of the capacity of 130 children, more than half since 1968. It is now located in a centers children. of these at the downtown location. Each building immediately in back of the provides cape seventeen bourse day, hospital, built for the express purpose of,,, Funding from 6:30 am. tb i1:30 p.m., seven days child care and opened in February, 1975. Initial building and staffing of the a week, and serve seyeral Overlapping centerhas its own playground. center were provided at the expense of shifts. Children regularly are 3 icensed capacity of the center is fifty- Forney Engineering A fee of $25 per months old to school age, but- seven children per shift, with two shifts week is charged employee-parents, $30 aster school and weekend Care is per day: 6.30 am. to 3430 p.m., and 2.30 for outsiders. A half fee is charged when provided for children up to 9. p.m. to 11:30 p.m., five days a week. children are absent for a full'week Each nursery has planned activities Children are accepted from ages 6 Forney employees are not charged for throughout the day for their children. art,weeks old to school age. the period of their vacation All science, music and language activities. For children 6 weeks old to 3 years, a . operating expenses not covered by fees Routinely, staff encourage physical, general program of care and stimulation 'charged parents are covered by Forney emotional and social growth. There are is provided. For chndren 3 to school frequent field trips, and 'persons with. aged, a learning program using aopic particular occupations often come to chit approach is provided. talk to the children. The center has a parent advisory Conferences with parents are held committee ConSistipg.of lour parents, before each child comes Into the center . and continue as the need arises. 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4 two parents from each shift The social. Art and music activities and permanent building is now in the committee meets once a month, an,d frequent field trips are specialties of the planning stage.

parentsserve a period of four months. center. . The center is licensed and has , On twd occasions parents have beer. Conferences with pareV are held capacity for eighty-two children at any taught how tc .se the Parent-Child Toy before each chitd comes into the center one time. it or-malty serves children 3 Lending.Library at the center The and continue as the need arises. A months old to school age but takes centers staff gets continued training parent advisory committee of 10 to 15 children up to 7 years of age on with various agencies. orgar.:zator.s or members meets once a month. At the weeKends and holidays. it is open from 6 schools in the Dallas area end of each day, a written, individual am. to 12 midni6ht seven days a week. report on the day's activities goes home Funding Children in the center are given a with the parent of every infant General flexible. developmental program with' Hospital employees raised 5100.000 reports are posted at the end of each day for the centers new building. This was, great emphasis on etotional growth. fbr parents of older children supplemented by hospital hinds. Initial Parents are interviewed beiore each All staff are involvein monthly building and staffing of the center were child comes into the center, and inservice training sessions. pLovided by Presbyterian Hospital. Fees conferences-are arranged as the need Four times a year. nurses from the are charged employee parents: 54.00 per arises Parents also participate in the life University of Texas Nursing School day for the first child. 52.50 for each pf the center as part of the Nurses make free physical assessments. *acitlitional child which pays for nine Advisory Board. which acts in an including sight and hearing assessment, hours of care and includes one meal. advisory capacity to the center. of all children in the center_ Fifty cents is charged for every extra Exceptional (handicapped) children meal. All operating expenses not Funding can sometimes be accepted into the covered py fees charged parents are Initial building and staffing of the center if their restriction is not too covered by the hospital. center were provided by Santa Rosa severe and if the normal center activities Medical Center. Fees are charged do not have a detrimental effect on them. Admission Requirements employee parents: 60 cents ari hour for All children accepted must be children full time care for infants. which includes of employees of Presbyterian dospital.' one meal and two snacks per day; 45 Funding . Children of full-time employees have cenfs an hour is charged for children The establishment of the center and first priority. over 18 months. A second child Is its building were provided througha Contact Person charged 40 cents an hour. a third, 30 grant from the Laurence H. Favrot Priscilla Durkin, Director cents. Drop-in care is 75 cents an hour. estate. A new wing has beep built Children's Day Care Center Breakfast dusts an extra 50 cents. All through a grant from the Foley Brothers Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas operating expenses not coveredby Store Foundation. Fees are charged 8206Walnut Hill Lane . fees charged parents are paid by the employee parents from the Six medical Dallas, Texas 75231 ' hoipital. units the center serves:530 a week for a (214) 369 -4111 Ext. 4489 'child under 2; 525 a week fora child over Admission Requirements 2. All Operating expenses not covered by All children most be those of fees charged parents are covered, pm fimployees of Santa Rosa Medical rata on thp basis of enrollment, by the six 'Center; they are accepted on a space- medical units served. Santa Rosa Medical Center available, first-to-apply basis., (San Antonio) ContactPerson Admission Requirements All children accepted must be children Employeet hill Care Roselyn Gander, Supervisor of employees of one of six units in the SantiRosa Child Care Center Servicei Texas Medical Center: Ben Taub Box 7330 Station A The Santa Rosa Child Care Center , Hospital, Hermann Hospital, M.D. Martin and San Saba opened its doorsjn December 1973. The Anderson Hospital and Turn& Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78285 building and playground, designed The Methodist Hospital, Saint (512) 228-2596 specificallyps a*child care center,,are Luke's/Texas Children's Hospitals, or located withih the Santa Rosa Medical - Texas institute for.Rehabilitation and Center complex.. Research. Children of employees with a The center is licensed and has a high need {unusual shift requirements) capacity of 150 children per shift and Texas Medical Center have first priority, and approval must first serves children from 6 weeks old to (Houston) be obtained through the hospital. school age, but occasyally takes care Employee phild Care Contact Person of 'older, children. There are two shifts 'Linda Gibson- Lowery, Director per day:6 a.m. tp 2:30 p.m: and 3 p.m. to 'Services Texas Medical Center ' 11 p.m., severs days a week. The Texas Medical Center's child Child Care Center . The center's program is designid to care facility is located immediately 1200 Holcombe Boulevard meet.the needs of the whole child: across the street from the Medical Houston, Texas 77025 .physiCal, cognitive, emotional and Center. The center has been in a (713) 795-0654 , portable building, with playground, sinceit opened in July, 1968. but a

114 115" y 'tiniveisity of Houston University of Houston, Houston campus. : ,,(Houston)' Children of Students have first priority. Student and Employee Contact Person

Child Cafe . ,Jean Harmon, Director University of Houston Child Care Services Center Opened in February 1975 after a 3801 Cullen Boulevard feasibility study demonstrated the Houston, Texas 77004 severity of the need for campus child' (713) 749-4962 care, the University of Houston Child Care Center is located at the outer edge of the Houston campus. It is housed ict: three buildings, each with its owni playground. The center is licensed for 160 children at any one time and primarilyserves children 3 months old to school e but takes school aged children aftefsChool. (School aged children have their own progrpm during the summer.).The center is regularly open 7 am. to 9 p.m., five days a week. Th staff varies from 30 to 40, one-third of hom are students. Prdgrammin in'the center is dictated largely by stu ent-parent needs and childen's dev lopmentalneeds. Conferenc s with parents are held before the child first comes into the, center and as the need arises. Parents. also may participate in the life of the center through joining a parent group which meets occasionally at the center to talk about children's growth and other par' ent concerns. Student-parents are

A' also on the center's Child Care Advisory Committee. Staff enrichment sessions are held on a monthly basis. Exceptional (handibapped) children can sometimes be accepiedot the ,center if the child fits into the life of the center, and if the center can help the child and benefit from the, eRperience at the same time. A consultant for individual problems of children is available to the center when the need arises. Funding Initial building and equipment costs for thcenter were provided by the Univeriity of Houston. Money to make up the defioit for starting operation will be provided by Student Service Fees through the school year 1975-76. After . that time, all operating expen,ses will be paid out of fees charged parents. Fees are: 75 cents an hour or $20 for a forty- hour ppr week contract, per child. Admission Requirements All children accepted must be children of studehts, faculty or staff of the

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Table of Contents

Public Agencies' ,..t., , 118 I' Office of the Governor 118 Regional CounOs of Governments 118 interagency Task.Force on Youth Care. and Rehabilitation a 119 .Texes Commission for the Blind 119. IC ' . District and Caseworkers 119 Texas Department of Community Affairs 120 Community Assistance Projects: Early Childhood , 1 Development 120.

Regional Coordinators: Early Childhood Development 121 .

County Projects in Pareriting Education 121 *, Texas Committee on Early Childhood DevelopMent Careers - 121. 1 Head Stirt Programs -4.:. , 123 Head Sta egional Training Officers 125 Human Se Delivthry Division Contractors 1'25 Texas Commission on Services to Children and Youth 126 . , Texas Department of Health Resources 127 Regional-Offices- 127

Local Health Departments and Districts,: , 128. eia TeXas"Department of-Mental Health and Mental Retardation. ''' 4 130 State Hospitals and Outreach Centers 130 State Schools and Outreach Centers 132

Community Centers I-. i 134 40, State Centers for Human. Development / 1351 Rio GrandeState Center 135,-. , - .Texas Department of Public Welfare '136 Advisory Committee an Child Care Facilities. ,;.,..: 136

. I IF ; Regional Offices 136

Texas Education Agehcy . ,137. Advisory Council on Early Childhood Educatibn 137 Regional-Education Service Centers 137 . 1 Private Organizations 139 Child Welfare League of America: Texas Agencies 139 r .. Family Service Association of America: Texas Agencies 139 United Way: Community Planning Councils in Texas 140 Major United Way Organisations in Texas..: - 140

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Office of the GOvernor Regional Councils of Governments

a pa . Regional Councils of Governments Central Texas (CCTG5) are voluntary associations of Central Texas Council of Governments Charles A. Cass, Executive Director 'an local governments working together on P.O. Box 729 common problems. Each COG serves a Belton, Texas 76513 geographical area, called a "State (817)939-1801 planning region," which consists of toastalBend anywherebetween three and twenty-five Coastal Bend Council of dovernments dounties. (See map in Appendix.) For thettobert R. Weaver, Executive Director citizens and member governments in a 4600 Parkdale Drive, Suite g00 . State planning region, the,COG Corpus Christi, Texas 78411 (512) 854-3061 administers a variety of programs and 'D. servftes in such fields as criminal Concho Valley 0 0- Concho Valley Council of Governments justice, health, economic development,. James F. Ridge, Executive Director and land use. (For number of children 7 West Twohig Building under 6 served in State programs during San Angelo, Texas 76901. one year by State planning reglomee (915)653-1214 chart in Appendix.) COGs appeabelow Deep East Texas -- with State planning region. Deep East Texas Council of Governments Billy D. Langford, Executive Director Alamo 272 East Lamai Street Alamo Area Council of Governments Jasper, Texas 75951 Vt. Al J. Notzon, Executive Director (713) 383-5704 400 Three Americas Building San Antonio, Texas 78205- East texas (512) 225-5201 fi East Texas Council of Governments ,Don R. Edmonds, Executive Director Brazos Valley Citizens Bank Building, Fifth Floor Brazos ValleyDERtelopment Council Kilgore, Texas 75662 Glenn J. Cook, Executive Director (214) 984-8641 P.O. Drawer 4128 Bryan, Texas 77801 Golden Crescent (71$)822 -7421 Golden Crescent Councll.of Governments Robert W. Burr, Executive Director Capital P.O. Box 2028 Capital Area Planning Council 202 East Santa Rosa Richard G. Bean, Executive Director Victoria, Texas 77901. 105 West Riverside Drive, No. 248 (512) 578-1587 Austin, Texas 78704 - 0 (512)474 -2376

4 118 119 Gulf Coast South Texas 'Kenneth Gayer, M.D., Commissioner Houston-Galveston Area Council South Texas Development Council Texas Department of Mental Health and Royal Hatch, Executive Director "t Amando Garza, Jr., Executive Director Mental Retardation 3701 West Alabama P.O.. Box 1365 909.West Forty-fifth Street Houston, Texas 77027 Larello, Texas 78040 Austin, Texas 78756 (713) 6273200 (512) 722-3995 (512) 459-7315 Heart of 'Texas Texoma Jess M. Irwin, Jr.. Commissioner Heart otTexas Council of Governments Texoma Regiona' Planning Commission Texas Rehabilitation Commission A. K. Steinheimer, Executive Director Jerry W. Chapman, Executive Director 7745 Chevy Chase, Building No, 5, 110South Twelfth Street 1000 Arnold Boatyard Austin, Texas 78752 , .'Waco, Texas 76701 , Denison, Texas 75020 (512).452-8192 1(817) 7554631 (214) 786-2955 Ron Jackson, Executive Director Lower Rio Grande Valley tipper Rio Grande Texas Youth Council Lower Rio Grande Valley Council of West Texas Council of Governments MOO Shoal Creek Boulevard 11 Governments, . E;Ray Hill, Executive Director Austin, Texas 78758 Rqbert A. Chandler, Executive Director 1200 North Mesa (512) 475-5681 4 Suite 207, First National Bank - ' . El Paso, Texas 79902 MbAllen, Texas 78501 . (915) 50-3827 Robert Lanier, Citizen AdviSbr (512) 6823481 Main Bank West Central Texas Houston, Texas Middle Rio Grdnde West Central Texas Council of Governments (713) 228,0921 Middle Rio Grande Development Council -Bobbie T. Gallagher, Executive Director Richard P. Thomas, Executive Director P.O. Box 3195 Fratis L Duff, M.D.. Director P.O. Box 1461 3849 North Twelfth Street Texas Department of Health Resources Del Rio. Texas 78840 Abilene, Texas 79604 1100 West Forty-ninth Streej (512) 775-1581 (915)672-8544, Austin, Texas 787* (512) 454-3781 North Central Texas North Central Texas Council of Governments. Raymond Vowel!, Commissioner William J.pitstick, Executive-Director Texas Department of Public Welfare P.O. Drakifer COG Office of the Governor tJohn -H. Reagan Building ArlingtoiVexas 76011 Austin, Texas 78701 (512) 475-5777 ,(817.) 461.3300 , Interagency Task Force on. .ppq y North EastTexas Youth Care and'Rehabilitation Ark-TeX Council of Governments In October1973 the Governor James D. Goerke. ate utive Director State Commission for the Blind P.O. Box 5307 established by Executive Order the Texarkana, Texas 75501 Interagency Task Force on Youth Care' District Offices and' (214) 7944481 and Rehabilitation to Improve service' to Casewoykers- North Texai Texas' young people In the field of Nortex Regional Planning Commission torrectional care and rehabilitation, The State Commission kir the Blind Edwin B. Darner, Executive Director Task Force members are heads of provides a number of servides, including 9914 Kemp Boulevard agencies directly involved in youth medical care, training and counseling, Wichita Falls, Texas 7630,1 affairs. In addition, the Gcivernor to the visually handicapped through Its (817) 322-5261 , directed that support ba given from network of district offices. The following Panhandle other State agencies,,Inclpding the is a list of District Offices and Panhandle Regional Planning Commission caseworkers. . George Loudder, Executive Director Texas Department of Community Affairs P.O. Box 9257,. In the arbas of early childhood v Amarillo; Texas 79105 development, drugs, manpower and DiStrict One. (8b5)376-4238 employment programs. In Decdmber Amparo Zapata

Permian Basin 1974 the Taik Force Issued A Plan for 4410 Dillon Lane' . Permian Basin Regional Planning Child and Youth Care in Texas, Building Four, No. 20 Commission containing fourteen recommendations Corpus'Christi, Texas 78415 -(512) 854 -2361 Ernest W. Crawford, Executive Director primarily aimed at the prevention of P.O. Box 6381 District Two Midland, Texas 79701 problems in children andyputh, Judy Brunton (915) 663-1061 - 617 Seminary South Office Building

South East Texas . Chairman Fort Worth, Texas 76115 South EastTexas Regional Planning Kenyon F. Clapp, Executive Assistant (817) 926-8293 Commission Governor's Office District Three ,Don Kelly, Executive Director Capitol Building Caryl Veeder 3800 Highway 365 Austin, Texas 78711 Lee Ann Holaday Port Arthur, Texas 77640 x(512) 475.2131 712 North Washington (713) 727-2384 Dallas, Texas 75246 .P.O. Drawer 1387 M. L. Brockette, Ed.D Commissioner (214) 823-1700 Nederland, Texas 77627 ,Texas Education Agency . . 201.East Eleventh Street District Four South Plains' -. Austin, Texas 78701 Sarah Lou Wines South Plains Association of GovernMents" (512)475-3271 8313 South Broadway, No. 10 Truett Mayes Executive Director Tyler, Texas 75701 1811 Avenue (214) 592-6587 Lubbock, Te 79401 ' (806) 762-872

120 119' r . ; District Five District Fifteen specific needs of children under 6 and Mary Hom Billy Brookshire their families. 201 VFW Building Exchange Building Eleventh and San Jacinto 208 West Fiftp Street Lucite Hamptoh Austin, Texas 78701, Odessa, Texas 79760 ., (512) 475-2947 (915) 337-4491 t Falls County Parent-Child Centers P. 0. Box 809 District Six Districf Sixteen Marlin, Texas 76661 Susan Paris Alma Lizcano (81) 883-5531 1015 East Thomas Laredo Professional Building Room 103 1000 Corpus Christi Jim Stdakley, Director Pasadena, Texas 77506 Laredo, Texas.78040 Fort Bend County Office of Early Childhood (713)473-7683 (512) 723-2954' Development P.O. Box 1359 District Six District Seventeen Rosenberg, Texas 77471 Jennifer Kocyan- Suewellyn Turner (713) 342-5521, Ext. 81 Geri Rosenburg 804 Bryan 301 Old National Life Building Urban Building Judy Lee, R.N., Director' 5619 Fannin Street' Suite 210 Lift, Inc. Houston, Texas 77004 Amarillo, Texas 79106 P.O. Bdx 47 (713) 524-2857 (806) 372-2333 COockett, Texas 75835 (713)544-8276 District Seven District Eighteen Lyn Forsythe Suzanne Scott Jackie Roden, Director Judy Wright Devonian Building . Lamar County Early Childhood Development Esther Betz Suite 209 Program Cypressrtlower, Suits/11 310 North Willis Street . 2515 Bonham Street 1222 No Main Avenue Abilene, Texas 79603 Paris, Texas75460 San Antonio', Texas 78212 ' (915) 6735181 (214) 784-5071 (512) 223-3831 District Nineteen Rose Praisner, Executive Director District Eight Beverly Grantham PEDIA Cynthia Sue Johnson. 2605 Texas Boulevard Navarro County Consultation Center Family Park Shopping Center Suite 101 , P.O. Box 1735 3440 Avenue H Texarkana, Texas 75501 Corsicana, Texas 75110 - Lubbock, Texas 79404 4tio)793-6779 (214) 872 -2151 (80%762-0627 * District Twenty Kelly Jones, Director District Nine Billy Brookshire Polk County Department of Human Resources Geri Rosenburg First Savings Building 208 Church Street, Room 6 Port Holliday Mall Suite 1004 Livingston, Texas 77351 400 The Strand 103 South Irving (713)327-5697 Suite 204 San Angelo, Texas 76901 Galvestonjexas 77550 ' (915)655-6731 Christine Harris (713) 762 -8631. Early Childhood Project Director District Twenty-One San Patric io County Committee on Youth , District Ten Bessie Mae Spivey Education and Job Opportunities Janan Angevine 519 South First Street 624.Avenue Margudrite Greenan Lufkin, Texas 75901 -Sipton, Texas 78387 5100 Ei Faso Drive (713)634-7733 (512) 364-4155 El Paso, Texas 79905 (915) 779-6385 District Twent LTwo Francisco G. Zarate, Executive Director Mary Horn Community Action Council of South Texas District Eleven 1706-C East Twenty-Ninth Street. Drawer S Barbara Price Bryan, Texas 77801 420 East Main Street 710 Brook Place. (713) 823-7535 Rio Grande City, TeXes 78582 Wichita Falls, Texas.76301 (512) 487 -2585 (817) 723-2786 District Twenty-Three , Susan Lan,e David Duncan, Program Coordinator District Twelve 2601 Azalea 'Texas Panhandle Early Childhood Christina de la Garza. Village Office Building Development and Training Program -4, Diana Rosales Victoria, Texas npo 1 Panhandle Community Action Corporation 511 East Jackson Street (512) 575-2352 1605 West Seventh street Harlingen, Texas 78550 Amarillo, Texas 79102 (512) 423-9411 (806) 373-6681 District Thirteen Jean Maikowski, Day Care Project Director .Linda Harrison Texas Department of Coastal Bend Migrant Council 398 Peail Street Community Affairs 5001 Ambassador Row 401 Goodhue Building Corpus Christi, Texas 78416 Beaumont, Texas 77701 Cominunity Assistance (512)853-9907 (713)538-5201 Projects: Early Childhood Raul Martinez, Director District Fourteen Development Early Childhood Development Project 'Dorothy Mounce Colonleadel Valle 1706 Washington Avenue Several Texas communities, with P.O. Box 907 Waco, Texas 76702 technical assistance and limited funds' San Juan, Texas 78589 (817) 752-9771 from the Texas Department of (512) 787-4312 Community Affairs, started or expanded early childhood programs in response to

120 121 r. Bonifaclo Delgado, Director Texas Department Of Gloria Zamora Uano Estacado/Fan, workers of Tejas Community Affairs Division of Education 2014 Thirty-Fourth Street The University of Texas at San Antonio Lubbock, Texas 79411 County Projects in Parenting Route 1, Box 126F , (806) 762-0167 Bulverde, Texas 78163 - (Direttor Education Kathy Plated la, Vera Taylor , :Early Childhood Development Center Three Texas counties, with technical College of Household Arts and Sciences 1417 Home Boad Texas Woman's University Corpus Christi, Texas 78416 assistaiice and limited funds from the Denton, Texas 76204 (512) 853-6237 Texas Department of Community Affairs, (817) 387-6915 aredeveloPing projects to meet speCific Myrna Deckert, Executive Director Mary Ellen Durrett El Paso YWCA needs of parents in understanding child,.Department of Home Economics 1600 Wirth Brbwn growth and development. vsi% The University of Texas at Austin EL Paso, Texas 79902 Austin, Texas 787'12 (915) 533-7475 (512)471;4797 Tom Porter. Assistant Superintendent San Patricio Coctfify Nell Robinson Galveston Independent School District Christine Harris Home Economics Department P.O. Drawer 660 ' San Patrick) Committee on Youth Education Texas Christian University Galveston, Texas 77550 - and Job Opporturiities Fort Worth, Texas 76129 - (713) 765 -9366 624AvenueB Ann Garrett t - linton, Texas 78387 Sharon Cade, Director McLennan Community College Project IMAGINE (512) 364-4155, 1400 College Drive 2806 Apple by Road Lamar County Waco, Texas 76708 .N.aCogdoches, Teas 75961 (817),756-6551 1713) S.39-6683 Jackie Roden Faye Murphy County of Lamar - dyi Gerst, Director Tarrant County Junior College 2515 Bonham Community Action Council of Nolan County 828 Harwood Pads, Texas 75460 Box 276 t - Hurst, Texai 76053 (214) 784-5071 Sweeb4*er, Texas 79556 (817) 281 -7860 (916) 235-3314. Falls County B.J. Murdock City atRound Rock Lircile Hampton Vocational-Technical Education 214 East Main Street . Texarkana Community College,, Falls County Parent-Child Centers Round Rock, Texas 78664 2500 North RobisOri Road . P. 0.Box.809 (512) 255-3612 . Texarkana, Texas 75541 . Texas 7666V (214) 832-1611 ' Elaine Kretzschmar, Director (817) 883-5531 Christian Way Day Care Center JoePhillips 700 North High Street Vocational Technical Division"? ti Uvalde, Texas 78801 . Alvin Junior College (5121278-5113 . 3110 Mustang Road Texas Committee on Early Alvin, Texas 77511 (713) 331-6111,, Ext. 244 Childhood Development. '1 Annie McLain,tirict-Of Texas Department of Careers Skyline Cateer,DevetOpment Center Community Affairs The Texas Committee onEatly 7777 Foumey Road Childhood Development Careers was Dallas, Texas 75211 (214) 380-210 Regional Coordinators: formed in May 1975 to develop a Early Childhood Development comprehensive system for the Providers The Texas Department of Community preparation and recognition of Clara Wellbacher, Director 4 personnel charged with responsibility Affairs contracted with two regional , Kiddie Cottage, No. 3 Counes of Governmentp to hire a for young children. Staff for the 615 Pierce Street . ' San Antonio, Texas 78208 regional coordinator as an experiment In Committee is provided by the Early Childhood Development Division of (512) 224 -4148 . planning and coordinatirlg children's tne programs at the regional level. Texas Department of Commlinity Affairs. Janell Laechelin, DirebtOr .'Little Farm Scholl' , 5038 West Avenue . San Antonio, Texas 78213 Jim Robb :, , . Educators (512) 342 -5768 Regional Child and Youth Development 46 Coordinator - . Allee Mitchell HaiklMiller Texas Southem University South East Texas Regional Planning.. -:': . 229Aaint John Street Commission t. 2.. 3201 Wheeler Street San Antonio, Texas 78202 . P.O, Drawer 1387 ', Houston, Texas 77004 (512) 224-8659 Nederland, Texas 77620 (713) 527-7191 i (713) 727-2384 Janies Stricitiend, Director Bob Anderson 1" Child, Inc. Bill M 00re' = School of Education 8,18 East Fifty-Third Street Early Childhood Developmertt Coofdinator rekbsTech University) Austin, Texas 78751 Coastal Bend Council of Governments. 7703 Knoxville Drive --(02) 451-7361

P.O. Box 6609 . Lubbock, Texas 79413 Corpus Christi,Texas 78411 . (806) 742-2277 (512) 8544081 . , 122 121. a' iMalcolin Host. Director Linda Young Fort Worth, Texas 76107 Texas Sorge Economic4Aseociation Neighborhood Centers Day Care Association , .. AE97)335-2441_ 15027 Wellman P.O. Bax 88024 - 1-19uston. Texas 77004 Houston,texas 77037 arolino Carroll, Project Director . (713) 629-3931. ExL Dale Bulla Child Development Associate Program Early ChlkihoodPevelopment Divisido Texas State Teachers Association Pat Wright 'Tows Department of Community Affairs Dallas Independent tChool District Early Childhood Specialist 210 Barton Springs Road Fort Worth Independent Schools 2030 Gretioble Carrollton. Tau 75006 -Austin. Texas7/3704 - .3210 West Lancaster ' (512)475-036. Fort Worth.Texas 76107 (713).772-0354 (817)336-83 1 Billie McKee Jean English, Administrative Assistant Standards and,Policy Section Texas Aspocialion of Paraprofessionals Jotfn alez Licensing*Dvipion 8237 Fair Oak . Texasigket Council State Department of Public Welfare Dallas, Texas 75231 P.O. Box.255 John H. Reagan13ililding (214) 348-5688 - Clyde, Ohio 43410 Austin. Teias 787cll , (419)547-0051. Norma Stone .A512)475.8721 . Texas Coalition for Children ".-Abdon Ibarra Patricia Lindley, Assistant Director' Texas Migrant Council. . 15381 Nakoma Maas, Texas75209 Homemaking Education 2220 Santa Ursula Texas Education Agency (214) 352-7466 P.0.130x 917 201 Eitst Eleventh Street Laredo, Texas 7§340 John Holioman Terlas 78701 (512) 722-5174 National AssOciation otChildCare Administrators Interagiincy Panel Jeanette Rummel The University of Texas at San Antonio is Head Start Regional Training Officer Diyision of Education Jerry Southard Texas Southern University 4242 P4edras Dnve East Director of Programs tor Child CareServices 3201 Wheeler Avenue San Antonio, Texas78285 State Department of Public Welfare Houston, Texas 77004 John H. Reagan Bilking (512)01.4011 (713)527 -7338 Austin, Texas 78701 Conrad° Cruz (512) 475-6713 Ruth Marshdll 6 Texas Association of Community Actio,p Head Start Director Agencies Mabel Pitts 6300 Bowling Green . Child Development/Care Services. Laredo-Webb County Community Action Houston, Texas 77201 Agency State Department of Public Welfare (713) 748-4410 P.O. Box 736' )ohn H. Reagao Building Austin, Texas 78701 Laredo, Texas 78040 Virg lois Morriss, Director (512) 4755481 Jack and Jen Nursery Preschool (512) 722-0021 123 South McKown Texas Elemebtary Principals andSupervisors Glen French Sherman, Texas 75090. Association Program Director fcir Elementary Education . (214) 8910304 316 West Twelfth Street Texas Education Agency, Aujtin, Texas 78761, 201 East Eleventh Snot Organizations Austin,Texas 78701 . -Joe Frost / (512)475-2608 Marion Pratt ' Texas Association for Childhood Education Tem Association for the Education of Yolig Carroll Parker, Consultant -Children Department of Curriculum and Instruction The University of Texas at Austin Post-Secondary Occupational Education 'Department of Home Economics and Technology .Texas Christian University Austin, Texas 78712 (512)471-1630. Texas Education Agency- 5116 Crown Road , 201 Eastgleyf3nth Street Fdrt Worth, Texas 76114 Austin as 18101 Cecilia Blackstock . . (817) 926 -2461, Ext. 474 National Child Development Associate (512) 475-42 . (CDA)Consortium Myrh marsod . . Drawers. Eugene Buc ley. Director Texas eptaly, Kindergarten and Nursery Data Manag ment and Research Educators -Freeport, Texas 77541 * (713) 265.6181 Coordinating Board.. Arlington Public §chools Texas College end University System 1203 Pioneer Parkway Agencies - Planner's Eleventh Floor 4 . Arlgigton, Texas 76013 L.B.J. State Office Building (817) 274-7354 doAndertoh it Austin, Texas 78701 Regional Office of Human Development (512) 475-3413 Mike Zaccaria, Director U.S. Department; of Health, Educatron TexasLicensed Child Care Association and Wellare ' Ricrd Ortbn, Assistant Director 3030u111 Drive Eait 15Q% Pacific -Early Childhood Development Division San Antonio, Texas 78228 Dallas, Texas 75201 Texas DeparMent of Community Affairs '(51,2) 432-8143 N (214) 747-0684 .210 Barton SlIMIngs Road , Jill Sh.aw Austin, Texas 78704 Child Care 76 0 Deanna Tate (512) 475-5833 6711 Homwtgid, No. 269 Teacher Educator for CPA Programs . - Houston. Texas 77026 Texas Education Agency (713) 772-3752 EPD Consortium D `P.O. Box.1300 4 Billy° Free6aritl 09" Richardson, Texas 75060 1 4 Vocational Homemaking Teachers (21,4) 23-8179 Association of Texas 10704 Vista Lomas Maxine Kamenitsa 4 El Paso, Texas 79835 Region XI Edupation Service Center a. (915) 596- 2821 CUllen Sfreet ,. 122 123 . . A

Karen Bordelon, Project Ditector Community Services. Inc. Terrell Independent School District Child Deveiopmenl Careers.Program Jerome Vacek, Head Start Director Anderson Baker, Head Start Director Earfygaiildhooil Development _Division P.O. Box 612 P.O. Box TO Texis Department of Community Affairs Corsicana, Texas 75110 Terrell, Texas 751613 210 Barton SPrings Rbdd - (214)1174-569r (214) 563-2746 Austin. Texas 78704 DetrON School District ' (912) 475-6386 Denison Independent School District DennigRundles, Head Start Director Bill Blanttenship, Head StartDirector Sheila Tesar (Ex-officio) P.O. Box 69 . Director of Community College Teething Detroit, Texas 75436 800 South Mirick Avenue -Intern Prog rant (214) 674-4245 Denison, Texas 75020 Education Building 310 (214) 465-4244 The University of Texas at Austin Economic Opportunities Advancement Austin, Texas 78712 Corporation Planning Region XI '- Tyler Independent School District 1512) 471-7551 ' Mildred P. Johnson, Head Start Director Warre Boshears 1101 Washington Avenue 12,0Box 2035 Waco, Texas 76701 Available as Coniultants Tyler, Texas 15701 (817) 753-5,124 Charles Cotten (214)597-2916 Regional Office of Human Development Dallas County ComMun&Action U.S. D?partment of Health, Education Committee, Inc. North Lamar Independent School District and Welfare John Harris, Head Start Director BettY'Syvendle 4009 Elm Street 1507 Pacific P.O. Box 68. Dallas, Texas 7521 Dallas, Texas 75226 Powderly, Texas 75473 (214) 749-2491, Ext 2616 (214) 824-5261 (214) 785-5613 A Eugene Howard 4 gconorilic Opportunities Advancement- Early Childhood EduCition Corporation of Cottle. Foard. Haldeman, Community Council of Cass, Marion and and Wilbarger Counties StephenF Austin'State,Un,iyerpty Morris Counties. Inc Felix Taylor. tread Start Director P.O. Brix 6072 NO. Box 546 Myrtle Lewis Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Crovelljexas 79227' pp,. Box 427 '(713) 569-4006 (817) 6844511 Linden. Texas 75563 (214) 756-5596 Madeline Mandell, Executive Director Community Action Agency of Nacogdoches, Dallas Day Care Asiociation Inc. Metropolitan Elallas Nancy Hurst, Head Stait Director Depton Independent School District 3107 Routh P.O. Box 925 Vi&dro%;,/ Wilson Elementary School Dallas, Texas 75201 ,Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Marilyn Roberson (214) 747-4206 (713) 564-2568 1501 Emerson Denton, Texas 76201 Billy Pope, Director Community Action Resource ServiCes, Inc. (817)-383-9313 EPD Consortium D Carolyn Gooch, Head Start Director P.O. Box 1300 1510 Plum Street . Richardson, Texas 75080 Tekarkan a, Texas 75501 Fairfield Independent School District (2114) 238-8179, (214) 7,94-3386 Maurice Btrlesoh, Head Start Director Edward Vodicka, Assistant Director P.O. Box 758 .. , 0 Day Care Association Fairfield; Texas 75840 Division of Teaphe; Education - John Widner, Head Start Directo7 (214) 389-2532 Texas Education Agency 2807"Race Street 201 East Eleventh Street Fort Worth. Texas 76111 Austin, Texas 78701 S North Texas community Action Corporation (817) 831-0374 (512) 4753236 Dorthea Pasqua Tri-County Community Action Agency, Inc. P.O. Box 636 Texas Department 9f Analea Rawson, Head Start Director Gainesville, Texas 76240 322 Shelbyville (814) 665-4349 Community Affairs Center, Texas 75935 (713) 598-2620 Head Start Programs Plano Independent School District Palo Pinto Community Service Corporation Geraldene Haggard The federal Office of Child Patricia Crabtree, Head Start Dirpctor 1517 Avenue 11 Development, Department of Health, '6 1 4 Northwest Fourth Street Plano, Texas 75074 Mineral Wq,fis, Texas 76067 Education and Welfare, funds (214) 424-5602 community action agencies, (817) 325-M61 bdependent school districts and other CAUSE,i Central Region nonprofit organizationscalled . Daisy Chaff, Head Start Director grantees to operate one or more HeadP 0 Box Brazoria County Welfaie Planning'Council Hillsboro, Tex 76645 , Evelyn Moore, Head SIgrt Director Start programs. Granteal and Directors (817) 5824423 of full-day, full-year Head .WLprograms 200 East Locust Street Rusk-Cherokee Community Action Angleton, Texal 77515 in Texas are listed bare by Head Start Program, Inc. (713) 849-5711 Eit.245 71raining Regions. Lula F. Warmsley, Head Start Director r P.O. Box 1107 Centerville Indtapendent School District North Region Henderson, Texas 75652 James Boozie, Head Start Director ' (214) 586-3519 P.O. Box 218 East Texas Human Development Corporation Centerville, Texai 75$33 Tom McCluFg, Head Start Director Bonham IndePerident Schdol District (214) 536-2625 .Z. W. Trout, Head Start Director P.O. -Box 1343 , P.O. Box 490 Marshall, Texas 75670 1214) 93436609' Bonham, Texas 75418 / - (214) 583-5526 1,2 4 123. 11;

Economic Act= Committee of Orchard independent School District EConornic Opportahtes Development Matagorda County Jim Kinser Derr. HeadStart Director Corpeoration of Frio, LaSee. and Sue Houston, Head Start Director Box E -McMulien Counties P.O. Box 1 CZ& Wallis, Texas 77 485 Luis Perez Bay City, Texas 77414 (713) 478-6832 P.O. Box 42 (713)245-6901 Miley, Texas 78017 Leon County Board of School Trustees (512)965-7628 Seguin Day Care Center John Bullock. Head Start Director Marjorie Chambers, Head Start (*actor P.O. Box 277 Community Action Council of South Texas 205 East Weihert Cenkenrilie,-Texas 75833\ Franctsco Zarate, Head Start Director Seguin. Texas713155 (214) 322-4243 P.O. Drawer S (512) 379-2636 or 379-2663 Rio Grande City, Texas 78582 Liberty Independent School District (512) 487-2535 Economic. Opportunities Development E. L Cox. Head Start Director Corporation of SaWitonio and P.O. Box 671 Community Council of Bee 'County Bexar County Liberty, Texas 7575 Saragoza Martinez Head Start Director Blanche Russ, Head Start Director P.O. Box 1049 (713)339 -3582 P.O. Box 9313 Beeville, Texas.78102 San Antonio, Texas 78285 Jefferson County Economic Opportunity (512)358-8E68 . (512)226-6232 - Commission, Inc. Community Action Corporation of Economic Opportunities D4veloprnefit Sandra Taylor, Head Start Director South Texas Corporation of Atascosa. Karnes and 525 Buford Street Lydia Gonzales, Head Start Director Wilson Counties Rosary Hall ' P.O. Box 1820 Mary Brandesky, Head Start Director Beaumqnt. Texas 77701 Alice, Texas 78332 Drawer C (713)983.4936 (514E84-0146 ora4-9879 100 South Second Street Galvdston County Community Action Associated City-County Economic Kenedy, Texas 78119 Council, Inc. (512) 5.8345.1:49 Development Corporation of Robert Hoskins, Head Start Director Hidalgo County City of Victoria Department of Community 5801 Broadway Joe Sanchez. Head Start Director Galveston. Texas 77550 Affairs Head Start P.O. Box 1198 . Peggy Schaefer, Head Start Director (713)744.6348 Edinburg, Texas 78539 401 Souttl Depot Alabama-Coushatta Tlibal Counc il (512) 383 -8171 Victoria, texas 77901. Rolind Poncho (512) 578-1508 San-Patricio County Committee on Youth Head Start Director Education and Job Opportunities Child,Inc. Route 3, Box 640 David Valdez, Head Start Director James Strickland Livingston, Texas 77351 111 North Odem Avenue (713)563 -4391 Plead Start Director . Sinton, Texas 78387 8221/2 East Fifty-Third Street Harris County Community Action Association (512) 364-4800 or 364-1102 Austin, Texas 78702 Ruth Marshall, Head Start Director (512) 451-7391 Nueces County Community Action Agency 6300 Bowling Green . Rene Ramirez, Head Start Director Community Actibn, Inc. of Hays, Houston, Texas 77021 3105 Leopard, Suite 1 Caldwell and Blanco Counties (713) 748.4410 or 741-2860 Corpus Christi, Texas 78406- John Roberts, Head Start Director Wharton Independent School District (512) 883-7201 P.O. Box 644 Joe Urbanovsky, Head Start Director Stm Marcos, Texas 78666 P.O. Box 1240 Rocksprings Independent School District (512) 392-6658 Wharton, Texas 77488 Jo W. Connell, Head Start Director P.O. Box 157 Bastrop County Community Action Inc. ' (713) 532-2922 Mule Blackman, Head Start Director RocksprIngs, Texas'i8880 West Orange Cove Consolidated P.O. Box 573 -(512) 683-4686 Sniithville, Texas 78957 Independent School District a. Myrtle Richardson, Head Start Director . (512) 237-2271 Eagle Pass Independent School District P.O. Box 1107 se De Luna "Williamson-Bumet County Opportunities Inc. Orange; Texas 77633 .0. Box 1409 Flogene Ebeling, Head Start Director (713) 888-4462.,\ -() P.O. Box 7A0 Eagle Pass,,Texas 78852 Georgetown,Ipxas 78626 South Region (612) 773-95/5 (512) 863- San Felipe-Del Rio Consolidated A & M Consolidated Schools Independent School District San Diego Independent School District H. R. Bu met, Head Start Director Joe P. Brown, Head Start Director' Alicia Stasell 100 Anderson Street Drawer 1229 609 Labbe Avenue College Station, Texas 77840 Del Rio,Texas 78840 San Diego, Tdxas 78384 (713) 848-8893 dr 846-8655 (512) 775-9561 (512) 279-3343 %Brazos Valley Community Action Program Laredo-Webb County Community Cameron-Willaoi Counties Projects, Inc. Sharon Kelley, Head Start Director Action Agency Fred Galindo, Head Start Director 306 West Twenty-Eighth Street Shirley Gutierrez, Head Start Director 940 East Wash ingtorr, Suite 204 . Bryan, Texas 77801 PO. Box 736 Brownsville, Texas 78520 (713)822-1302 Laredo, Taxa., 78040 (512)546-3163 (512) 722-0021 Wallis Independent School District West Region Nelson Kieke, Head Start Director Community Council of Southwest Texas, Inc, fox Josue Garza South Plains Community Aciion Wallis, Texas 77485 Drawer 1709 Aspciation, Inc. (713)478-6814 tivaidei, Thu.478/1.01 Waltbrfleed, Head Start Director

(512)278-6268 , P.O. Box 610, City Park 6 Levelland, Texas 79536 (806) 894-3649, 124 125 A Lamesa-Dawson County Community Convnunity Action Program, WestRegion Action Council Inc., of Taylor County Mary Torn Riley Poet Evertieart,Head Start Director Mary Island P.O. Box 4170 P.O. Box 96 520 North Ninth Street Texas Tech University Lamesa, Texas 79331 Abilene, Texas 79601 Lubbock, Texas 79407 (606)8725354 (915) 6723653 (806) 742-6296 Torn Green County Community Lubbock Independenttchool District TEX-AN 842-6293 Action Council Warner Snms, Head Start Director Davis Edwards, Head Start Director 1628 Nineteenth Street 815 North Randolph San Angelo, Texas 76901 Lubbock, Texas 79401 (915)655-1871 (806) 747-2641 TexasiDepartment of Community Affairs Texas Panhandle Community Community Action Board In . Action Corporation Lubbock-County, Inc. Jack Edmonson, Head Start Director Torn Oxford Human Service Delivery 1601 South Cleveland Street Head Start Director pivision Contractors Amarillo, Texaspicd - 1717 Avenue K. Room 206 (806)37217912 Lubbock. Texas 79401 The Human Services Deliveryblvision (836) 763-5261 of the Texas Department of Community Midland Independent School District Affairs contracts with asocial service Royce Austin, Head Start Director StonewalHead Start. Inc. agency in each of the.Governor's 702 North N Street Rev. Kent Bghlei, Head Start Director Midland, Texas 79701 Trinity Lutheran Church t twenty-four planningregions (see (915)683-6176 Stonewall, Texas 78671 Appendix for map) to improve the way Greater Opportunities of the (512)644.2479 human services such as health care, Permian Besin. Inc. child care, and family counseling are Betty Jo Mitchell. Head Start Director given to people of-all ages. The P.O. Box 3922 contractors areilsted by planning Odessa. Texas 79760 Head Start Regional . region. (915) 332-6760 Training Officers Fredericksigirg Chilft;elopment Agency Mil Texas has four Regional Training Vera A. Fiedler, Head Start Director Officers (RTOs), each of whom Alamo 312 West San Antonio Economic Opportunities Development Fredencxsburg, Texas 78624 coordinates Head Start activities within Corporation of San Antonio and Bexar (512) 997-5433 a training region. RTOs serve as liaison County between local Head Start programs, the Edmu ndo M. Zaragoza, Director try Community Action' federal regional Office of Child Angel Rodriguez, Human Services Delivery Association, Inc. Coordinator Development,.U.S. Department of Fr n burg, Head Start Direck,7 P.O. Box 9326 P. x846 Health, Education and Welfare In Dallas, San Antonio, Texts., 78204 San Saba, Texas 76877 and the Texas Department of (512) 222-0231 (915) 372-5167 Community Affairs. Brazos.' El Paso, Community Action-Program Brazos Valley Community /lotion Agency Project BRAVO, Inc. Dale Marsico,Di Guillermo Acosta, Head Start Director 308 West Twenty-E-ghth Street 716 North Piedras South Region Bryan, Texas 77801 El Paso, Texas 79903 (713)822-1302 (915)566-6711 ArnoldgBenavides Capital Central Texas Opportunities, Inc. Pan American University Edintiurg, Texas 78539 Capital Area-Human Services, !tic., General Humphrey, Head Start Director COnsortiurry'F''' P.O. Box 820' (512)381-2571 TEX-AN 826-2571 Melia Vasquez, Director, 'dolemart, Texas 76834 11 Waters, Human Services Delivpry (915)625-4167 ,North Region Coordinator Big Spring Independent School District P.O. Sox 644 Jean Carroll I Keith Swim, Head Start Director San Marcos, Texas 78693 Texas Woman's University 708 Eleventh Place (512)3925658 1) Box 24131 TWU Station Big Spring, Texas 79720 Denton, Texas 76204 Central Texas- (915) 267-8245 (817) 772-5620 HIll Country Community Action Big Bend Community Action '' Astociation, Inc. e, Committee, Inc. Central Region Fred G. Wittenburg, Jr., Director MauFene Romero, Human Se rvicei Robbie L Fellows4Head Start Director Jeanette Rummel P.O. Box 285 Delivery Coordinator Texas Southern University P.O. Box 846 . Uarla, Tiyas 79643 3201 Wh'eeler Avenue (915) 729-4908 San Saba, Texas 76877 Houston, Texas 77004 (915)372-5167 Community Council offieeves (713)527-7338 COunty Head Start Holly Henderson, Head Start Director Box 165 Saragosa, Texas 79780 (915)375-2535 *126 125 Coastal Bend Lower Rio Grande South East Texas Community Action Corporation of Associated City - County Economic Economic OppNbArtIty Conimission of South South Texas 'Development Corporation of Hidalgo East Texas, Inc. Gonzalo Chapa. Jr- Director County D. Gene Valentina, Director Lydia Gonzalez, Human Services Eliseo "Cheo" Sandoval, Director Barbara Polk, Human Services Delivery Delivery Coordinator P.O. Box 1198 Coordinator P.O. Drawer 1820 Edinburg, Texas 78539 P.O. Box 968 Alice, Texas78332 (512) 383 -8171 Port Arthur, Texas 77640 (512) 664-0145 (713) 983-4936 County of Hidalgo Concho Valley Jude Ramiro M. Guerra South Plains Kimble County Commissioners Court County Courthouse , South Plains Community Action Association, Judge Wilbur R. Dunk Edinburg, Texas 78539 inc. Kimble County Courthouse- (512) 383-2751 Howard Maddera, Director Junction, Texas 76843 John Gildersleeve, Humantervices (915)446-2724 Lower Rio Grande Valley Derelournt Delivery Coordinator Council P.O. Box 610, City Park , Deep East Texas Robert A.,Chandler, Executive Director Levelland, Texas 79336k Deep East Texas Council of Governments Suite 207, First National Bank Building (806)8946104 Billy D. Langford, Executive Director McAllen, Texas 78501 . Connie Fowler, Human Services (5117) 682-3481 Sbuth Texas Delivery Coordinator Laredo-Webb County Community P.O. Drawer 1170 Middle Rio Grande Action Agency Jasper. Texas 75951' Community Council otSouthwest Texas Conrado Cruz, Jr., Director `1(713) 384-5704 C. 0. Smith, Actingbirector Martha Alice Vine, Human Services P.Q. Drawer 1703 ' Delivery Coordinator Nacogdoches Treatment Center for Uvalde, Texas 76301 P.O. Box 736 Handicapped Children and Adults, Inc. (512) 278-6268 Laredo, Texas 713040 Ms. Scotty Sherrill. Director (512) 722-0021 119 Hughes North Central Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Dallas CotInty Community Action Tema (713) 50-7173 Committee, Inc. Terme Regional Planning Commission Willis Johnson, Director Jefry W. Chapman, Executive Director _East Texas John Richards, Human Services Delivery Larry Cruise, Human Services Delivery East Texas Council of Governments Coordinator Coordinator Don Edmonds, Executive Director 2000 Ndrth Central Expressway lox) Arnold Boulevard Ron Cox. Human Services Delivery 4 Dallas, Texas 75204 Denison, Texas 75020 Coordinator (214)826-8520 (214) 786-2955 Citizens Bank Building INorth East Texas Kilgore, Texas 75662 Upper Rio Grande aw. (214)984-8641 Ark -Tex Council of Governments El Paso Community Action Program-ProieCt James D. Goerke, Executive Director Bravo, Inc. Golden Crescent Jack L. McCoy, Human Services Delivery Jose L Aguilar, Director City of Victoria, Department of Coordinator Mt. Kay E. Rigg, Human Services Delivery Community Affairs P.O. Box 5307 Coordinatcy Ronald P. Buie, Director Texarkana, Texas 75501 716 North Piedras Street Donald L Polzin, Human Services (214) 794-3481 El Paso, Texas 79903 Delivery Coordinator (915)566.6711 P.O. Box 2142 North Texas Victoria, Texas 77901 Community Action Corporation of Wichita West Central Texas (512) 573-2401 Falls and North Texas Area Central Texas Opportunities, Inc. Angus Thompson, Director Mike Zuniga, Director Gulf Coast Bob Mowery, Human Services Delivery P.O: Box 820 City of Houston Coordinator Coleman, Texas 78834 Dr. Walter L Jones, Director' 602 Broad Street (915) 625-4167 Lillian Eunice, Human services WichitaFalls, Texas 76301 Delivery Coordinator (817) 723-8186 500 Dallas One Allen Center, Nineteenth Floor Panhandle Texas Department of Houston, Texas 77002 Texas Panhandle Community Action (713) 222 -4976 Corporation Community Affairs Argus A. Bumett, Director Harris County Community Action Association Jesse Moses, Human Services Delivery Texas Commission on . Mario D. Silva, Director Coordinator 6300 Bowling Green 1605 Westteventh Services to Children and Youth Houston, Texas 77021 Amarillo, Texas 79102 (713) 748-4410 (806)372 -2531 The Commission on Services to Children and Youth was created by the Heart of Texas' Permian Basin Texas Legislature in 1971. The Economic Opportunities Adv,ancement Wett Texas Opportunities, Inc. Corporation of PlOning Region XI Janet Everheart, Director Commission works to coordinate Thurrpan Dorsey, Director P.O. 50x 96 matters pertaining to citizens 0-24 years 1101 Washington Avenue , LaMeS61, Toxas 79331 of age. Membership consists of twelve Waco, Texas 76701 (806) 872-8354 .adults, six youths u nder 21, and ,(81')153-0331 directors of eleven state agencies and . commissions.

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Lay Members Fred Shannon - Texas Rehabilitation Commission 131st District Court Robert C. Lanier. Chairman - , Jassy). Irwin, Jr., Commissioner Bexar County Courthouse 1907 River Oaks Boulevaid Randy Jennings. Representative San Antonio: Texas 78204 Houston, Texas 77019 1301 West Thirty-Eighth Street (713)228-0921 (512)220-2521 ., Austin, Texas 78705 John Skaggs (512) 452-8192 NancY Ewald, Vice Chairman 2400 Leon Route 4,13or381 A Texas Youth Council Austin, Texas 78705 It Seguin, Texas-78155 Ron Jackson, Director (512) 474-7979 (512) 557-576e Clint Kersey, Representative 1005 Sam Houston Building Carolyn Watkins Dr. Thomas D. Hom Austin,''Texas 78701 1411 D College Drive Department of Curriculum and I nst/ction A (512) 475-5801 , Education Building Waco, Texas 76708 Room 406-Mail (817) 756-0112 Room 334 N-Oftice EX officio Members The University of Texas . Austin. Texas 78712 Texas Commission for the Blind Texas Department of,Health (512) 471 -4041 Burt Risley, Executive Director Resources Julia Young, Representatft Vicki Lynn Baker P.0.15.dx 12855 2744 South Jones Regional Offices, Austin, Texas 78711 Fort Worth, Texas 76104 (512) 474 -1901 (817) 924-3514 Texas Department of Health Coordinating Board Resources has divided Texas Into ten Dr Richard G Brassard Dr_ Kenneth Ashworth, Commissioner public health regions, six otf which are 425 Worth-Fourth Street .Col. Wilbur Hurt, Representative Beaumont, Texas 77701 fully operational. The regional office Is P.O. Box 12788 (713) 833-3080 staffed by a director and specialists Austin, Texas 78711 responsible for the Department's various Sam Chappel (512) 475-4361 2913 State Road programs, including inimunIzatIons, Texas Departnient of Correction's 109 North Lot B4 maternal and child health, and dental W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director Anderson, Indiana 46012 Huntsville State Prison edudation. Teresa Dunlap HUntsville, Texas 77340 2509 Seventeenth Street (713)295.6371 -4- - Plano, Texas 75074 Texas Education A,gency John P. BOard, Jr., M.D. (214) 423-3192 Dr. M. L Brockette, Commissioner Public Health Region 2 texas bepartrnent of Health Reptyces Thelma Villan aka Gavin, Dr. Charles Nix, Representative 3411 Knoxville 2006 Amnon Drive 20? East Eleventh Street t"- Lubbock, Texas 79413 San Antonio, Texas 78213 Austin, Texas 787b1 (806) 797-4331 (512) 224-4488 (512) 475-3271 - John L Bradley, M.D. Rhonda Sue Graff Texas Employment Commission t Public Health Region 3 1606 Twenty-Second Street Harold Dudley, Chairman Texas Department of Health feSOUrCaS Hondo, Texas 78861 Everett Merrell, Representative P.O. Box 10736 -_7 (512) 471-3095/471-5501 101 East Fifteenth Street 1, - Austin, Texas 78778 El Paso, Texas 79997 Mary.Rale (512) 472-6251 (915) 7793531 4519 Melissa Myron J. Woltjen, M.D. Dallas, Texas 75229 Texas Department of Health Resources Public Health Region 4 (214) 350-9397 Fratis L Duff, M.D., Director Eleanor Eisenberg, Representative Texas Department of Ifealth resources Brenda Jeffers 1100 West Forty-Ninth Street .Second Floor, Old Courthouse 1411 D College Drive Austin, Texas 78756 Abilene, Texas 79602 Waco, Toles 78708 (512)452-3601 4(915)673-5231 (817) 756-0112 Texas Department of Mental Health and Lax T.Neill, M.D.- Mrs. John T. Manly, III Mental Retardation . Public Health Region 7 3002 San Felipe Kenneth D. Gayer, M.D., Commissioner Texas Department of Health Resources Houston, Texas 77019 Charles LOcklin, Representative P.O. Box 2003 (713) 528-5069 P.O. Box 12668 Tyler, Texas 75701 Austin, Texas 78711 . (214)877-3111 (eary.f.ffelissa Pratka (512) 459-7315 .13702 Kingsride Rodger G. Smyth, M.D. Houston, Texas 77624 Texas Department of Public-Wel/are Public` leetth Region 9 - (713)476-9027 Raymond W. Vowell, Commissioner Texas Department of Health Retources David Bear& Representative P.O. Drawe?630 Mrs. Charley Pride John H. Reagan Buildiqg Uvalde, Texas 78801 11030 Ruiswood Circle Austin, Texas 78701 (512) 278-6605 Dallas, Texas 75229 (512)475-1777 (214) 691-0742 Paul W. Musgrave, M.D. ,Texas Department of Public Safety Pu(ilic Health Region 10 Mrs. C. V. Rice -..'etrrWilson E. Spelr, Director Texas Departmeht of Health Resources 2701 Rosedale R. W. Hu len, Representative P.O. Box 592 La Marque, Texas 77568 P.O. Box 4087 Harlingen, Texae8550 (713) 935 -5622 Austin, Texas 78773 (512) 423-0130 (512)452.0331 0

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. Texas Department otHeelth lOoridS. hityers, M.D., Director E. Lowt1 Berry.MDR Director Bell County Health Department Dallasityl3pblic Health Dectartment Resources P.O. Box 3745 .1933 Amelia Court 503 South Ninth Street Dallas, Texas 75235 Local HealthDep;4quints Tornio-le, Texas 76502 (214)633-7670 and DistrictS (8t7)7-4-4766 , J. M. Pickard, M.D.. Director A local health unitis an organized G. B. Brown, Jr, MgD, Acting Direct or Dallas County Health Department health service within a city or cities, Brazoria County Health Department '1936 Amelia Court Old Courthouse within a county or counties. ithas full- Dallas, Texas 75235 Angleton, Texas 77515 (214) 638-7670 time, (lathed public health personnel (713)849-5711 consisting of at least at medical director, Mary Jo Tonelli, M.D., Director George R Mcllhaney. Mia, Acting Director Denison-Shennari-Grayson County Health -a public health iturseri a sanitarian, altd Brazos County Health Department an office clerk; it may also include other Department Codrthouse Annex 4- P.O. Box 1295 health Orsonnel and specklists. The 25th and Washington 521 West Houston unit may be supported by a combination Bryan, Texas 77801 Sherman, Texas 75090 (713)822-7373 of state and local funds. in addition to (214) 893-0131 local health departments, 454 Texas . Ailan J. Spence, Mt Acting Director James H. Jones, MD., Acting Director cities and 191 counties hire their own Brownwood-Brown County Health Denton City-County Health District Department health officers. The names of city and 221-North Elm Street Box 269,100 Melivood *aunty health officers may be obtained Denton, Texas 76201 Brownwood, Texas 76802 (817) 387-3559 from the Division of Local Health (915) 646-7602 Services, Texas Department of Health Bernard F. Rosenblum, M.D., Director Pattie M. Dodson, M.D., Acting Director Resources. El Paso City-County Health Department Calhoun County Health Department a 222 South.Campbell 111 West Ash Street El Paso, Texas 79901 Port Lavaca. Texas rr919 (915) 543-3833 Curzon C. Ferris, Jr., M.D,Acting Director (512) 552-9721 - Abilene - Taylor County Health District - Walter E. Culpepper, M.D., Acting Director 2241 South Nineteenth Street John R Copenhaver, M.D., Director Fort Bend Coupty Health Department Abilene, Texai 79605 Cameron County Health Department P.O. Boxsea (915) 692-5600 186 North Sam Houston Boulevard 3409 Avenue F San Benito; Texas 78586 Rosen berajex_ ai77471 G. Mason Kahn, M.D., Director (512) 399-1356 Amino Bi-City-County Health Department (713) 342-6411' (Potter2nd Randall Counties) J. R. Banes, M.D., Director W. V. Bradshaw, M.D., Director P.O. Box 1971 , Cass County Heatti/Departmen t Fort Worth Department of Public Health 417 Austin Street Corner of South Kaufman and Elush 1800 University Drive AfrIali110, Texas 79105 Linden, TeX:3s 75563 Fort Worth, Texas 76107 (806) 372-4211 (214) 756-7051 (817) 336-9241 Stuart I. Draper, M.D , Director Raul Nadal, M.D., Acting Director Walter W. Kemmerer, M.D., Director Andrews City-County Health Department Chambers County Health Department Gaivesten County Health Distnct 106 West Broadway Street P.O. Box 670 Galveston City Office Andrews, Texas 79714 Anahuac, Texas 77514 p.oBo* 779 (915) 523-3431 (713) 267-6679 823 Rosenberg Galveston, Texas 77.550 Alfred Hamilton, M.D., Acting Director Harbert Davenport. Jr:, M.D., Acting Director (713) 763-1281 Angelina County and Cities Health District Cherokee County Health Department ' Galveston CountOlfalnland Cities Office 915 Ellis Avenue 203 East Sixth Sfreet P.O. Box 939 Lufkin, Texas 75901 Room 201,Couihouse 1207 Oak Street (713) 632-1372 Rusk, Texas 75785 (214)683-4688 La Marque, Texas 77568 Gerald G. Phillips, M.D., Acting Director (713) 938-7221 Atascosa County Health Department W. R. Metzger, M.D., Director Corpus Christialueces County Health C. C. Sheldon, M.D., Acting Director P.O. Box 426 Greenville-Hunt County Health Department Agricultural Building Department P.O. Drawer 9727 2500 Lee Street, Room 412 Jourdanton, Texas 78026 Greenville, Texas 75401 (512)769-3451 1301 Leopard Corpus Christi, Texas 78408 (214) 455-1761 44''N John V. Sessums, Jr.. M.D., Director (512) 883-2931 H. A. HoOks, M.D., Acting Director Auitin-Travis County Health Department Will Miller, M.D., Acting Director Hardin County Health Department 1413 Sabinii Street Hardin CountyCourthouse Austin. Texas78701 COrsjcana-Navarro County Health Kountze, Texas 77625 - (512) 474-6581 Department P.O. Box 518 (713) 246-3362' Joe Stoeltje, M.D., Director 22 West Sixth Avenue Francine Jensen, M.D., Director Beaumont City Health Department Corsicana, Texas 75111 Harris County Health Department P.O. Boil 3827 (214) 874-6731 P.O. Box 25249 Rice Station 950 Washington Boulevard Pattie M. Dodson, M.D.. Acting Director 2370 Rice Boulevard Beaumont, Texas 77704 Houston, Texas 77005 (713) 838-0680 Cuero-DeWitt County Health Department 106 North Gonzales Sturet (713) 526 -1841 Cuero, Texas 77954 (512) 275-3481

128 129 Elinor E Marsh, M.D. Acting Director E. Douglas Perrin, MD_ Acting DireCtor Texas Health District HidalgoV,ounty Health Department Mi lam County Health Department 2c!Stevltsteniarrbriez. Jr., M.D., Acting Director 1425 South Ninth Street 209 South Houston Street Val Verde County Office Edinburg, Texas 78539 . Cameron, Texas 76520 200 Bridge Street (512) 383-6221 (817) 637-3411 Del Rio, Texas 78840 (512) 775-5965 Albert G. Randall, M.D., Director Travis L Blackwell, M.D., Direct& Dorothy M. Brown,M.D Acting Director Houston City Health Department Montgomery County Health District 1115 North MacGregor Dimmit County Office 313 East Avenue G 304 Houston Street Houston, Texas 77025 Conroe, Texas 77301 Car' (713) 222-4311 Springs, Texas 78834 (71) 756-0571, Ext.283 (512) 876-2110 RhetaJ. Goatcher, M.D.sActint) Director Howard C. Williarn&M.D, Acting Director; Robert A Stauber, M.D., Acting Director Hudspeth County Health Department Orange r..ounb/ Health Departmeht Zavala County Office Courthouse Box 301 Second and Cypress 600 John F. Kennedy Sierra Blanca, Texas 79851 Orange, Texas 77630 Crystal City, Texas 78839 (91%369-2651 (713) 883-7740 (512) 374-3010 B. Oliver Lewis, M.D Acting Director Pattie M Dodson, M D,Ac ting Director Joe F. Hillhouse. M.D., Acting Director Mavenck County and Kinney County Office Jackson County Health Department Paris-Lamar County Health Department Drawer K 411 North Wells P.O. Box 157 Eagle Pass, Texas 78852 Edna, Texas 77957 ' 740 Sixth Street, S.W. (512) 773-9438 (512) 782-5221 Paris, Texas 75460 (214) 785-4561 Ardis Gaither, Chief Sanitarian John J. McGrath, M.D.. Actufg Director Sweetwater-Nolan County Health Department Jasper-Newton County Health Department Gerald W. Wagner, M.D.. Adting Director P.O. Box 458 101 Courthouse Annex Plainview-Hale County Health,District Twelfth and Elm Streets North Austin Street P.O. Box 1738 Sweetwater, Texas 79556 Jasper, Texas 75951 Tenth and Ash (915)235-5463 (713)384-4311 Plainview. Texas 79072 (806) 293 -1359 .W. V. Bradshaw:M.D.. Director Charles W. DeBaun: M.D.. Actiqg Director Tarrant County Health Department Laredo -Webb County Health Department Brooks Taylor, M.D.. Director 1800 Univers103rive Sox 591 Port Arthur City Health Department Fort Worth, Texas 76107 2600 Cedar Street P.O. Box A (817) 336-9241 Laredo. Texas 7040 648 Fifth Street (512) 723-2051, Port Arthur, Texas'77641 J. R. Bailes, M.D., Director (713)463-3331 Texarkana-Bowie County Family Health EIrrio W. Muecke, M.D.. Acting Director Center Live Oak County Health Depthment W. D. Anderson, M.D., Acting DirectOr P.O. Box 749 Drawer 670 - Courthouse' San Angelo-Tom Green County Health 902 West Twelfth Street George West, Texas 76322 Department Texarkana, Texas 75502 (512) 449-4581 P.O. Box 1751, City Hall (214) 79g-8211 San Angelo, Texas 76902 David M. Cowgill, M.D., Aching Director (915) 655-9121 Marietta Crowder, M.D., Actirig Director Lubbock City-County Health Department 7 Tyler-Smith County Health Department P.O. Box 2549 W. R. Ross, M.D., Director P.O. Box 2039 1100 North Avenue Q San Antonio Metropolitan Health District 416 i/2 North Bois d'Arc Lubbock, Texas.79408 131 West Nueva Street Tyler, Texas 75701 (808) 762.6411 San Antonio, Texas 78285" (214)597-6651 (512) 225-5661 / R. R. Lang, M.D., Director J. L Fen law, M.D., Acting Director Marshall-Harrison County Health District Mon Tallant, M.D., Acting Director Upshur County Health Department P 0. Box 176, Old Courthouse San Marcos-Hays County Health Department Box 639, Courthouse Marshall, TexaS 75670 303 West San Antonio Street Gilmer, Taw 75644 (214)-4)38-8338 San Marcos, Texas 78666 (214) 843-2711 (512) 392-5831 Pattie M. Dodson, M.D., Acting Director J. V. Stewart, M.b., Acting Director Matagorda County Health Department A. F. Tasch, M.D., Acting Director Uvalde County-City Health Department 103 County Courthouse San Patricio County Health Department 119 South Street Bay City, Texas 77414 Box 876, Sodvi Ile Avenue Uvalde, Texas 78801 (713) 245-8421 Sinton, Texas 78387 (512) 278-2922 (512) 364-3306 Mack M. Hill, M.D., Acting Dilector Pattie MiDodson, MD.,Acting Director McKinney - Collin County Health Department Robert B. Pierce, M .D., Acting Director Victoria County Health Department New Municipal Building Scurrytountk Health Department P.O. Bo,x 2350 McKinney, Texas 75069 911 Twenty-Sixth Street. 107 Vilest River Street (214) 542-5211 Snyder, Texas 79549 Victoria, Texas 77903 - (512) 578-6281 W. S. Duty, M.D Acting Director (915) 5Z3-3508 Medina County Health Department Douglas B. Black, M.D., Acting Director Edgar M. Cleaver, M.D., Director .1502 Avenue K South Plains Health Department , Waco-McLennan County Health Department Hondo, Texas 78861 (Div)son, Gaines, Hockley, Yoakum, 225 West Waco Drive (512) 426-2534 Terry Counties) Waco, Texas 76707 (817) 756-6161 Stuart I. Draper, M.D., Director East Marn and D Streeti Brownfield, Texa- 79316 Midland-Ector-Howard County Health Charles M. Parker, M.D., -Director - (808) 637-2496 Department Wichita Falls-Wichita County Health P.O. Box 4905 Department 2200 WeiSt Illinois 1700 Third Street Midland, Texas 79704 Wichita Fal Is, Texas 7(1.3Q1 (915) 683.4281 (817) 322-5611 130

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- Donald S. Myers, MD., Director Hays County Outreach Center Nolan County FAH Clinic Williamson County Health Department ' (Serves Hays and Caldwell Counties} 102 West Third Street P.O. Box 570 Scheib Opportunity Center P.O. Box 1207 100 West Third .717 GeoigiaStreet Sweetwater, Texas 79558 Georgetoi.vn,lexas 78626 San Marcos, Texas 78668 rt (915) 235-3232 (512)863-6566 (512) 392-7104 = Reeves County MH Clinic Nixon, M.D., Acting Director Johnson County Outreach Center Second and Cypress Wion County Health Department 134 Ridgeway P.O. Box 1292 P.O. Box 276, Courthouse - Cleburne, Texas 76031 Pecos, Texas 79772 FloresvIlle, Texas78114 (817) 641 -7611 (915) 445 -2651 (512) ,93-6106 Lampasas County OLtreh Center Scurry County MH Ben F. Merritt, M.D., Acting Director County Courthouse 911 Twenty-Sixth Street Wood County Health Department P.O. Bo* 389 Snyder. Texas 79549 CourthouselRoom 104 Lampasas, Texas 76550 (915) 573-7412 Quitman, X as 75783 (512) 556-6962 (214) 763914 1 Terry Cdarty MH Clinic -Limestone County Outreach Center 101 South D 108 South Commerce Street Brownfield, Texas 79316 Groesbeck. Texas76642 (806) 637-3208 (817) 729-5704 Texas Department of Mental . Ward County MH Clinic MilamCounty Outreach Center (Serves Ward, Winkler, Crane, Kermit Health and Mental Retardation A ; 209 South Houston Street and Pecos Counties) P.O. Box 550 1900 Sbuth Stockton State Hospitals and Outreach Cameron, Texas 76520 Star Route 1, BOR. 15 Centers (817) 697-6841 Mon aliens, Texas 79756 (915)943-2875 The Texas Department of Mental Williamsbn County Outreach Center 115 West Sixth Street Kerrville State Hospital Health and Mental Retardation' Taylor, Texas 76574 Luther W. Ross, M.D., Superintendent administers the State's eight hospitals (512) 352-5942 Box 1468 for the mentally ill. The hospitals offer Kerryille, Texis 78028 Big Spring State Hospital (512)896-2211 24-hour treatment and rehabilitation for Preston E. Harrison,.M.D., Superintendent the mentally Ill as well as outreach Highway 87 Fredericksburg Oritfeach Center , clinics In nearby cOrnmuniffes for Box 231 (Serves Gillespie, Mason andiLlano Counties) discharged patients. OutreaCh centers Big Spring, Texas 79720 Gillespie County Courthouse (915) 267-8216 P.O.13px 877 are listed alphabetically following the Fredericksburg, Texas 786?4 hospital with which they are associated. Alcoholism Treatment Follbwup Project (512) 997-5900 Big Spring State Hospital Highway 87 Hill Country Outreach Center , P.O. Box 231 425 Water Street Austin State Hdspital Big Spring: Texas 79720 P.O. Box x468 Luis H. Laosa, M.D., Superintendent (915) 267-8216 Kerrville, Texas 78028 4110 Guadalupe (512) 896-2211, Ext. 265 Austin Texas 78751 Andrews County MH Clinic (512) 452-0381 106 Southwest First Street . Junction Outreach Center Andrewsr-Texas 79714 (Serves Kimble, Edwards, Menard, Sutton Austin-Wailer County Outreadh Center (915) 523-2721 and Schleicher Counties) 1313 Austin Street Kimble County Courthouse Big Spring State Hospital P.O. Box 927 P.O. Box 518 Outreach Service Hempstead, Texas 77445 Junction, Texas 76849 . 87 (713) 826-2382 (512)4484233 P.. Box 231 . Bastrop County Outreach Center Bi Spring, Texas 79720 Kerrville 3- County Outreach Center (Serves Lee and Fayette Counties) (915) 267-8216, Ext. 241 (Serves Kerr, Benders and Real Counties) v. 800 Walnut Street P.O. Box 1468 Dawson County MH Clinic Courthouse Annex Kerrville, Texas 78028 211 North Main Street Bastrbp, Texas 78602 (512) 896-2211, Ext 213 .(512) 3214963, Lamesa, Texas 79331 (806) 872-5987 Rusk State Hospital Bumet County Mental Health Center Robert B. Sheldon, MD, Superintendent Gaines County MH Clinic 105 West Jackson Highway 69 (Serves Yoakum County) Bumet, Texas 78611 Box 318 1206 &venue F (512) 7566343 Rusk, Texas.75785 P.O. Box 607 (214)683-5481 Falls County Outreach. Program Seagraves, Texas 79359 County Courthouse (806) 5464183 Anderson County Outreach Clinic P.O. Box 458 (Serves Anderson, Freestone and Leon Garza Cdunty 1;4H Clinic Marlin, Texas 76661 Counties and part of Houston County) 115 North Avenue N (817)697.68841 s 906 East Market Street P.O. Box 927 Palestine, Texas 75801 Fort Bend County Outreach Center Post, Texas 79356 (214) 729-1702 Richmond Professional Building. (806)495.2029 1601 Main Street Mitchell Couhty MH Clinic P.O. Box 109 . Richmond, Texas 77469' 136 EamiThird Street (713) 232-7674 Colorado City, Texas 79512 (915) 728-3953

130 131 Ch'erokee County Outreach Clinic Maverick County.MH Clinic Outreach Service Center (Serves Cherokee, Rusk and part of Houston Fort Dungan Park (Serves Cottle, Dickens and King Counties) County) Old Hospital BC tiding 705 Eighth Street Highway 69 P.O. Box 1559 P.O. Box 818, P.O. Box 318 Eagle Pass, Texas 78852 Paducah, Texas 9248 Rusk, Texas 75785 (512) 773-5696 (806) 492461.2 (214) 683-2633 San Patricio County MH Clinic Outreach Service Center Kountze Outreach Clinic, Sodville Road (Serves Foard and Hardeman Counties) (Serves Hardin, Liberty, Jasper and Newton Old Labor Camp 510 King Street -Counties and part of Polk County) P.O. Box 876 P.O. Box ' P.O. Bar% - Sinton, Texas 78367 Ouanah. Texas 79252 bounty Courthouse (512) 3644308 (817) 663-4366 Kountze, Texas 77625 (713) 246-3090 Wharton County MH Clinic Tri-County MHMR Clinic 114 East Burleson (Serves Haskell, Stonewall and Knox Montgomery County Outreach Clinic Wharton, Texa. 77488 Counties) County Courthouse (713) 532-5860 1301 North First Street P.O. Box 1573 P.O. Box 746 Terrell State Hospital Conroe, Texas 77301 Haskell, Texas 79521 Luis M. Cowley, M.D., Superintendent (713) 756-1072 (817) 864-3472 East Brim Nacogdoches Outreach Clinic. Box 70 Wilharger County Outreach Service Center County Courthouse Terrell, Texas 75160 County Courthouse South and Main Streets, Box 905 (214) 563-6452 Vernon, Texas 76384 Nacogdoches, texas 75961 (817) 553-4002 (713) 564-4870 Dallas Adolescent Clinic (Serves Dallas County) Young County Outreach Service Center Shelby County Outreach Clinic 3225 Lemcnon Avenue 806 Cherry Street (Serves Shelby, Petiole, San AugustiQQe and Dallas, Texas 75204 P.O. Box 956 Sabine Counties) (214) 521-1560 or 521-1561 Graham. Texas 76046 401 Elm Street . (817) 549-4344 Old Warren Hospital Building Greenville Outreach Clinic Center,jexas 75935 (Serves Hopkins, Hunt and Wood Counties) Wichita Falls State Hospital (713) 596-7306 4200 Stuart Mark Huff, Sr., M.D., Superintendent P.O. Box 1297 State Highway 79 Walker County Outreach Clinic Greenville, Texas 75401 Box 300 (Serves Walker, San Jacinto and Madison (214) 455-3987 Wichita Falls, Texas 76307 Counties and part of Houstob County) (817) 692-1220 1312 Eleventh Street Mount Pleasant-Titus County Outreach Clinic P.O. Box 464 (Serves Franklin, Morris, Camp, Cass and Collin County Outreach Center Huntsville, Texas 77340 Upshur Counties) 218 East Virginia Street (713) 295-0072 206 South Van Buren P.O. Box 474 Mount Pleasant, Texas 75455 McKinney, Texas 76069 San Antonio State Hospital (214) 572-2227 (214) 542-0394 R. M. Inglis, M.D.; Superintendent 5900 South 'Prase Navarro County Consultation Center Cooke County Outreach Center Box 23310, Highland Hills Station 216 North Main Suite 218 San Antonio, Texas 78223 P.O. Box 1735 Schad and Pulte Building (512) 532-6811 Corsicana, Texas 75110 P.O. Box 180 et (214) 872-2491 Gainesville, Texas 1'6240 Bee County MH Clinic .(817) 6664962 405 Hillside Drive . Paris Outreach Clinic Beeville, Texas 78102 (Serves Lamar, Delta, Red River and Fannin Montague County Outreach Center (512) 358-8000. Counties) City Hall Basement 625.West Wishington P.O. Box 1492 Comal County MHMR Center Paris, Texas 75460 Bowie, Texas 76230 159 West Austin (214) 785-6441 (817) 872-5361 NewBraunfels.Texas 78130 (512) 625-7724 Vernon Center Palo Pinto County Outreach Center Frankie E. Williams, M.D., Superinten dent (Also serves Erath, Jack and Parker Counties) Del Ri&MH Clinic North Unit, between Highways 70 and 287 -Old Fort Wolters, Building 244 (Also serves Val Verde County) South Unit, Highway 187 West P.O..Box 1207 200 Bridge Street Box 2231 Mineral Wells, Texas 76067 P.O. Box 986' Vernon, Texas 76384 (817) 325-1959 Del Rio, Texas 78840 (817) 552-9901 (512) 775-8814 Stephens-Shackelford County Outreach ServiceCenter Outreach Center Gonzales County MHMR Center (Serves Baylor and Throckmorton Counties) 203 South Geneva 509 1/2 Saint Joseph 300 South Stratton P.O.Box 1591 Gonzales, Texas 78629 P.O. Brix 1077 Breckenridge, Texas 76024 (512) 672-6164 Seymour, Texas 76380 (817) 559-2491 (817) 888-2277 Guadalupe County MHMR Clinic Wise County Outreach Center 1104 Jefferson Outreach Service Center 604 North Trinity Seguin, TexeS 78155 (Serves Childress and Hall Counties) P.O. Box 397 (512)379-8223 421 Main Street Decatur, Texas 76234 P.0, Box 926 (817) 627-3348 Matagorda County MH Clinic Childress, Texas 79201 1100 Avenge G (817) 937-3644 Bay City, Texas 77414 (713) 132 m Comet County'MHMR Center Aransas Pass Adult Activity Centpr Texas Department of Mental 158 Mot Austin Street ceMay Men School Health and Mental Retardation New Braunfels, Texas 78130 Goodnight School Aransas Pass, Texas 70336 'Community-Based Residential Service s' State Schools and Outreach $310 Joe Sayers Aransas Pass Training Center Centers for the Mentally Austin, Texas 78756 962 South Houston Aransas Pass, Texas 78336 Retardiad Community Skills Training Center 3402 Exposition Beeville Adult ActiVity Center The Texas Department of Mental Austin, Texas 78703 300 East Doc- Health and Mental Retardation Beeville, Texas 78102 administers twelve slate schools for the Discharge Planning and Follow Along :7. Services Cotulla Training Center mentally retarded. The schools offer Box 1269 Box 537 residential care, treatment and Austin, Texas 78767 Cotulla, Texas78014, education for mentally retarded persons Guadalupe County MHMR Center Cuero Training Center of all ages. Each school operates 1104 Jefferson Street 720 Hamilton Street. outreach programs in its immediate Seguin, Texas 78155. Cuero, Texas 77954 surrounding area. Outreach programs Hill CountryLenter for Development of Edna Training Center are listed alphabetically folloviing the Human Potential 506 North Allen Street state schootwith which they are 967 Jefferson Street Edna, Texas 77957 c associated. Kerrville, Texas 78028 Encinal Training Center Pre-Admission/Admission Services Abilene State School Encinal Elementary School L W. Cain, Superihtendent Box 1269 - Encinal, Texas 78019 Austin, Texas 78767 P.O. Bo*451 Kames County Adult Activity Center South Twenty-Fourth and Lakeside Scheib Opportunity Center 319 North Market Street Abilene, Texas79604. 717 Georgia Street Kames City, Texas 78118 San Marcos, Texas 78666 Graham Work Activity Center PearsallTraining Center 156EIm Brenham State School 522 East Florida Street Graham, Texas76046.. Jimmy Haskins, Ed.D., Superintendent Pearsall, Texas 78061 Haskell County Outreach ,Box 161 Highway 36, three miles south Pleasanton Training Center P.O.-Box 74S 1. Brenham, Texas 77833 clo Church of Christ Haskell, Texas 79523 1003 North Main Street Haskell Couniraining Center Bellville Community Opportunity Center Pleasanton, Texas 78064' Box 687 310 North First VictOria Adult Activitytenter ti Bellville, Texas 77418 Haskell, Texas 79521 Sox 2238 Little Flame School Brenham Opportunity Center 3106 East Lone Tree Road 1003 Sunnyside Drive Victoria, Texas 77901 910 Lingleville Road . Brenham, Texas 77833 Stephenville, Texas 76401 Benton State School Opportunity School Brookshire School for Handicapped ChildrenEdwin W. Killian; Superintendent 212 North Mulberry Box 591 Box 368 Kermit, Texas 79745 Brookshire, Texas 77423 Mayhill Read, off Highway 35E Denton, Texas 76202 Stamford Area Outreach Program Community MR Center 602 East McHarg Street 2001 Cavitt Collin County Developmdntal Center Stamford, Texas 79553 Bryan, Texas 77801 400 South Louisiana Street McKinney, Texas 75069 Stephenville Work Activity Center Human Development Center 910 Lingleville Road 107 Timber Community Return Program' College Station, Texis 77840 Stephenville, Texas 76401 -Denton State School Box 368 ' Stonewall County Outreach Milam Association for Retarded Citizens Denton, Texe.s 76202 2618 Grace Route 1, Box 82-B Aspermont, Texas 79502 Rockdale, Texas 76567 Dento'n County Community Day Care Oenter First Christian Church Montgomery County Children's Center Sunshine Inn 1203 North Fulton 709 Pease 119 Sopth Frazier Denton, Texas 76201 Sweetwater, Texas 74556 Conroe, Texas 77301 Genetic Screening and-Counseling Service Woodland School Corpus Christi State School Denton State School t Gary V. Sluyter, Ph.D., Superintendent Northside Church of Christ Box 368 . Snyder Highway Box 9297 ,Denton, Texas 76202 902 Airport Road Colorado City, Texas 79512 Corpus Christi, Texas fe408 Hopkins County Opportunity Center Young County Outreach 602 Church Street 806 Cherry Alice Adult Activity Center Sulphur Springs, Texas 75482 828 West Front P.O. Box 956 . Graham, Texas 76048 Alice, Texas 78332 1-tuntDounty Opportunity Center 4200 Stuart Street Austin State School Alice Training Center Greenville, Texas 75401 First Methodist Church B. R. Walker, Ph.D.. Superintendent t Box 1269 First and Adams Streets Lamar County MR Center Alice, Texas 78332 2203 West Thirty-Fifth Street Thompson Hall - Austin, Texas 78767 2610 Gay Drive Paris, Texas 75460 .

132 133 Traveling Diagnostic Team Paducah Satellite class Ellis County Activity Center Outreach Team Veteran's Building 23161/2 North Preston Lowry Hall Paducah, Texas 79248 Ennis, Texas 75119 Texas Woman's University 9enton, Texas 76202 J , PostSatellite Class Ennis Outreach Center NeighborhoodCenter Gilmer Street Church of Christ Fort Worth State School Post, Texas 79356 West GilmerStreet W. Vearl McDaniel, Ph.D., Superintendent Ennis, Texas 75119 Box 16307 -Quanah Satellite C PEPDF Grant Falls County Work Activity Center . Campus Drive and Loop 820 'Fort Worth, Texas 76133 Quanati, Texas 79252 Box 129 Marlin, Texas 76661 Crestwood After School Project Quanah Satellite Class. 3600 White Settlement Road Satellite Outreach Service Center Hill County Development Center Fort Worth, Texas 76107 Quanah, Texas 79252 First Presbyterian Church -1056 Park Drive Dallas County Group Home No. 1 Seymour Satellite Class Hillsboro, Texas 76645 4513 Gaston Avenue. Seymour Outreach Service Center Dallas, Texas 75246 300 South Stratton Hill County Work Activity Seymour; Texas 76380 203 Francis Street Manor Estates Skilled Nursing Care-Center Hillsboro, Texas 76645 5700 Midway Road Snyder Satellite Class Fort Worth, Texas 7611 3112 Avenue C Johnson County Work Activity Center Snyder, Texas 79549 1217 Hemphill MeadowbrogeNursing Center Clebume, Texas 76031 3301 View Sheet Lufkin State School. Fort Worth, Texas 76103 William W. Beaver, Superintendent Navarro County Development Center Drawer 1648 447 North Twenty-Sixth Street Meadowb rook Respite/Crisis Center Highway 69, Nine miles northwest Corsicana, Texas 75110 3301 View Street Lufkin, Texas 75901 Fort Worth, Texas 76103 Robertson County Work Activity Center Center Outreach Agriculture Buifdirig Mobile Training Unit Box 208 Alamo and Third Streets 5286A Trail Lake Drive Center, Texas 75935 Hearne, Texas 77859 Fort Worth, Texas 76133 Chireno Outreach Teague Outreach Classroom MR Family Advocacy Unit 4. Box 85 First Presbyterian Church 5286A Trail Lake Drive Chireno, Texas 75937 Cedar and Seventh Street Fort-Worth, Texas 76133 Teague, Texas 75860 Corrigan Outreach MR Family Counseling Unit Box 35F Richmond State School 2710 Stemmons Freeway Corrigan, Texas 759. 39 H. Russell White, Superintendent Stemmons Toiver North 2100 Preston Street . Dallas; Texas 75207 Crockett Outreach Richmond, Texas 77469 Box 481 Program Planning and Disposition Unit Crockett, Texas 75835 Alvin Outreach Center, 5286A Trail Lake Drive 913 East Old Galveston Road Fort Worth, Texas76133 Kennard Outreach Alvin, Texas 77511 Kennard Schools Tarrant County Developmental Center Kennard; Texas 75847 Bay City Outreach Center 2710 Avenue J - Edith Armstrong Center Fort Worth, Texas 76105 Lufkin Outreach 720 Austin clo Robert Cummings Bay City, Texas 77414 Volunteers of America 1015 Moore Avenue Extended Living Center Lufkin, Texas 75901 El Campo Outreach Center 2710 Avenue J , El Campo Opportunity Center Fort Worth, Texas 76105 San Augustine Outreach Sandy,Comer Road San Augustine Independent School District El Campo, Texas 77437 Volunteers of America High School Drive. Respite/Crieis Center San Augustine, Texas 75972 Wharton Outreach Center 2710 Avenue J WhartonCommunity Center Fort Worth, Texas 76105 Shelbyville Outreach 510 West Caney Bo X,325 Wharton, Texas 77488 Lubbock State School- S,hel6yville, Texas 75973 John W. Gladden, Ph.D., Superintendent San Angelo Center Bot5.396 Tenaha Outreach J. W. Irwin, Superintendent - Loop 289 and South University Box 308 Carlsbad, Texas 76934 - Cubbock, texas 79417 Tanabe, Texas 75974' Day Care Program. Andrews Satellite Class Timpson Outreach San Angelo Center 606 Northeast Fifth Drawer 37Q . Carlsbad, Texas 76934 Andrews, TexcCs 79714 Timpson, Texas 75975 Training Workshop Littlefield Satellite Class . Mexia State School 315 1/2 North Chadbourne Cbrner of Greenfield and Eistside Avenue Malcolm Lauderdale, Superintendent San Angelo, Texas 76934 Littlefield, Texas 79339 Box 1132 Highway 171, Five miles northwest Travis State SchoOl L,ockney Satellite Class Mexia, Texas 76667 Victor Hinojosa, M.D., Superfrifendent First United Methciditt Church Box 130 Popular and Main C. 0. Cook Development Center WebBerville Road "Lock ney, TeXas 79241 803 Rose Street Austin, Texas 78767 . Clebuirie, Texas 76031 - 134. Bastrop Vocational Workshop Amarillo MHMR Regional Center 106 North First Street West Highway 71 Region° One Lufkin,Texas 75901 Bastrop, Texas 78602 Clark E.Wooldridge,AdmiAistrator (7.13) 634-2241 P.O. Box 3250 (Angelina, Hardin, Houston, Jasper, Bymet MR-Work Activity Center 7201 Evans Street Nacogdoches, Newton, Polk, Sabine, San County Courthouse Amarillo, Texas 76106 Aug Latin e", San Jabinto, Shelby, Tri, illy Bumet, Texas 78611 (806) 353-7235 and Tyler Counties) Or (Armstrong, Carson, Collinsworth, Dallam, MHMR Regional Center of Eat Texas 305 North Pierce Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Burnet, Texas 78611 Gary IC Smith,Executive Director Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchison, Lipscomb, Tenth Flood Bryant Badirig".- Community Services Division Moore. Ochiltree, Oldham, Potter, Randall, 305 South 3atitaway Box 430 Roberts, Sherman and Wheeler Counties) Tyler, Texas 75701 Webberville Road Austin-Travis County MHMR Center- (214)597-1351 - Austin, Texas 78767 Region Seven (Henderson, Rains, Smith, Van Zandt and Wood Counties) Fayette County MHMR Activity Center John Weimer, Administrative Director County Courthouse 143C/ Collier El Pato Center for MHMR Services LaGrange, Texas 78945 Austin, Texas 78704 Region Three -(512) 447-4141 . Miss Della Haddad, Executive Director Gonzales Workshop Ifiravis County), .' 4821 Alameda 5091/2 Saint Joseph El Pato, Texas 79905 Gonzales, Texas 78629 Bexar County MHMR center Region Four (915) 532-6961 Or (El Pak County) 219 Saint Lawrence Aaron Liberman, Executive Director Gonzales, Texas 78629 611 North Floret' MHMR Center for Greater West Texas San Antonio, Texas 78205 James M. Young, Executive Director Lavaca County MR-Work Activity Cepter (512) 225-4011 244 North Magdalen 101 Crockett Street (Bexar County) -San Angelo, Texas 76901. Hallettsville, Texas 77964 Brazos Valley MHMR Center (915)655-5674 Lee County Outreach Program Norman L Beal, Executive Director (Tom Green County) County Courthouse P.O. Box 1256 Gregg:Harrison MHMR CenteG Giddings, Texas 78942 405 West Twenty-Eighth Street Region Thirteen: Or Bryan, Texas 77801 Mrs. A. M. Willis:Eiciputive Director 115 West Sixth Street (713) 822-7326 P.O. Box 1224 Taylor, Texas 76574 (Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Leon, Madison, Memorial Hospital Annex, Highway 80 West Robertson and Washipgton Counties) Schulenburg Workshop Marshall, Texas 75670 517 North Street Central Counties Center for MHMR Services (214) 938-7721 Schulenburg, Texas 78956 Steven B. Schnee; Ph.D., Executive Director Executive Office Box 1025 (214) 758-017f Williamson County Homebound Education 302 South Twenty - Second Street Longview Office Services Temple, Texas 76501 (Gregg and Harrison Counties) Taylor, Texas 76574 (817) 778-4842 Gulf Bend MHMR Center or (Bell, Coryell, Erath, Hamilton, Lampasas ald Georgetown, Texas 78626 Region Six Milam Counties) Tom G. Kelliher, Jr.' Central Plains Comprehensive Community Executive Director MHMR Center , P.O. Box2238 Region One 2105 Port Lavaca Drive Texas Department of Mental Dillard, Executive Director Victoria, Texas 77901 .P.O. Box 578 (512) 5786262 Health and Mental Retardations2601 Dimmitt Road (Calhoun, De Witt, Golfed, Jackson, Lavaca, Plainview, Texat 79072 Refugio and Victoria Counties) Conlinunity Centers (806) 296-2726 4 Gulf Coast Regional MHMR Center Texas hastwenty-seven community (Bailey, Briscoe, Castro, Hale, Floyd, Lamb, Region Sixteen Motley, Parmer and Swisher Counties) centers, each administered by a local John Billings, Executive Director P.O. Box 2490 board of trustees, to serve the mentally MHMR Cepter for Central Texas , 507 Tremont retarded and the'mentelly ill at theocal Region Nine Roy A. Cronenberg; Executive Director Galveston, Texas 77550 level. The centers provide services (713) 763-2373 Box * ,based on particular needs of the 308 Lakeway (Brazoria, Galveston and Matagorda community, including diagnosis, Brownwood, Texas 76801 Counties) evaluation, sweat education for (915)646-9576 MHMR Authority of Harris County (Browri,'Colemart, Comanche,-Eastiand, Region Sixteen ,preschoottiadren, family, counseling, McCulloch, Mills and San Saba Counties) drug abuse treatment and alcoholism Eugene Williams, Acting Executive Director P.O. Box 25381 services. The counties listed arp those Dallas County MHMR Center Region Eleven 2501 Dunstan served by the center. Jon Hannum, Ph.D., Acting Executive Director Houtton, Texas 77005 1200 Stemriurs Tower North (713) 526-2871 (Harris County) Abilene Regional MHMR Center 2710 StemMons Freeway ,Region Nine Dallas, Teites 75207. Heart of Texas Region MHMR Center Russ Evans, Administrative Director (214) 6303100 Dean Maberry, Executive Director P.O. Box 3253 (Dallae.County). P.O. Box 1277 733 South Leggett Deep tast Texas Regional MHMR Services 1401 North Eighteenth Street Abilene, Texas 79604 Wayne Lawrence, Ph.D., Executive Oirectoi. Waco, Texas 76703 (915)698-3016 301AngelineBuildIng (817) 752-3451 (Callahan, Jones and Taylor Cdunties) 135 Lubbock Regional MHMR Center Texas Department of Mental Alice MH Center Region Flys Health and Mental Retardation , Mental Health Outreach Center Clayton Mallett, Executive Director Jim Wells County Courthouse 1210 Texas Avenue State Centers for - Alice, Texas 78332 bubbock, Texas 79401 (512) 664-9687 (806) 763-4213 .Human Development (Cochran, Crosby. Dickens, Garza, Hockley. Brownsville MH Clinic King, Lubbock. Lynn and Yoakum Three State Centers for Human Mental Health Outreach Center Co'unties) ' development provide the mentally MarketSquare P.O. Box 791 Northeast Texas MHMR Board of Trusteee retarded in their communities with such Brownsville, Texar78520 Region Twelve services as diagnosis and evaluation, (512) 542-9151 Miss Lucille Jblley, Executive Director parent counseling, day care, preschool Cameron-Viillady MH Center 1215 Olive Street and prevocational training, sheltered Texarkana, Texas 75501 Mental Health Outreach Center (214)793 -6776 employment and respite care. Short term 2115 North Twenty-Eighth Street (bowie and Red River Counties) residential treatment services for the P.O. Box 2668 , mentally Mare provided at the Hailing en, Texas 78550 es County MHMR Community Center (512) 423-5077 Region Six Beaumont and El Paso Centers. Each Ron Whittington. Ph.D., Executive Director Center has its own outreach centers. FalfurriaiMH Center 1630 South Brownlee Information about.entry into a state Mental Health Outreach Canter Corpuh Christi, Texas 78404 school can be obtained from a human Magnolia Heights P.O. Box 460 (512) 888-5321 development center. (Nueces County) Falfurrias, Texas 78355 . (512) 325-3715 or 325-2391 Permian Basin Community Centers for Freer MH Center MH and MR Amarillo State Center for Human Mental Health Outreach Center RegionTwo Development Pearson Street Robert Dickson, Executive Director Harry G. Heyman, Director P.O. Box 862 3701 North Big Spring 901 Wallace BoulEivard freer, Texas 78357 Midland, Texas 79701 Box 3070 (512) 394-4831 (915) 563-0271 Amarillo, Texas 79106 (Midland and Ector Counties) (806) 355-9791 Hebbronville MH Center ' Mental Health Outreach Center Southeast Texas Regional MHMR Center Beaumont State Center for Human 104 North Wilhelma Regions Fifteen and Sixteen Development Hebbronville, Texas 78361 Roger Prlcer, Ph.D.7Executive Director Burtis Hollis, Director (512) 427-4048 590 Center 655 South Eighth Street Beaumont, Texas 77701 P.O. Box 3846 Kingsville MH Center (713) 838:0541 Beauniont, Texas77704 (Chambers, Jefferson and Orange Counties) Mental Health Outreach Center (713) 833-1485 Kle berg County Courthouse Kingsville; Texas 78363 Texoma Regional MHMR Center El Paso State Center for Human Development James E. Snowden, Executive Director (512) 592-4386 Raul B. Valdez, Director , Building 5218 6700 Delta Drive Laredo Community MH Center Grayson County Airport - El Paso, Texas 79905 Denison, Texas 75026 Mental Health Outreach Center (915) 779-0600 Laredo 4Ir Force Base (214)786.2912 . P.O. Box 1835 (Cooke, Fannin. and Grayson Counties) Laredo; Texas 78040 Trinity Valley MHMR Authority (512)723-2926 Tommie Duncan, Executive'Director Texas Department of Mental P.O. Box 2603 Rio Grande City Community MH Center 1319 Summit Avenue Health and Mental Retardation Mental Health Outreach Center Fort Worth, Texas 76101 Starr County Courthouse P.O. Box 307, (817) 335-5371 Rio Grande State Center. (Tarrant County) Rio Grande City, Texas 78582 The Rio Grande State Center (512) 487 -3748. Tropical Texas Center for MHMR demonstrates a new cdficept In regional Willacy County Community MliCenter Mr. Marion Shirah, Executive Director service's for both the mentally ill and the P.O. Drawer 1106 Mental Health Outreach Center 295 East Hidalgo 1425 South Ninth Street mentally retarded. Serving the Lower Rio Edinburg, Texas 76539 Granite Valley, the center combines the Raymondville, Texas 78580 (512)689-3031 . (512) 3830121 . features of state hospitals and state .,. (Cameron, Hidalgo and Willacy Counties) schopis in providing mental health Zapata Community MH Center 11 Wichita Falls Community MHMR Center ,services, training for the mentally Mental Health Outreach Center P.O. Box 466 Region Nine retarded, diagnosis and family James R. Zug, Executive Director Zapata, Texas 78076 counseling. There are both mental (512) 7654357 1800 Rose Street . health outreach centers and mental Wichita Falls, Texas 76301 Bias Cantu, Superintendent (817) 322-1196 retardation outreach deniers attached to Rio Grande State Center for MHMR (Wichita County) this Center. Mental Retardation Services Ran-gen/111e Road Harlingen, Texas 78550 ,BlaS Cantu, Superintendent (514423-5077 Rio Grande Stifle Center for MHMR firownsville State Training Center Mental Health Services Mental Retardation Outreach Center 2115 North Twenty-Eighth Street - 1200 Lincoln Street Harlingen, Texas 78550 Brownsville, Texas 7,8520' a 01?) 2.3"59?7 (512) 546-8539' 135 .06 Harlingen Stale Chest Hospital Paul Scott. Ph.D. Citizens National-EfaLituikan.g, Roorn614 Mental Retardation Outreach Center , Texas Department of Mental Aealth and Brovmvooa, Texas 76801 Day Care Program. Mental Retardation (915)646-0591 . flarkerville Road 909 West Forty-Fifth Street Betty Annpiller. CDS " Box 592 Austin, Texas 78751 Central Nan, Spite 1010 Harlingen, Texas 78550 (512)452-0381 Jacksbon, Highway / (512)4215077, Ext. 76 (Child Care Development) Wichita Falls, Texas 76302 Rhodney Williams, DCRS Laredo Community MHMR Center Jill She*, Linda Patton, CDS , Mental Retardation Outreach Center 6042Ruthergienn Box 23E9 Lai Force Base - Heuston, Texas 2003 Fourth. Street - P.O: Set 1835 . (713) 7744833 or 77g.;3752 Carikojexas98040 (Child Advocacy Group) Lubbock, Texas 79408 (512) 723-2926 (806) 747-3321, Ext. 52 Danny Stone- SDPW Region Two. StonewayrPelte Schools Hazel Baylor, Regional Administrator 2111 Hillc Veipe_tre Smitti, DCRS Mesquite, Texas 75149 P.O. Box 10276" Stale Depahment of Public (214) 288-6356 Or 263-6033 ',5150 El Paso Drive - Welfare (Private School) . El Pato, Texas 79994 Advitory Committee on Norrnaic Stone (915) 779-7790, Ext. 200 Child Care Facilitie.S 5384 Nakbma Drive Darlene Collins, DCRS Dallas, Texas 75209 318 Noah Sell ../ The Child Care Licensing Act of 1975,,(214) 238-8179 or 352-7466 SanAngelo, Texas 76901. passeeby the 64th Texas Legislature; (Child Advocady Group) (915)55?3516

established the State Advisory Floyd Stumbo - sbpyrRegion Three Corninittec on Child Care Facilities to, The Children stiome of Lubbock James A. Covey, RegionalAdministrator's review child care rules, regulations and P.O. Box 2824 . 410 North Thirteent treat Edinburg, Texas minimum standards and to advise-the Lubbock, Texas 79408 (806) 762.0481 (512) 383.6344 ' State Department °Public Welfare (Child-Caring Institution) Gloria Homer. COS .about problems of child care facilities. . . P.O. Box 960 Beverly Sutton, M.D. Edinburg, Texas 78539- Texas Department o Mental Health and , Virginia ktylontalvo, OCRS Mental Rirkardation 2600 Cedar kirs.1-(enry Anderson. 909 West Faffy-Fifth Stfeet Laredo, Texas 78040 2206-Berkeley 4 Austin, Texas787 1 (512) 722-0571 Wichita Falls, Texas 78:356 1 (512) 45115331- (817) 767-6050 or 322-1119 SDPW Region Pour. (Day Care Center) a Madge Watson Raymond Cheves, Regional Administrator Lee and Beulah M r Children's Home Faye E. Hanford: DCRS Julia Bthow. 1100 Cliff- Anniell MilJer, DCRS 313 Randle El Piso, Texas Ann B. Butler, COS Waco, Texas 76710 (915) 44-8777 - P.O. Box 2410 (817) 772.0267, (Child - Faring Insti>iti?n) . 1700 Steves Avenue (Parent) .1 .JSanAntonio, Texas 78210 Dennis Flinn (512) 533-3161 818 Carmel Parkway ,State Departthent of Public. SDPW Region Five e..orpi.is Christi, Texas 78411 Joe Villarreal, Regional Administrator ' (512)853-4379 1 Welfare 3137 Old Spanish Trail (Child Acivobacy Group) RegionalOffides Houton, Texas 77054 Joan R. Hebefer, M.b. (713) 741-4000 1144444414,, Associate Prof assor of Pediatrics The State bepartnient of Public Suzy Gensberg, DCRS -) University of Texas Medical Branch Welfare hassrfivideEl Texasihto teri Linda Laird, DCRS Pearl Brinsmade, CDS Gatvestori.Texas.77550 regions, tech with a regional.. (713) 765-2315 Lynda Harvell, CDS (Child Care Dev administrator,and staff, Including :the. 3004-N Yale Street Regional Director of Social Services. - Houston, Texas 77018 . WileyHeel' Theregional staff is responsible for the (713) 631-6800 7258 WileMoad Houston, Texas 7Z016 'Departments financial, social, SDPW Region Six (713)633-7062 or 672-7908 protective, licensing, and other services ,June Klein, Regional Administrator (Child Advocacy.Grout* in the regicin. The day care resource. 216 Franklin Street Beaumcint, Texal 77701 'Ruth L McLemore specialist (DCRS) serves an *Oakwood (713)835-3751 Day School informeonal andregulatory function, Betty Beaty, DCRS 604 OakWood Lane determining whether dchild care facility Diana Range, CDS -.Arlington; Texas 7,8412 or family day home complies with State P.O. Box 767 (817) 277-6269 et, and federal standards. Thextilid 202-East Pillar (Day Care Centlr) Nacogdoches, .Texas 75961 development socialist (CDS) serves as ."(713) 5647931 Why tee Piaster a consultant In providing training to . 'lZvila Fautt, CDS The Edna Gladney Home" assist new facilities to sleet standards 550 Fannin 2110 Hemphill. - , Petrolum BuildingoFilth Floor Fort Worth, Texas 76110 and In Identifying cdmmunityresourcps.-,- % ,Beaumont, Texas 77701 (817) 9262-3304 - (Child-Placing Agency) SDPW Region Seven SDPY;filegion One Lloyd Sterling, Regional Administraief Rosa flarrilrez , Nathan Martin, Regional Admin r 901 Kaufman Street 3310 Flores -- SecOndFloor, Courthouse Pans, Texas 75460 F ,Laredo, Texas 75040 r. Jacksboro, Texas 76056 (214) 784-3395 - (512) 722-1097 or 723-5591 (817) 567-2411 Judy Schneider, DCRS, CDS,

Betty Simmons. DCRS 14 136 -:-.: P- '1 a . -.137 .0 13,0.Box 5928 Marion Pratt Aartie McLaln 2409 College Drive' 5116 CroVin Road ;4.25141vandell Texarkana, Texag 75501 Fort Worth, Texas 76114 bail/ TeasiaMe (2,14)794-3= Ext. 24 7. (817) 626-7324/926-22,61 (214) 1 G -W)da Miller, DCRS. CDS 2206 West Erwin "Ninfa Guerra Dr. David S. Dow Tylef, Texas 75701 309 South Thirty-rifthStreet 2605 Regency (214) 593-8303. Ext. 34 McAllen, Texas 78501 - Waco, Texas 76710 (512) 696-4245/787-6281 (817) 752-8205/7721423 SDPW Reg ion Eight Tom Cragen, Regional Administrator Karen Ouebe (one position vacant) Old Courthouse .2nd Floor - 1809 Sylvan Drive . Dallas. Texas 75202 Austin:'rexas 78741, Weldon Tabor (214)741 -7811, (512) 44r-5789 Route 2 ,LindaSbarinti,, cRS Ouanah, Texas 79252 ,Carrie Wooldridge, DCRS Juanita Bridges (817) 674-22221674-2223 6727 Holly Grove Elizabeth Merhil4CDS Elizabeth Smith Gwen Chance, CDS Houston, Texas 77017 (713) 643-5324/468-0470 Director of Homemaking Education Blanton Tower Building, Room 8131 Texas Education Agency 3100 West Mockifigbird Lane - Julia Wilipoite 201 East Eleventh Street Dallas, Texas 75235 4601 Chiapperci Trail Austin, Texas 78701 (2114)358-5121 AuStin, fexas8781 (512) 475-3818 SDPW Region Nine (512)459-6245/472-8966 Dr. Glen A. French, Dd'ector J. W. Keith. Regional Administrator LuCile Hampton, Director Elementary Education Section 711 West Seventh Street Marlin Child Development Center Texas Education Agency Fort Worth. Texas 76102 P.O. Box 809 201 East Eleventh Street (817) 336-9531 Marlin. Texas 76661 Austin, Texas 78701 Doreen GeigelX)CRS (817) 893-5531 (512)475.2608 Catherine (Pat) Memll. CDS. P.O. Box.17123 Dr. Roland Brauer Cwt 3114 South Riverside Drive 505 Beileview . Port Worth, "texas 76102 Corpui Chnsti, Texas 78412 (817) 921-3411 (512) 889-960e Texas Education Agency SDPW Region Ten Dr. Paul R. Meyer , Regional Education Service Homer Rodriguez, Regional Administrator. 3121 Proctor 'Centers, Rosie Johnson, DCRS Port Arthur, Texas 77640 Martha Loeffler, CDS .(713)962-6800/983-3331 Education Service Centers, one in 3000 South I.H. 35 each Texas Education Agency region in Fountain Park Plaza Lula-Mae Paris, R.N. the State, provide educational services Austin, Texas 78704 107 Canary Street (512) 4751 Elgin, Texas 78621 to public schools and through special Mayella Sad ler, DCRS -(512) 454-3781. Ext. 395 arrangements =other organizations and P.O. Box 9 . . Stuart Fisher persons engaged In education and .4. 3316 Franklin Avenue . Director of Planning Coordination children's services. Educational. Waco, Texas 76705 Texas Department of Mental Health/Mental services include instructional media (817) 753-4571, Ext. 234 Retardation (films; recordings, tapes, models), Box 12668 Capitol Station personnel develOptnent, pupil appraisal, Austin, Texas 78711 curriculum development and projects for Texas Education Agency (512)454-3761, Ext. 261 meeting needs of handicapped students. Advisory,Council on Early': John L Barnett' Childhood Education 2617 Rod Fort Worth, 76119 . Region I The Advisory Council on Early (817)336-8311 Dr. Charles Benson, Director Childhood Educj(on, created by the Dr. Robert Holman r Vicki Dailey, Consultant, Special Education Texas Legislature in 1973, assists the Goose Creek*Initependent Schoolistnct Region I Education Service Center 1900 West Schunlor ' -State Board of Education in formulating. P.O. Box 30 . Baytown, Texas 77520 EdinburgTexas 78539; standards-for public klndergartdn (713) 427-6565 (512) 383-5611 s. programs. Ann Oliver Region II ' 2817 Sadler Dr. Thomas Tope, Jr., Director / JXmes Harper, Director, Special Eilucation Dr. Alberta Castaneda 0 Fort Worth, Texas 76133 (817) 921-4843/926-246) Region II Education Service Center Sutton HaH 4,12 109 North Chaparral The University of Texas Betty Walker Corpus Christi, Texas 78401 testin, Texas 70712 '1621 Lakewood (512) 883-9288 (512) 471-1801/459-5398 -Sherman, Texas 75090 P -(214) 893-1811/893-6511 Region Ill Dr. Vicki Davis - Dr. Dennis Grizzle,DirectorN. Route 1 Gordon McKee, O.D. Kenneth Crow, Director, Special Edudation Campbell, Texas 75422 College of Optometrh? Region Ill Education Service Center (214) 468-2588/862-3462 University of Houston' 2710 Hospital Drive ,. - Mabel Pitts . Houston, Teas 77004 Victoria, Texas 77901 0' (713) 772-5364/749-3129 (512) 575-0403 Child DeVelopment arid Day Care Services State Department of Public Welfare Dr. Vivian Hicks John H. Reagan Building 500 North If gh . -A Austal, Texas 78701 Henderson, Texas 75652 (512) 475-6481/478-3950 (21,4)595-0711 '138 137 V / Regiic IV 6 eegion XIII T. S. Hancock. Director Joe Petits, Director Flary.PovterS,Superv6aors Special Education Ben Wallace, Coordinator, Special Eiducition .Region IV Education Service Center Stephan Jackson. Consultant, Early P.O Box 863 Childhood Education 1750 Seamist Region XIII Education-Service Center Houston, Texas 77001 6504 Tracor Lane (713) 938-1051 Austin, Texas 78721 (512)926-8030 Region V Dr. 0. E Bailey, Director Legion XIV Wanda Badgett, Coordinator, Special Dr. Thomas Lawrence.Director Education Lee Nell Gann, Consultant. Special Education Region V Education Service Center Region XIV Education Seniice Center P.O. Box 3548 P.D. Box 3258 2900 North Street 3001 North Third Beaumont, Texas 77704 6bilene, Texas 79604 (713)892-9562 915)677 -2911 Region VI Region XV Max W. Schlotter, Djrector Charles T. Bitters, Director Ben J. Willigns, Assittait Director, June Timms, Program Director. Special Services i Special Education Region VI Education Service Center Janet Moses. Coordinator, Migrant Program Box 2201. Sam Houston Station for 4-year-olds 2107 Avenuel Region XV Education_Service Center -- Huntsville, Texas 77341 P.O. Box 5199 (713) 295 -9161 100 North Magdalen 6 San Angelo, Texas 76901 Region VII (915)655-6551 Von Rhea Beane. Director' Venedia Watkins, Coordinator. Reg kinril Special Education . Dr. Kerffieth Laycock. Director Region VII Education Service Center Floyd Robertson. Associate Psychologn ,P.O. Drawer1622 Special Education Building C. Ross Avenue Region XVI Education Service Center Kilgore. Texas 75662 .4100i South Cleveland (214)984-3071 Amarillo, Texas 79102 (806) 376-5521 Region VIII Thomas Carney, Director Region XVII Joann Watson. EarlyChildhood Specialist Dr. Omer Douglas:Director. Region VIII Education Service Ceper 'David Cobb, Coordinator, Special Education 100 North Riddle Street Region XVII Education Service Center Mount Pleasant, Texas 75455 700 Texas Commerce Bank Building (214) 52-6676 Lubbock, Texas 794Q1 (806) 763-4i97 Region IX Dr. H. M. Fullerton, Dkrector "Region XVIII Art Phillips, Deputy Director, Dr. J. W: Donaldson, Director

6 Special Education Eddie Brenholtz, Assistant Director. Region IX Education Service Center Special Education * - P.O. Box 44266 - Region XVIII Education Service Center 3014 Old Seymour Road P.O. Box 6020 4 Wichita Falls, Texas 76309 . Pliska Drive, Terminal (817j22-6929 Midland, Texas 79701 ' (915) 563-2320 Region X 01. Fiayden W. Goodgioa, Director Region XIX Jim George, Director, Special Education Dr. John E Uxer, Director .* Region X Education Service Center Patricia G. Adkins, Director, Early Childhood . '" P.O. Box 1000 Education 400 East Spring Valley Road Region XIX Education Service Center Rich ardsonjexas 75080 P.O. Box 10716 (244)231-6301 6611 Boeing Drive El Paso, Texas 79997 Region XI (915) 779-3737. R, P. Campbell, Jr., Director Dr. Maxine Kamen itsa, Consu kept, Region XX Early Childhood Education Dr. Dwain Eites, Director Region XI Education Service Center Dr. Patricia Myers, Coordinator, Special 2821 Cullen Street Education Fort Worth, Texas 76107 RegionXX Education Service Center (817) 335-2441 1550 Northeast Loop 410 San Antonio, Texas 78209 RegionXII / (512) 828-3551 Mack Mullins, Director Gail Beaman, Psychological Associate, Special Education Region XII Education Service Center -P.O. Box 1249 401 Franklin Avenue Waco, Texas 76703 139' (817) 756-7494

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Child Welfare League Methodist Home Family add Children's Services of America Kennard B. Copeland. Administrator Donald 0. Robertson, Executive Director Texas Agencies 1111 Herring 650 Main Street Waco, Texas 76708 Beaumont, Texas 77701 (817) 753-0181 The following agencies are accredited (713) 833-2658 by the Child Welfare League, a national Associate Agencies Family Counseling Service organization which issues standards for Gerald D. Kizerian, Executive Director Cumberland Presbyterian Children's Home a option, foster care and other services. 507 South Water Street The Rev. James C. Gilbert, Executive Director Corpus Christi, Texas 78401 P.O. Drawer G (512) 882 -2548 . Child and Family Serfice Denton, Texas 76201 Richard Standifer, Executive Director .(817) 382-5112 Family Guidance Center 419 West Sixth Street. Paul Cromidas, Executive Director Lena Pope Home, Inc. 2203 Main Street Austin. Texas 78701 . Leland Hacker, Executive Director Dallas, Texas 75201 .1 (512) 478-1648 4701 West Rosedale . . (214) 747-8331 Hope Cottage-Children's Bureau, Inc. Fort Worth, Texas 76107 (817) 731-8681 Jewish Family Servicej Betty Rushing, Executive Directdr'- P.O. Box 19803 Bernard Goldstein, Executive Director Children's Servide Bureau 11333 North Central Expressway Dallas, Texas 75219 CaVin H. Dodds (214)526.8721 Suite219 Executive Secr,elary Dallas, Texas 75231 625 North Almo Street Edna Gladney Home . . (214)369-8612 Rubype Piester, Executive Director Sari Antonio, TeItas78215' . (512) 223-6281 2110 Hemphill . . Family Service of El Paso Fort Worth, Texas 76110 Robert J. Kemp, Director (817) 926-3304 2930 North Stapton Street ' El Paso, Texas79902 DePeichin Faith Home (9)5) 532' 491*- - Charles W. McBrayer, Executive Director Family Service Association of 100 Sandman Street America, Texas Agencies FainilyService-Travelers'Ala Association of Houstocr, Texas 77007 Tarrant County . : , (713) 861-8136 . Gten-J. Good, Executive Director The following-agencies belong to the Hunter Pfaza, 212 Burnett Street- Pauline Stems Wolff Memonal Foundation Family Service Association, a national Fort Worth, Texas 76102 -Beh Tau6, President organization emphasizing strong family (817) 335-2401 909 Franklin Street , life as the basis for community. survival Houston, Texas 77002, .. Family-Service of Galveston 4 8. . John Franklin Willis, Executive Diredtor catholic Family and Children's Service,Inc. 107 Texas Builditig, Archdiocese of San Antonio Family Seniice of Amarillo Galveston, Texas 77550 Manuel J. Gonzalez; Director Divid Worthen, Acting Director (713) 762-8636 2903 West Salinas 900 Lincoln P.O. Box 7158 Amarillo, Texas 79101 Family Service Center of Houston and San Antonio, Texas 78207 (806) 372 -3202 tlarris.C.ounty (512)433-3256 Edwin F. Christman, Jr., Executive Director Child and Family Service 3635 West Dallas Family Counseling and Childre Services of Richard Standifer, Executiv Director' Houston, Texas 77019 i Waco Texas, Inc. 419 West Sixth Street (713) 524-3881 Fah Laidler, Executive Dir Austin. Texas e 4 P.O. Box 464 (512)478-1648 Jewish Family Service Waco, Texas 76703 4 Ruth Hutton Fred, Executive Direttor (817) 753-1509 4131 South Braeswood Boulevard Houston, exas 77025 (713) 667-9336

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Family Service Association Dr. LOUIS A. ttrybalxi. Director Frank A. Cleaver, Ekecutive Director Margaret Elbow. Executive Desoto( . Community Welfare Council United Fund of Houton 2206 Broadway 118 North Broadway, Suite 532 215 Main Street Lubbock, Texas 79401 San Antonio, Texas78205 Houston. Texas 77002 (806) 747-3483 (512) 227-5133 (713)224-1701

Family Counseling Service of Midland Daniel R DuSttne.n. Executive Director Bany S. Candy. Executive Director Anthony V. Rao, Director Action Planning Council Brazoria Courky United Fund 2101 West Wall. Room 9 201 West Wado Drive P.O. Box 546 9 Rrverc.rest Building Waco. Texas 76707 Angleton, Texas 77515 Midland, Texas 79701 (8-17) 752-8357 (713)849-5711, ed. 357 (91e) 683-4241 .Mrs. DeWitt Thompson. Executive Director Family Counseling Service of Port Arthur United Fund of Lubbock W. Robert Paulson, Jr., Executive Director 2201 Nineteenth Street Brown Center Majo United Way Lubbock. Texas 79401 2353 Ninth Street (806) 747-2711 Port Arthur. Texas 77640 Orgaffizations in Texas (713)985-2514 Olin W. LeBaron, Executive Dirisctor Among the many local United Way Brazoria County Welfare Planning Council Family Services Association of an Antonio organizations in Texas, twenty-three 260 East Locust Street, Room 5, James Gamble, Executive Director Angleton, Texas 77515 230 Pereida Street employ a staff to work on a year-round San Antonio, Texas 78210 basis. These major United Ways are Marilyn Van Petteii, Executive Director (512) 226-3391 listed here with names of executive United Way of Midland P.O. Box 1216 Family Counseling and Children's Services of directors. Midland, Texas 79701 Waco, Texas. Inc. (915) 692-4356 Patt Laidier, Executive Director 201 West Wacobrrve ' George E:Boyd. Executive Director Bo Jones. Executive Director P 0 Box 464 United Fund of Austin United Fund of Ector County Waco. Teicas 76703 P.O. Box 1925 200 Heache Building (817) 753-1509 Austin, Texas 78767 Odessa, Texas 79760 (511) 472-6267 (915) g32-0341 John W. Sylveiter, Executive Director Robert E. Dear, Executive Director Baytown Community Chest United Community Services United Way - P.O. Box 425 P.O. Box 13 . Community Planning Councils Baytown, Texas 77520 Port Arthur, Texas 77640 in Texas (713) 422-6793 (713) 985-5533 Marvih B. Justice, Executive Director Marion B. McKinney. Executive Director Community Planning Councils are United Way of Abilene United Fund research and development bodies 201 Lone Star Gas Building Tom Green County 201 Trust Building supported by United Funds. The Abilene, Texas 79501 (915) 677-1841 San Angelo, Texas 76901 Councils-work closely with public and (915) 653-2311 private agencies, prow rnnformation, Richard B. POritious. Executive Director Dr. Almaron M. Wilder, Director 'referral and directories. United Appeals P.O. Box 1430 United Way of San Antonio 4 Beaumont, Texas 77704 P.O. Box 12372 - Larry Meyers. Executive Director (713) 835.4575 San Antonio, Texas 78212 (512) 227-0376 Communitytouncil Robert H. Smith, Executive Director 1005 West Sixth Street' Coastal Bend United Way Tommy E. Adams, Executive Director Austin, TeXas 78703 833 Wilson Building Texarkana United Way . (512) 476-7521 Corpus Christi, Texas 78401 P.O. Box 106 Roy E. Dulak.gxecutive Director (512) 882-2529 Texaikana, Texas 75501 Community Council (501) 774-3105 J. J. Guise, Jr.. Executive Vice President 1720 Life Building United Way of Metro Dallas H. Sam ReigiExecutive Director Dallas.Texas75202. 901 boss Avenue United Fund' (214) 741-5951 Dallas, Texas 75202 Mainland Communities Richard C. Hagerty; Director (214) 741 -18Q P.O. Box 1068 Division of Planning Texas City. Texas 77590 Kenneth T. Osman, Executive Director, *-El Paso United Way , (713) 948-4211 UniteciWarof El Paso County P.O. Box 3488 . P.O. Box 3488 John W. Bradberry, Executive Director El Paso. Texas 79923 EI,Paso, Texas 79923 United Community Fund (916) 533-2 (915) 533-2434 P.O. Box 1444 James W. Mathews, Executive DireCtor Tyler, Texas 75701 Glenn M. Wilkins, Executive Vice President United Way, Amarillo (214) 597-6376 United Way of Metro-Tarrant County P.O. Box 3069 2117East Ninth Robert L Herbert, Executive Director Amarillo, Texas 79106 Fort Worth, Texas 76102' Greater Waco United Fund George E.McClure, Executive Director (817) 335-3473 P.O. Box 2027 community Welfare t ning Waco. Texas 76703 , .United Fund, Galveston 215 ?Ain Street (817) 753-3668 416 National Hotel Building Houston. Texas 77002 Galveston, Texas 77550 William S. Link, Executive Director (713) 224 -1701 (713) 765-5737 Wichita Falls United Fund 300 Wichita Title Building Wichita Falls, 1740 76301 (817) 322-8638 140 141 - State- Laws Affecting Children Passed in 1975

Ampng the bills passed byttseWkouse 81111126 Texas Legislatureweff-Severat Effective-Sept 7975 affecting childseunder age6: -_- following is a listing by Replacing Sec. 16.16, Texas Education category. law may have other Code, New Sec. 16.104, authorizing a provisions, in addition Whose etted. comprehensive education program for, For a,copy of the.complete law, see exceptional children in Texas and allowing some school districts and Vernon'aSessicin law Service, regional education service centers. Texas Laws 1976, available in most under certain rules and regulationsto legal libraries. For more information contract with nonprofit corporations for about these and other laws affecting the provision of services to exceptional children and families in Texas; children. contact the Family Caw Section, r" ',I. State Bar Association. Senate Bill 1114 Effective June 19,1975

Ethication Amending Art. 5159d, Vernon's Texas ., Civil Statutes, exempting from the Texas r MiniMum Wage Act any employee who House Billt673 . is employed with his spouse bk a Effective June 3f,1975 nonprofit educational institution to serve.

as parents of certain children. _ Amending Art. 3207d, Vernon's Texas ' Civil Statutes, authorizing the 34 Govern'or's Coordinating Office for-the Visually Handicapped to maintain a, current and comprehensive register.of ,Family Affairs' the blind and those handicapped bya visual condition which is likely to deteriorate. House Bill 53 r. Effective Sept.'1,1975,_

1 Senate Bill 759, Amending'Rule 47a, Ail. 4477, Vernon's Effective June 19,1975 Texas Civil StatuteS;-regulatin g the issuance of birth anddeath certificates Amending Sec. 11.27, Texas Education of illegitimate children. Code, tiroviding.eduCaton and care for

ti multiply handicapped persons under 21 - yearsold.

-14g 4 Senate Bill 705 Child Care Effective June 19,1975

Amending Art 4447d-2, Vernon's Texas Senate Bill 965 Civil Statutes, requiring th Effective Jan. 1,1976 . immunization reminder notices be-sent s/ without regard to legitimacy of the child.Amending Art. 695a-31Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, relating to licensure, certification, or registration of child care Senate Bill 407 facilities and authorizing a state - Effective Sept 1,1975 advisory committee.

Amending Art. 695a-2 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, joining Texas with othert Senate 8111429 states in an interstate compact for Effective Sept 1,1975 placement of children out of state. Amending Art. 695a, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, requiring the Secretary of Housel3i111793 State to notify theDeparfinent of Public Effective Sept. 1,1975 Welfare of filing of charters for child care facilities. Mending Art. 695a-5. Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, regulating placement in Texas of children frorri other states. House Bill 1308 Effective Sept.1,1975 s

Senate Bill 34 knendingrt. 695a-4, Vernon's Texas ;4 4fective May 27,1975 , Civil Statutedesignating the Department of Public Welfare to Amending Art 695c, Vernon's Texas administer certain federally established Civil Statutes, forbidding sale or day care programs. purchaseof a child by a person who has custody, conservatorship or guardianship of,the child for4he purpose House Bill 569 of adoption. Effective Sept. 1,1975, . = _ .

Senate 8111763- Amending Art. 695c, V ernon's 4 Effective June 19,1975 Civil Statutes, requiring personsI o prepare and dispense food in a child care facility to have a health certificate. Amending Art. 46b-2, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, allowing for payment to subsidizthe.adoption of hard-to-place (usually multi-handicapped or raeially mixed) children.

Senate Bill 943

. EffactiveJune19,1975

_ _ Amending Art. 695c;-Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, the Department of Public Welfare to provide- . child supportcollection, parent locabor and paternity determination services to enable the Department to participate in federally established programs. 4

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.4 a *4 y. r 144 143 Appendix B(1)Number of Children Served in Selected Programs Com. Texas Department for the of Department of Health Resources. Blind Community immunization Affairs Mgemal Treated Program C' dreg, Kand.cappel andol-idcupoed EPSDT EP OT Gas's and Under Sa tocen s , Head Stan Head Stem Head Stan s Dereal Mix:kcalPrevent on of {Cord ,1970 Carrsus, Provar Day Pan Day Snme Sary.ces Serycest Provram PraramTuAseecoosa DTP Pow:,Ueasiesarbegia Anderson 2,356 4 20 - 8 26 . 67 2 1,8561,664 1,625 1,461 Andrews 1,061 2 373 5 2 - 2 901 806 735. 637 Angelina 5,612 6 15'. 57 133 3 4,4504,283 3,781 3,397 Aransas 883. 2 13 7 9 46 - 640 559 553 489 Archer 486 -- 2 3 - 339 295 282 246 65 . Armstrong 128 -, 1 -- 90 78 76 -Atascosa 2.108 75 14 47 146 8- 1,7661,624 1.601 1,455 Austin 1,164 - 3 22 56 4 860 764 761 681 Bailiy 1,018 2 - 4 18 21 5 795 713 718 642 Sande ra 315 - 2 - 6 - 223 198 204 186 Bastrop 1,637 2 80 - 8 13 47 10 1,2831,143 1,104 984 270 244 Baylor 404 1 - - 2 6 9 - 295 260 1,621 Bee 2,54 1 363 53 13 37 120 13 2,032. 1,785 1,805 Bell 13 7 27 80 768 65 31 , 273 6 9,4438,342 8.094 7,232, Bazar .683 98 761 349 11,394 631 1,444 2,705 405 75,940 67,595 66,90660,517 Blanco 270. 1 18 - 5 2 9 - 204 178 168 147 Borden 68 --,--- 60 52 51 45 Basque 687 - 3 3 10 1 547 471 476 432 4,845 4,970 4,415 Bowie . 6.966 18 75 - 11 68 141 8 5,418 Brazoria 12,100 8 156 34 38 138 18 9,311 8,660 8,241 7,388 Brazos 6.564 6 115 305 - 20 84 151 9 4,7754,446 4,225 3,882 Brewster 722 2 80 - 6 9 27 2 668 588 6044 553 Briscoe 265 - 2 --- 203 187 179 175 Brooks 947 6 20 . 41 8 21 67 5 781 682 704 640 -. Brown 2,006 18 80 5 19 70 - 1,6341,568 1,478 1,333 Burleson 867 4 12 85 1 738 638 621 570 Bumet 826 2 40 _ 7 2 15 2 661 582 638 587 Caldwell 1,945 40 11 15 101 2 1,641 1,444 1,468 1,339 1,568 1,604 1,442 Calhoun 2,194 3' 4f3- 8 19 '148 12 1,709 Callahan 544 \2 3 4 - 394 352 341 307 Cameron 18,456 78 446 , 577 317 513 .k2:16' 16,872 14,24214,98413,808 Camp 767 4 - 4. 10 66* - 594 530 531 481 355 341 298 Carson 564 2 - 1 4 4 4 404 Cass 2,301 9 80 - 6 29 68 6 1,881 1,733 1,694 1,552 Castro 1,506 1 80 - 4 6 - 1 1,1761,083 1,042 933 Chambers 1,299 2 , 247 6 10 17 - 1,052 926 922 839 Cherokee 2,671 . 35 50 118 6 5 26 3 2,1361,914 1,843 1,668 350 Childress 454 1 -- 3 -- 312 333 299 Clay 493 2 18 1 3 7 1 422 369 V-5 310. 615 40 1 2 10 1 482 423 425 375 Cochran 0 Coke 227 ...... - 2 2 1 159 143 132 116 Coleman 727 20 - 2 5 32 - 562 518 489 439 Collin 8,476 12 40 157 16 30 106 8 6,5355,701 5,648 5,127 248 224 Collingsworth 361 1 - 1 2 -- 271 261 Colorado 1,536 1 3 35 64 1 1,1661,044 1,006 894 C6mat 2,318 6 71 - 17 20 99 12 1 1,7501,575 1,512 1,348 Comanche 859 3 - 3 6 18 2 653 586. 589 526 Concho 266 2 - 1 2 3 - 211 180 194 168 1,319'1,170 Cooke 2,147 1 - 200 - 5 11 35 - 1,5421,347 Coryell 2,796 4 - 9 1 17 2 1,9901,736 1,685 1,491 Cottle 277 1 20 1 3 - - - 200 17-6* 170 149 Crane 453 -- 2 ,5 327 287 ,275 241 Crockett 454 - 1 .5 21 4 412 351 355 324 674 Crosby ,1,088 1 40 - 3 27 19 2 859 rm. 741 Cu lbe rson 488 2 20 - 2 4 . - _3 445817, 4102 4384 33:71. Da Ilam 653 - 1 -- Dallas 154,814 96 505 . 30 {4,026 199. 1,531 4,086 198 1,19,579108,2101'0423693,580 .1,387 1,245 Dawson 1,946 , 3 so . - 8" 10 38 4 1,557 1,429 Deaf Smith 2,681 9 -...,_ 7 9 39 1 2,199 1,968 2,016 1,849 1 5 . 26 2 281 251 236,, 206 Delta 398 - .. Denton 7,338 4 t- 100 114 14 '74' 94 4 5,2394,828 4,633 4,168 De Witt 1,549 3 . 4110 9 15 74 6 1,258 1,138 1,139 1,012 155 Dickens 304 1 40 - 2 . ;18 18 - 210....) 184 177 1,087 1,018 938 Dimmitt 1,235 4 , 106 60 - 16 -24 80 17 1,128 Donley 206 2 - 1 5 8 - 174 . 176 162 146 Duval 1,325 3 100 125 8 24 83 t4 1,249 1,202 1,139 1,046 Eastland 1,145 2 - 3 12 29. 2 868 785.761 683 Ector 10,169 18 100 561 33 86 84 13 7,798 47,067 6.813 5,966

'144 145 in 1975 by County jinte Frguresrepresent children served in FY 1975 (September' 3. 1974-August 31.1975). Texas Department State of Mental Health Dbpt. Texas Education Agency of Public and Mental Retardation . Welfare Prescbool I Human Aid to Fambes Foodabonu Program to Mfgrard M,grant Stab Hol,' Slate school _oeyewrrona ireth Depsockten School Co,ioren with Deal-libno Eour.eron Eoucabon &bogus tvgoorgarito ProonorOsnen Hosodals Cvoreact Schoois Ovtreach,Centers Canters Crkiron Kneorgarlars Hearing Loss Protect tPlanAI trPtan BtProgram Program program 2 .3 168 56 1 1 -184 '26 2 10 411 590 33 84 *no , 48 wow...... 1 8 88 - -...... ,.. 22. r- - 1 1 225 381 16 102 171 _ 15 .-- 3 34 133 _ _ 9 5 47 2 7 64 . I 181 2 101 3 10 7 8 74 - 185 276 133 17 29' T 1 a 201 597 1,915 208 147 3 2 4 202 12,979 12,609 10 17 1,668 126 133 62 10 .56 . i - - 4 ... 13 - - 1 25 164 _ 6 ' ` 1 16 , 934 9 4 5 5 1 195 48 4 5 2 5 35 _ 406 2,140 264 69 s.., _ 2 1 5 321 777 117 , . 48 37 98 31 6 _ . 2 5 - 27 --_7 - 2 106 115 . - -, _ _ 1 - - - 13 122 359 \V3 _ _ 2 155 157 --Ir' _ _ 3 1 , 43 158 _ 7 2 '156 253 66 11 11 15 3 _ 1 210 310 .. \. 1 87 6 88 . a 21 1 10 4 2,390 3;436 _ . '56, 4 209 526 205 I? 74 106 _ 29 - - 2 t 7 92 _1 204 343 ,18.- - 1 34 20'9 _ ...... 67 59 _ 1 35 71- 204 _ 38 4 =t 150 '364 28 37 1 - 2 14 60 4 1 ,15 68 31 1 , 2 7 85 17 -t- 3 41 . _ 70 114 __. 37 8 305 1,902 2 262 1 ,- 19 67 ..... 158 222 8 128 385 80 - - 41 ;76 65 .e... .,4 37 ...1 q 20 79 310 104 . L - - 15 32. . 529 91 _. ;.. __- ...z ..- i) 21 35 , 1 _ _ . _ ..-.- %. _ 1 --, 9. , 79 _ _ 21. 72 _ _ _ --:-- . 2 --. 73 183 28 15 55 39 _ _ 14 61 - I - -.. 2 7 .-".., 10 - 76 11 43 59 319 -; - 12,217 20,420 12 1,931 110 . _. to - - 2 117 193 41 42 . - - 1 T -; 3 92 360 104 140 157 155 38 77 1 18 2 301 1,388 1 209 133 1 186 253 88 - 4 25 53 - _ ._,_18 4 2 158 216 70 45 -- '1 1 9 32 . - 1 1 2 131 220 - 7' 1 8. 10 23 _ 51 153 33 2 1 37 -923 1,447 297 . , .

146 145 \ Appendix B(1) (Cont.) Corn. Texas Department 'for the of -Deprtinent of Health Resources Blind Community immunization' Visually Affairs Maternal Treated Chadian, Handicapped and ChildGrips:AO EPSOT EPSOT Cases and Program* Linder Six Children s Head Start Head Start tisad Stan Hearth Chitdren.sDentalMedicalPrevention of County (IVO ansus) Program rvitDay Part Day Surnmgr Servces Servivss Program ProgramTaal:41rub2S4 DTP Poo Maims Patella Edwards 257 1 15 15 30 6 19 - '189 165 162 143 _Ms 4,974 5 9 42 3 3,6653,2873224 2,876 El Paso 44,521 148 1220 Ai, 13,957 233 683 844 217 37,03432,334 32,51529,534 Erath 1,224 40 3 7 5 _5 889 .776, 786 700 Falls 1,442 2 7 16 69 - 1,196 1,0531.080 978 Fannin 1,691 7 19 44 - 1,277 1,1021,159 1,049 Fayette 1,116 39 3 5 29 807 723 " 705 619 Fisher 543 - 1 7 23 1 382 336 323 283 c. Royd 1298 5 3 12 20 4 1,141 1,012 958 863 Foard 146 1 8 - 103 91 87 76 Fort Bear 6,593 3 15 42 209 13 5,1104,5524,548 4,059 Fra nin 367 2 1 - 267 236 244 219 Freestone 860 75 1 3 27 2 608 532 519 455 Frio 1,600 3 60 14 32 90 8 1,479 1,3371.190 1,093 Gaines 1.412 2 5 4 _ 5 1,125 963 979 876 Galveston 17,840 18 200 107 2,113 76 Q2 229 27 13,66712,833 12,13510,920 Garza 533 3 1 28 411 364 361 321 Gillespie 871 2 40 20 3 10 631 551 530 467 Glasscock 14 -- 110 97 95 85 Goliad 3 10 42 317 277 265 231 Gonzales 1,602 - 4 100 10 7 227 19 1,2571,1181,160 1,046 Gray 2,458 4 60 3 7 ,13 1 ,860 1,681 1,634 1,457 Grayson 7,957 6 459 26 60 132 7 6,1395,391 5,3734,835 Greer 7,782 4 23 82 254 2 6,7535,5855,4224,916 'Grimes 998 1 3 12 59 - 801 669 599 Guadalupe 3,486 4 t29 26 43 208 16 2,5302,236 2,2(12 1,954 Hale 3,994 13- 20 558 22 39 20 7 32552,9502,8002,656 Hall 513 40 1 2 419 371 360 322 Hamilton 402 2 4 - 296 260 266 236, Hansford 706 . 3 604 588 535 488 Hardeman 576 --- 2 1 27 - 408 358 358 318 Hardin . 3,358 6 20 12 82 87 8 2,553 2,241 2,210 1,995 Harris 203,774 . 112 1,544 14,004 457 2,101 4,432 67 158,756143,496 144,487129,790 Harrison 4,537 3 55 55 179 12 150 276 8 3,5802,9693,1262,823 Hartley 269 1 - 224 238 224 203 Haskell 715 1 11 12 - 537 477 473 412 Hays 2,6'19 7 36 20 270 21 30 107 12 2,054 1,844 1,800 1,615 Hemphill 302 -- 1 1 - 255 239 233 218 Henderson 2,274 1 9 27 110 - 1,693 1,4901,4651,326 Hidalgo 24,470 63 1,049 162 1,681 186 557 1,478 225 22,18719,886 20,76319,310 Hill 1,782 1 20 60 - 5 11 37 4' 1,400 1,2281,2471,135 'Hockley 2,300 7 100 10 25 2: 1,8061,608 1,6071,439 Hood , 530 1 2 1` 17 1 379 330 333 302 Hopkins 1,864 5' 4 20 46 1,306 1,143 1,133 1,001 Houston 1,613 7 66 85 1 1,248 1,110 1.1521,037 Howard 3,958 3 , 200 251 23 12 66 ./2 3,0092,630. 2,5672,299 Hudspeth 282 2 -- 293 295 248 230 Hunt 4,328 ,3 - 58 7 63 98 3,2822,9472,911 2,637 Hutchinson 1,887 2 40 11 1,359 1,2101,259 1,123 Irian 87 1 63 56 52 46 Jack 516 1 384 344 351 317 Jackson 1,302 ,e2 6 21 91 5 1,072 949 973 879 Jasper 2,650 8 11 78 77 2,180 1,9621,975 1,784 Jeff Davis. 156 1 20 2 3 - 112 102 103 93 Jefferson- 23,805 29 230 200 210 1,358 89 340 744 61 18,18616,57115,67013,973 Jim Hogg 549 4 42 124 4 5 43 4- 458 426 428 389 Jim Wells. 4,018 14 60 30 61 192 14 3,3102,9552,8032,558 Johnson 4,782 8 13 21 66 5 3,336 2,9162,901 2,586 Jones 1,342 3. 11 51 3 1,090 969 970 874 Karnes 1,465 5 'es 9 22 101 16 ,120 1,041 979. 880 Kaufman 2,998 4 100 60 7 47 60 -- 2,3962,0952,1351,926 Kendall -598 4 3 19 9 452 425 443 388 Kenedy . 76 '2 2 55 48, 46 AO Kent 98 74 67 62 53 Kerr 1,374 1 7 72 3 996 884 too 796 Kimble, 392 a' 2 19. 3 289 249 243 215 King 51 35 30 30 26 :Kinney 204 1 11 12 '2 157 139 136 121

146 147 -

Children Sereed in Selected Programs by County.

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' 348 2 Fs: 1,394 902 2 1 1 ''-1,, ___- ' ._ - - 162 260 -7 67-' _.;-_:-, ...... - , -- -- 2 102 268 -,.= -:66 24 * 18 .7- - . -. -- "...-: - -. -19 119 ,.- - _ . -- - 9 I - 121 - -:, es ^,-- -- *-- 283 219 .:' - - ..... 24 ...- 44 -7 5 ,-,:".:(.. - - 150 475 - -.107--- - ... ..-_,- 4-11 - 4 56 - -2 3 14 ,..1,-,.:-i 3 346 ---'.. 542 .;-7- 108 -- r - 5 5 32 \ 231 - . ,... - - ':' .:..38Cr.;- =-- - _ . ....- -_: 7, -- - 2 11 ..... ,. - - 9 72 ,..- 4------.... r.,9,-::::;-:%''...:;=. --.- 1 2 1 117 217 -.....- -.' ._--: -- ','2- - - j.--='=;.r.,7,;:-.;1.2 ,1,:--"- 7" 8 3 279 .406 : - .... ---1- - .e .1;1:-.__...., ...*:,./,:" - -- 5 31 , 3 -r - - 10 27 1,969 2,193 - 1 53k--' '.--,-,16 16 4 ---- 43 77 ,-- ;--- 4 - 3 - 446 492 - . :" - 68 38, ' . 1 1 - - 271 751 - .. .2- .213 i - . - 1 105 - -- 232 - , 48,I 4= ,- . _- 138 170 - : ,------. 16 1 1 .- 253 483 169 .------19 116 - , - - ;.',-- . .-- ...:. -.7- - . ------1 10 - 1: - ..... , - ....- ., --- 2 11 -- , ,,,- ,...... , -- 1 -- 96 165 7...... - P.V -- 4 !A/ -- :.. -- -. --- 34 62 -:-.....- . .,:-..,...-; - . --- 1 3 - --1....L. _ ....,_ 0 ,. - . 5 '-' ...... ,, , ;,.., ; ..%..... , - ...... ,. : -- 25 44 ...i. - - - - - ....---- -"to- . L , Appen x g (C9M.) , -Texas Dep Artmen_ for the of.-:-7-- .. Department of Health Resources. Blind,- Community / . Immuniation : Affairs. ,:--ihwesid. i Treated Prbgramf Chariton Handcamod -. .,,' ',. and Child .ChDdied EPSOT EPSDT Cases and _ Under Chasten s-- mead $tart-Head Start Head Sten tiea1/12--ChtTexeri, Dental - Up:kcalPreventoon ot C.4.9% .1970 Census,. Program funDa v .. . Pan Dar Summel ' Servces Bermes t Program Program TubertAoS,S OW Pons) Wastes Rubella / rg. 3,703- '7 - --,-.. _ 13 59 :!"148 : 4 2.909 2,6972,6172,356 x 496 2 - - :----:.----.2- 22 '30 - 351 309 303 . 261 10 60 60 -, -607-:.: .- -- 12 -:-.-_,57 179 3 2.9652,643 2,662 Lamar . "2,830 7.7 2,404- Lamb 1,898- 3 -,...... 10 -,",-2.,:*45 . 39 .5 ..---_--4560TWT.3*- 1A1-31,282 Lampasas 833 - __...... ' - 3 ':- 10. --.-7.4.- a- -=-'-7735',--:--660 651 601 ,-,. -_ 40 La Salle _ 641 3 - 8 43 93 1 600- ,550 554 509 Lavaca ''1,355 3 - 7 4 16 7 1,023 -594 875 779 LeO 611 - - --._ . - 3 -I 32 - 496 457.. -994 448 Leon 684 - - 104:- - 4 6 . 23 7 537 482. .-522 473 Liberty 3,331 1 - 100 - -11 23 104 " 1 -.:.t577., 2.560_ 2,3642,125 Limestone 1,131 2' --.- 5 14 53 ..:,2,...;-. 940 800 835 753 Upscomb 248" .- --'- -- _ 184 161 15.4. 115 LiverOak 740 3' - - 3 2' 11 - 583 541 511 488 Llano, 362 1 17 - 2- --- 287 258 256 231 ------.c..- - .7 ----"--'-7- 6 8 Lubbock 20,211 '1.35 - ..-- 1,111 '94 192 424 g 15,968 t4;808 14,034 12521' Lynn 1,039 -4--''' - --- 5 8 33 3 , 788_694 699 624 --McCulloch 796 -- - r - 20 - 3 2 f 3 1 642 63'1,... 591 547 IsicCennay13,107 31 484 54 756 64 185 557 9 10.2219,265 9,3708,430 .:.:,--. -McMullen' . 103 :-- -- 1 1 -1 . - 91 72.--._ 73 65" -: _.- -Ma-cliton -.-.---,-173 - - :--- 32 2 12 63 - 424 387 366 7324 .,_.,,,.: -Marion - *:_ 749 _,--- *" 1 4 35 5 554 497 483 430 , - -,, ,- "- 4 - - '2 6 2 --- 7 436 376 375 '334 ,--.. ...,....:.- Mason-- --244-- -/"..- . - 2 - 6 -. 188 175 158 144 -.-- . --:.-r ' Matagorda 3,02E1 . ,... .., - ' 196 60 - 8 39' 120 4-2,450 2,1452,189- -1,963 ._-- '- Maverick 2,581 '95 -' 160 109 24-,-,- ,59 232 28 2,308 2,1092,181 2,005 -:-- : Medina 2,286 3 ------13 - -,_ 38 74 0 -1,820, 1,8051,595..1,441 Meliard., 236 - ., _ 1 2-- .6 - 185 173 154"143 -Midland .. 6,742 4 - 140 .- 720 26 ,84'- 149 15 5,254 4,7954,4923,918 Milam---:-.... 1,806 2 - -- 13 29 119 2 1,450 1,3791,3331,203 ,Mills *-* -.:..-. -., 270 15' 1 1 2 212 181 179 163 - - ,.-. - -- - 2 4 7 23. -513,1_ 536 519 461 *--";;-:---:"-_.' Mitchell 864 - ..- - ... - ,,Montagbe 1153 - . - - ._: - 2 7 - 24 _. -. *---- 842 737 759 613 ----** Mcnitgoritery 4.915 8. --- 479 . 16 . 34 -94, 6 3,734 \ 4,0233,7333,404 Moore .--r- -- 3 3 -- 2 1,2811,1671,134.- 1,027 -Morris- -1.134-. - ,5 - -- 3 55 109 - 806 706 679 : 594 ____.- _ .Motley 153 - --- - 1 4 4 :,21-_, ..117 103',103 90 '11., 21 122- - Nacogdoches 3,038 _.I-5 55 35 -- 3 2,303 2,080 2,0371,822 Navarro 2,732_ ,6--... - -.. -,1,0511, 60 -- 17 :j:,. 88 90 6 2,144'-2,0261,8401,673. Newton. .. 1,459' ' 2.4--- - - 7 _. 28 32 - -1,102..-'993 993' 900 Nolan- 1,545 6 --- 5 9 -;-:.36, 3 -1,342197.1,2031,099 ... 27,937 45,- 460. -1,442 180 , 4951,072 "*.._65 22.79620,745 19,754 17530 , . :Nueces[- - - - Ochiltree''2,.1.,144 1 - '-- 1 2- %-- ':-:- 1 913 859 849 769 -_:-- Oldham '..: - 182, - -,----- 1 --- 128 :._111 106 93 Orange...,_.. 870P,ilo 139 60 - 21 51 90 4. 6,580 6,253 5.836 5,240 *,... 'Palo Pinto-,*,:-.*:451 ,5 40 -- 79 4 2 19 3 2,528' 2,1912,145 1,921 - Panola- ..:" --"-1 '. 1 55 -- -5 12 69 3 993 ' 853 881, 784 .,...--_,;.:-., .., parker - 3114: ,2-:-0.- - - -6 ,- 8 20 - -,241 1.983 1290 ',1771 12.armer ,... 1400 20 - -- -5 2-,.- t I.1,014:898.849 .-,.759 -: 2ecos--.- 1570 :.!::::3,_...- -- . 6 7 34 . 10, ___--,1-,422--1,226, 1,207 1,078 Polk ''''..":::1A26 40 - "7 39 62 9-,--;-,?:,1771040 -1,1591059 , .- Potter'. 9.418 29-:: 3110* 82 31 , 62 -1'15 8 7558 6,761, 6,882 6,342%. :Piasidlo 5.55: , 1 , 90 4 1 26-.',' 11 '.475,426 472 Rains --- 269 ------, 1 ' 7 ", - 176 152., 145 17-. -:,-;-.., flindall-.;5584 5 - 6 *. 7 8 , 2 4,294, 3,817 9,5713,195 Reagan1;-;'-'.ii:: 320 -- ,1"- 3 5 . =-__, ---. 231 203'-;198 175._ - __, - _ -- . 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Appendix B (1) (Cont.) a '"I'exas Department .1 for the of Department of Healtfilleiources Blind Community . a Immunization keens* 4 Trammel C1-1eart Affairs Nog ramt intcapped and Chicl C.".pplecl EPSOT EPSOT Cases ar4 ittler6r. seed SW! Mud Start Head start Homan C.en s Ceintat latztocalPrevent.on f970 Ceris) ProOt" c.41Cay Par Ore . &elm*, Solacestemcest Ptaram PriamTubsecafrAss OTP- Pc.0 &Amin RabeNa 401, San Patrick, 6,035 23. 90 170 37 52 300 44 5,010 4,471 4,361 3,914 San Saba 1 425 .35 2 3 6 - 34t3 373 317 231 Schleicher . 190 1 , - -- 3 - 164. 164 146 147 Scurry- 7 4 66 2 1,181 1,093 1,090 930 Shackelford -213 - T 2, - 142 122 121 107 Shelby 1,836 1 37 ' 20 5 24. 65 2 1.401 1,gi 1.263 1,107 Sherman 432 1 -. -- 260 227 Smith '10.091 12 _ 360 451 26 243 448 12 7,703 7,035 6,611 .5,837 Sometvell 229 1 OP 1 '2 5 - 161' 140 134 118 Starr 2.410 12 35 .277 24 13 96 14 2,232 2.01? 2.165. Lon 'Stephens 697 2 2 32 37 561 503 4.96 440 Sterling ' .103 1 82 73 74 66 Stonewalt 156 3 . 2 123 . 105 104 92 Su1toni. 347 . - 4 6 - 273 241 205 18) SvWsheS 1.174 4 60 3. 1 - 838' . 739. 708 621 Tarrant' 79.535 67 295 '6.350. 233 530 2.115.102 60,09453,755-53,69748.18%- 9.735 21 220 39 545 33 -. 109 863 12 7A59 6.528 6,531 5,852 Torten . 206 1 1 1 5 - 148 131. 126 110 Terry 1.740 40 7 10 74 5 41'454 1.292 1,309 1,186 Throckmorton '123 .A_ 81 79 72 1,556 2 Titus 2 20 61 -1,168 1,027 1,032 921 120 Tom Green .6.878 6 120 .538 25 52 168 8 5,294 4,842 4,836 4,353-4 30,186 Travis 40 . 1.033 311 3,455 132 541 1.496 50 23,071'20,327'20,70018,600 Trinity, 662 1 11 74 45,3 4014 399 273 Tyler 1,163 - 1 6 30 55 1 894 789 .770 685 1.833' Uisbbr 3 5 12 48 2 1,444.1,321 1.331 1,291 Upton 528 20 '2 14 1 420 391 358 336 . Uvalde ?.042' 8 144 . 22 24 166 . 2 -1,745 1.567 1,483 1,347 Val Verde 3,580. 666 --4 10 595 22 38 271. 42 2,940 2,689-2,374 2,599 Van Zandt 1,743 2 7 17 67 1 1278 1,121 1,120 1,000 Victoria 6,202' 14 ,60 196 114 78 288 '29 4,832- 4,332 4205 3,769 Walker 1.783 '2 9 25 103 2 1,44811273 1,31'8 1.192 Wailer 1,276 2 22 57 2 998 873 .876 788 , Ward 1,536, 2 r 1.0 1 1 . 6 1,246 1;083 1.113, 1,013 Washirigton, ,1.537 4 43 81 13 1,179 1,055 1,047 924 Webb . 10219 66 220 20 ,800 '.751 70 149 524162 8,718 7,628 7,758 7,094 Wharton \e-s 3,788 4 60 ,C '13 7' 68 5 2,908 4382 2,604 2,330 Whetyer 478 - - -7 - 359 325 312 282 Wichita 11.374 18 113' 521 24 104 ,163, 2 8,468 7,502 7,272 6,476 Witbirger i 259 3 20 29 90 '6 952 87§ 928 Willacy 1,978 4 182 100 . 1 59 91 14 1,820 1,547 1:641;--1, Williamson 9 735 26 23 '63 3,001.2;845 2,669 2,410 Wilson 1-,413 73 .10, 31 112 7 1,178 1)66 1,129 896 Winkler - sea .2 3 '1 - 1 799 5E17 713 644 Wise 1,903 6 1 27 1,387 1,221 1,209 1,046 Wood 1,344 . - 6 8 27, 8 ,1,034 960 611 817 Yoakum 866 1, , 3 3 18 6 693.605 603 540 1,169 1 4 26 870 764 777 690 Zapata 517 3 146 4 .10 48. 3 464 425 441 409 e Ayala e 1,507 5 - 102 - 22 13 150 . 1,411 .1263 1,342 1,232 14,472 letal 1,221,036 1,675 10,142 7,165 ,3,591 83,337 13,92434,7792,780658,787 861,299 850,994765,937 . .

ForliscalYear Ending Aug 31, 1974, I t For Fiscial Year ending June V. 1975 I Includes children immunized byprwate.physicians. I

151

156. Children Ssz,ile-el in Setscted Programs by County Texas Department State' ' of Mental Health Dept. 4 Texas Education Agency and Mental Retardation of Public Welfare p.0,01 Krug" 44 Fars,as fcsVa Prooram for SP4c:41 Spools Ik4720:71 'Avant . Staleilesp-tu'StaseSesco? /C1 DevelOPTIor4wesOlperslons SMool ONicpses Plospotais ()save) Scroos 0...egc4 Comers C443 014*v, Echecabon Eciumboes80407,41K6609alonProosinanan Krogorvesse, fisaron toss 9,2:140 Misr A (PUr 131 ProVain Pro7am Prwarn SaS 937 119 61 24 7; 26 30. __ 21 89- 276 2 124. 271 303 157 . 5 82 42 914 1,509 2 "3a4 8 33. 188 455 6 / 139 198 ,131 1 1 48 108 . 15 1 5 22 2 9 74 111. 16 = 204 1 56 25 4 8 62 . 80 4,464- 12,225 8 1.104 298 98 . 9 13 508 1,265 1 340 101 44 7 26 1 = 127 . 226 25 40 -- 4 24 2 62 233 42 2 11 306 934 ..1 268 69 6 219 2555 4.057 3 518 21 42 1 99 136 27 99 202 5 204 282 71 1 16 91 1 224 310 51 42 47 4 268 607, 99 275 127 89 1 8 70 341 21 1l 3 404 -r 822 1 fal 2 1 295 313 1 41 -- 1 1 186 183 -7 10 7 21 235 56 194 227 76 14 1 1 968 1,471 '45 12' 132 74 1 1 2 253 443 133 5 1 22 62 31 . - 4 18 483 1.469 -Z 248 1 137 174 60 .--* 1 215 361 40 126 163 49 7 2 275 766 sk 1 169 17 21 15 118 224 _ 2 21 151 35 .1 63 307 80 1 79 245 37 1 32 152 5 7 45 143 49 12 = 49 95 42 26 1 s 232' 212 88 8 e14 350 615 2,585 2'12 *.- 255 95,571 1,77,079 10622,060' 3,842 3,699 , 4,640 2,640

. 152 4

151 4 AppendixB (2) ' LI 1:4 Childra4"'s 4 te,;; in Selected Programs Com. Texas Department 'for the of Department of Health Resources dlind Community Immunization Affairs Maternse Treaded Program su. c.1 -1,10 HarrIcappac &V C's-4C'. cures EPSOT EPS:Tr Cams all ,Uncasr-Si Cr,4Yert s 41,1 MeaO Vat Head Vart Head Start sDella: Pre.rm.cno Rehr '970 Ceenikiv Pm.rar, Davi Part Caw fyno 5zas Przs.ran Pfc.?., Jobs/moos* OW ',eavesP...aesa Alamo 113517 123 1.051 603 - 11.334 ,750 ..107 3,642 493 e9,8415 80.337 79,193 71,421 Brazos Valley . 12.640 7, 115 45 409 32 44 '.-.199 578 32 9,657 8.767. 8,534 7.718 Capital -43.284 62 1,279 .486 ;8 4.463 218 631 1,899 80 33,505 29,80130.002 26,960 Central Texas 19.659 34 - 50 .80 768 95 64 430 15 14.47212.858 12,525 11,217 'Coastal Bend 49.312 103 120 913 100 1.844 304 770 2.132 151 40.259 36.49135.106 31,703 Conch° Valley 10,50 10 120 140 - 598 39 71 242 17 8.193 7.481 7.338 6.625' Deep East -Texas 21.614 28 92 135 - - 75 392 888 21 16,89415,36014,973 13.446 East Teias 20.510 51 125 180. 360 748 121 620 1.593 48 32,036 28,077 27A50 24.669 Golden Crescent 14.644 za 60. - 210 .239 60 154 636 78 11.46610,27610,221 9;158 Gulf Coast 262,427 166 1.744 363 160. 16,999 653 .2.490 5.691 150204,137 165.631,185,184 165,373 Heart at Texas 19.009 36 504 114 75 756 86 232 753 18 14,91213,34913,527 12,191 Lower Rio Grande.44.904 .145 1.677 162 - 2.358 320 _ 933 2.062 535 40,879 35,675 37.388 34,598 Middle Rio Grande 12264 68 1.066 157 260 705 118 . 227 1.031 119 10564. 9.739 9,920 9,047 North Central' 281.171 213 945 190 240 20,784 537 2.464 6,956- 335 214.410 192,913 188,323169,042 North East Texas 19.652 54 135 85 140 - 44 304 700 20 15,02913.422 11482 12.061 North Texas 28.667 29 131 40 . t- 521, E 196 322 9 13,6e3 12.067 11,942 10,525 Panhandle 34.227 65 - 660 - 82 124 187 _ 23 26.655 24,037 23,605.21.357 Permian Basin 34.094 41 140 420 - 1.905 126 260 443 62 26.537 23.677 23,035 '20,369 South East Texas 35.433 44 369 220 270 1.358 122 473 921 73 27.319 25,065 23.716 21,206 South Plains 37.108 73 - 320 - 1.669 '169 396 753 51 29,574 26,938 25,976 23,034 South Texas 113.695 85 401 322 800 ,1.153 101 177 711 163 11,87210.49110.792 9,885 ,Texorna 11.795 7 -- 200 459 38 90 211 7 8.958 7,840 7,851 7.054 Upper Rio Grande 46.724 154 - 1.220 210 13.957 249 697 .900 233 38-.999 34,127 34.330 31.199 West Central Texas 24.263 48 58 320 39 545 84 273 828 27- 18,84216,860 16.609 14,884

Total 1.221.036 1.675 10.142 7.165 3.591 83.337'4.472 13,92434.779 2,780 958.787 861.299 850,994 765,937

For Fiscal Year Ending Aug 31, 1974 For Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1975 ,.includes children immunized by private physicians

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153 152 y 1-1 soion Te3cas Department State Dept. of Mental Health Texas Education Agency. and Mental Retardation of Public Welfare -f- Flynan A.3 rs EL)LINSa)cf) 42::: Esnecui Spocal ulna: 447sr Usk $40300-70 Stale Wco/COfforsewtyDeviopro-kt Stlxd .C.144rgel wen Deitaysz Eaucatoi Etkcabco 8.49,4s Xaxiseeiarion Promborgarlan HospokS Outeac1 0,..0"Co"Ws C4reirs . Krvergarla Hein./ LossProwl Aar) A) (PiatEt)1:407,,Power, %gram 4 10 4 8 14,386 15,348 10 18 1,991 126 , 226 106 _ 2 1 /13 1242 1.767 401 48 3 5 7 6 -16 1 3.748 6,395 7 1,102 50 178 1 a; 106 1 10 3 3 '2222: \L. 918 3,050 '1 , 353 .147 15 45 47 1 12 11 8 147 4.710 6,553 9 821 9 84 138 t3 6_ 2 11 - 445 1 .485 346 88 69 48 --. 1 2 2. 262 31 2272 2974, 5 160 404 _ 9 8 1 113 3.691 . 6,396 3 3 793 411 _ 7 3 5 1,338 1.936 2. 319 89 13 16 138 L2 79 23 385 40 20537 38.964 36 15 3,797 1.297 1 91 5 _ 4 2 62 - 2.183 . 2,267 1 422 82 22 5 10 63 6.014 8.492 -- 1205 2,083 1.156 5 t 4 1 1,348 150 4 ./425 . 334 307 7 59 176 406 19.158 .40.373 25 4,572 541 106 22 4 2 9 '20 - 2269 2.971 5 3 454 130 35 8 35 2 - 26 826 2.509 _ 1 427 5 _ . 6 1 116 68 .637 4.940. 19 3 1,345 222 170 242 159 _ 17 5 3 1.852 7 (738 . 655 93 153 210 120 -. 1' 5 13 47 2,553 3.918 _ 1 1,140' 178 16 _ 1 13 24 163 1,793 1 _ 6 37 657 118 62 502 237 1 1 1268 8 _ _ 151 365 205 - 1 60 522 1.451 _ I 21/93 65' _ _ 8 168 22 7- 331 7.598 917 26 15 _ 24 10 20 , 28 1.434 3.590 7 _ 3 924 " .25 '401 J. 44 13 347 -252 610 2,563 211 95.571 177.079 85 106 22.060 3,8423.699 4,640 2.640

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State Planning Regions

154 155 State Planning Regions. Permian Basin Borden, Crane, Counties and Their State Dawson. Ector, G Glasscock. Howard, and Their Counties Loy,ng, Martin,Uidlarki, Pecos, Reeves. Planning fiegion s Terrell, Upton. Wan" and Winkler..

South East Texas Hardin, Jefferson and Alamo State Atascosa. Bandera.= Anderson East Texas Orange. Comal. Fno. Gillespie. Guadalupe Andrews = Permian Basin Kendall, Kerr, Medina and Wilson, South Plains Baxley. Cochran, Crosby. Angeline Deep.East T Brazos Valley Brazos. Burleson. Grimes, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hale. Hockley. King. Aransas Coastal Leon. Madison. Robertson and Washington. iamb. Lubbock. Lynn. Motley. Terry and Archer North Texas -Yoakum. , Armstrong Panhandle Capital o tanco. Burnet. Caldwell. AtasOosa Alamo State Fayette. Ha. Lee.ano. is and South TexasJim Hogg. Starr, Webb and Austin Gulf Coast Williamson Zapata BaileySouth Mains Bandera Alamo State Central Texas Texoma Cooke. Fannin and Grayson. Bell. Coryell; Hamilton, Bastrop Capital Lampasas, Milam. Mills and San Saba Upper Rio Grande Brewster. Culberson, El Baylor North Texas Coastal Bend Aransas, Bee. Brooks. Duval.Paso. Hudspeth. Jeff Davis and Presidio. Bee Coastal-44nd Jim Wells, Kenedy, K g, Live Oak. Bell Central Texas West Central Texas Brown, Callahan. McMullen. Nueces. Refu io and San Patricia Bexar Alamo State COlernan, Comanche. Eastland, Fisher, Blanco CaOrtal Haskell, Jones. Kent. Knox. Mitchell. Nolan. Conch() Valley Coke, Conchs). Crockett. Borden Perinian Basin Runnels, Scurry. Shackelford, Stephens. IrionAmble, Mason. McCulloch, Menard. Bosque Heart of Texas Reagan. Schleicher. Sterling. Sutton and TornStonewall. Taylor and Throckmorton. Frown North East Texas Green drazona Gulf Coast Deep East Texas Angelina, Houston. Brazos Brazos Valley 'Jasper. Nacogdoches. Newton. Polk. Sabine. Brewster Upper Rio Grande San Augustine. San Jacinto. Shelby. Tnnity Briscoe Panhandle ' and Tyler 'Brooks Coastal Bend, Brown West Central Texas East Texas Anderson, Camp. Cherokee. Burleson Brazos Valley Gregg, Harrison. Henderson. Marion. Panola, Burnet Capital Rains. Rusk. Smith. Upshur. Van Zandt and Caldwell Capital Wood. *e Calhoun Golden Crescent Callahan West Central Texas Golden Crescent Calhoun, De Witt. Goltad, Cameron Lower Rio Grande Gonzales. Jackson. Lavacaand Victoria Valley Gulf Coast Austin, Brazona, Chambers. Camp East Texas Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Carson Panhandle Liberty. Matagorda, Montgomery, 144,alker. Cass North East Texas Waller andWharton. Castro Panhandle Chambers Gulf Coast ' Heart of Texas Bosque; Falls, Freestone. Cherokee East Texas Hill, Limestone and McLennan. L, Childress North Texas Clay North Texas Lower Rio Granp$e Valley Cameron, . Hidalgo and Macy. Cochran South Plains Coke Concho Valley Middle Rio Grande Dimmitt. Edwards, Coleman West Central Texas Kinney, La Salle, Maverick. Real, Uvalde. Val Collin .North Central Texas Verde and Zavala Collingsworth Panhandle Colorado Gulf Coast North Central Texas Collin. Dallas, Denton Comal Alamo State Ellis. Erath, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman. Comanche West Central Texas Navarro:Palo Pinto. Parker, Rockwall. at Concho Concho Valley Somerveil. Tarrant and Wise. Cooke Texoma North East Texas Bowie, Cass, Delta, Coryell Central Texas Franklin, Hopkins. Lamar. Morris, Red River Cottle North Texas and Titus. Crane Permian Basin Crockett Concho Valley North Texas Archer. Baylor, Childress, Crosby South Plains Clay. Cottle, Foard, Hardeman. Jack, .t Culberson Uppe'r Rio Grande Montague, Wichita, Wilbarger, Young. Dallam Panhandle Dallas Panhandle Armstrong, Briscoe. Carson, North Central Texas Castro. Collingsworth, Dallam. Deaf Srnith Dawson a Permian Basin Donley. Gray. Hall. Hansford, Hartley. Deaf Smith Panhandle Hemphill. Hutchinson, Cipscomb, Moore, Delta North East Texas Ochatree, Oldham, !Danner, Potter, Randall. Denton North Central Texas De Witt Roberts, $herman,Swishier and Wheeler. GoldenCrescent DickensSouth Plains Dimmitt Middle Rio Grande

156 155 11131,

\*,....^. . DonleyPanhandle iGhtt South Plains San Patricio Coastal Bend Duval Coastal Bend KinneyMiddle Rio Grande .Sari Saba Central Texas Eastland West Central Texas Moberg Coastal Bend Schleicher ConchciValley Ector Pennian Basin Knox West Central Texas Scurry West Central Texas Edwards Middle Rio Grande Lamar North East Texas Shackelford West Central Texas Ellis North Central Texas. Lamb South Plains Shelby Deep East Texas El Paso Upper Rio Grande LampasasCentral Texas Sherman Panhandle Erath North Central Texas LaSalleMiddle Rio Grande Smith East Teias FallsHeart of Teals LavacaGolden Crescent ScxnervellNbrth Central Texas Fannin Texoma Lee Capital Starr South Texas Fayette -.!- Capital Leon Brazos Valley StephensWest Central Texas Fisher West Central Texas Liberty Gulf coast Sterling Concho Valley Floyd South Plains LimestoneHeart of Texas Stonewt11, West Central Texas Foard North Texas Upscomb Panhandle Sutton Concho Valley Fort Bend Gulf Coast Live Oak Coastal Bend Swisher Panhandle Franklin North East Texas Uano Capital Tarrant North Central Texas Freestone Heart of Texas Loving Permian Basin lay:or West Central Texas Frio Alamo State Lubbock South Plains Terrell Permian Basin Gaines Permian Basin Lynn South Plains Terry South Plains Galveston Gulf Coast McCulloch Concho Valley Throckmorton West Central Texas Garza South Plains McLennan Heart of Texas Titus .North East Texas Gillespie Alamo State McMullen Coastal Bend Tom Green Concho Valley Glasscock Permian Basin Madison Brazos Valley Travis Capital Gonad Golden Crescent Marion East Texas Trinity Deep East Texas Gonzales Golden Crescent Martin Permian Basin Tyler Deep East Texas Gray Panhandle . Mason Concho Valley Upshur East Texas Grayson Texoma Matagorda Gulf Coast Upton Permian Basin 'Gregg East Texas Maverick Middle Rio Grande Uvalde Middle Rio Grande Ginmes Brazos Valley Medina Alamo State Val Verde Middle Rio Grande Guadalupe Alamo State Menard Concho Valley Van Zandt East Texas Hale South Plains Midland Permian Basin VictoriaGolden Crescent Hall Panhandle " Milam Central Texas Walker Gulf Coast \ Hamilton Central Texas Mills Central Texas WallerGulf Coast ' Hansford Panhandle Mitchell West Central Texas Ward Permian Basin Hardeman North Texas Montague North Texas Washington Brazod Valley Hardin South,East Texas MontgomeryGulf Coast Webb South Texas I Harri5 Gulf Coast MoorePanhandle Wharton Gulf Coast' Harrison East Texas Morris North East Texas. so! Wheeler .Panhandle HartleyPanhandle Motley South Plains Wichita North Texas askell West Central Texas Nacogdoches Deep East Texas Witbarger North Texas ays Capital Navarro North Central Texas Willacy Lower Rio Grande Valley Hemphill Panhandle Newton Deep East Texas Williamson Capital Henderson East Texas Nolan West Central Texas Wilson Alamo State H \dalgo Lower Rio Grande Nueces Coastal Bend Winkler Permian Basin HT Heart of Texas , Ochiltree Panhandle Wise North Central Texas Hock ley South Plaini Oldham Panhandle Wood East Texas Hood NOrth Central Texas Orange South East Texas Yoakum SoL0h Plains '-' Hopkins North East Texas Palo Pinto North Central Texas young --iNorth texas Houston Deep East Texas. Panola East Texas Zapata South Thxas HOward Permian Basin Parker North Central Texas Zavala Middle Rio Grande Hudspeth =Upper Rio Grande Parmer Panhandle ... , Hunt North Central Texas Pecos Permian Basin Hutchinson Panhandle Polk Deep East Texas 'Hon Concho Valley Potter Panhandle Jack , North Texas Presidio Upper Rio Grande Jackson, Golden Crescent Rain's East Texas Jasper!Deep East Texas . RandallPanhandle Jeff Davis Upper Rio Grande Reagan Concho Valley Jefferson South East Texas Real Middle Rio Grande Jim Hogg South Texas Red River North East Texas ! Jim Wells Coastal Bend Reeves Permian Basin Johnson ,North Central Texas Refugio Coastal Bend 'Jones West Central Texas Roberts Panhandle . Karnes Alamo State '. Robertson Brazos Valley. Kaufman North Central Texas Rockwall North Central Texas Kendall Alamo State Runnels Kest Central Texas Ken edy Coastal Bend Rusk East Texas Kent West Central Texas Sabine Deep East Texas Kerr Alamo State San AugustineDeep East Texas Kimble Concho Valley San Jacinto Deep East Texas

156 157 ,.. r...

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Number and Capacity of Licensed Child Care in 1975 by County, by State Planning Region

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157 f. A

Appendix c (11' : .

State Department of Public Welfare -

Nonprofit Commercial Nonprofit Commercial COUNTY CENTERS CAPACITY CENTERS CAPACITY HOMES CAPACITY 4 HOMES CAPACITY.

Anderson 3 111 _,c 6 Andrews 1 50 2 ' 49 Angelina 4 351 3 91- Aransas 1 6 Archer Armstrong Atascosa 2 60 3 45 1 6 Austin '10 Bailey 2 65 - Bandera - 1 20 Bastrop 3 82 3 64 1 6 Baylor 1 20 1. 10 Bee -3 , 130 4 67 1 13611 '4 299 13 421 41 245 Sonar 87 5,289 68 3.720 42 144 115 501 Blanco 1 15 Borden , Bosque 1 45 Bowie 1 170 9 385 _ 1, 6 Brazoria 6 229 12 565 - '27 162 Brazos 2 76 12 491 3 11 Brewster ' 2 70 ;."- ...''' 3 18 Briscoe _ 6!-,--. _ Brooks 1 30 2._. ...._ Brown 2 105 7 215 _ 4 24 -Burleson 1 15 3 *it18 Burnet 1 40 3 68 Caldwell .1 40 2 12%. Calhoun 1 .38 4 72 2 12.7' Callahan ._ 3 18 Cameron 14 . 11 609 355, 8 42 Camp -- 2 12 Carson _ Cass 4 60 2 12 Castro .. Chambers 1 10 _ 1, 6 Cherokee 1 . 34 5 86 12 . 70 - Children . . 1 20 Clay 1 20 1 10 Cochran _ ...... Coke 1' 6 Coleman . 2 65 3 '69 1 6 Collin 4 229 16 810 5 .30 Collingsworth 1 30 . 3 18 Colorado 9 54 \ Comal 1 33 3 146 ' 2), 10 Comanche 2 80 1 ,,. 10* ,2 '12 _ . Conch° ..... Cooke 3 180 6 115 -:- 4 21 Coryell 1 - 6 5 3 73 , 8 / 48 1 , COW. ...._ _ Cra4,1 Crockett Crosby 6 Culberson . Dallam 1 30 2 30 Dallas 158 3,106 249 6,584 14 41' .247 1.0696 Dawson 2 85 3 33 . Deaf Smith 1 45 1 2Q 3 Delta 2 22- 2 9 Denton 434 12 ..504 . 24 108 De Witt 1 25 6 36 Dickens 1 6 Dimmitt 1 115 ' Donley

1 159 Appendix C (1) (Cont).. t Licensed Child Care Faclittres by County State Department of Public Welfare _ :rE '-3'.'7"---2, . Nonprofit .71,.k.,-q_ 1 0,1,1HO'.'ES Commercial Nonprofit Commercial... COUNTY CENTERS CAPACITY CENTERS CAPACITY HOMES CAPACITY HOMES CAPACITYv Duval Eastland 1 35 20 2 12 Ector 10 697 20" .450 Edwards 11 63 , Ellis 1 60 8 305 26 El Paso - 37 146 1.922 19 940 40 Erath 198 3 69 5 21 Falls 3 140 2 64 1 6 Fannin 1 60 1 20 3 Fayette 18 Fisher Floyd Foard Fort Bend 2 79 319 7 Franklin 16 2 12 Freestone 2 40 Frja 2 90 1 29 1 Gaines = 6 55 3 30 2 10 Galveston 15 1.125 36 1.142 23 Garza 135 Gillespie 2 60 2 30 6 29 Glasscock Goliad Gonzales 2 56 Gray 1 65 2 75 5 30 Grayson 3 78 15 499 15 76 Gregg 8 377 19 503 Grimes 10 52

Guadalupe 1 73 3 70 3 14 Hale 3 238 5 133 Hall 6 36 1 10 2 Hamilton 11 Hansford 1 10 Hardeman 1 30 2 1$ 2 12 Hardin 7 137 Harris 140 9.679 403 3.439 181 '914 175 Harrison 980 2 132 . 5 __. Hartley 7 Haskell 1 12 1- 6 3 140 3 tiff Hemphill .1

. Henderson 2 65 2 12 Hidalgo 23 1,385 13 358 3 17. Hill 93- 5 84 9 Hockley 52 2 Hood 12 2 12 Hopkins 1 25 1 17 5. 30 Houston 2` 94 . Howard 3 275 2 r 60 4 Hudspeth . 22 Flynt 2 106 4 123 Hutchinson ry 2 9 2 138 1 "40 Irian, 10 Jack 1 30 , "Jackson .. 2 35 6 30 Jasper 4 1'100 'Jeff Davis Jefferson 18 .,979-' 37 1,03 14 Jim Hogg 69 No Wells 3 59 3 15 Johnson 4 219 6 155 .5 25, Jones 1 35 4, 4 24. Karnes 3 86 Kau's* 1 50 6 122 Kenflajk 15 87 1 39 7 33

160 159 e, Appendix C(1) (Cont.) id Care Faciffiles by Count

, State Department of Public Welfare ,Y DAY HO',;ES Nonprt Commercial , Nongrofit* Commercial COUNTY .CENTERS CAPACITY CENTERS CAPACITY HOMES CAPACITY HOMES CAPACITY Kenedy Kent Kerr 2, 55 3 74 13 Kimble 111 King ',Olney 1 30 Kleberg 2 170 1 20 6 28 Knox Lamar 4 127 4 87 2 12 Lamb . 5 30 Lampasas 1 15 1 15 2 12 La patio 44 Lavaca 2 35 3 18 Lee Leon Uberty 3 62 6 36 Umestone 2 45 1 6 Upscomb Uve Oak Uano 1' 20 1 13- ." Loving Lubbock 14 756 24 934 92 542 Lynn 1 60 12 McCulloch 1 20 2 25 2 12 McLennan 19 1.624 28 956 16 'McMullen 'Madison 1 20 Marion- 1 25 27 1 6' Martin 1 20 Mason Matagorda 4 151 2 40 5 30 Maverick 2 95 Medina 5 106 Mallard Midland a 597 8 188 23 103 Milam 2 95 '4 67 3 18 Mills 2 22 6 Mitchell 1 35 1 10 2 12 Montague 4 30 2 25 Montgomery 4 257 8 452 1 6 Moore 3 207 1 6 Mords 2 12 Motley Nacogdoches 3 , 394 2 90 Navarro 8 312 1 26 26 132 Newton Nolan 2 150' '3 60 Nueces 29 1,990 12 729 35 173 Ochiltree 2 60 0 3 18 Oldham , 7 Orange I 50 17 f 441 3 18 Palo Pinto 2 84 3 77 8 44 Panola 1 65 3 .,- 60 1 6 a. N._ Parker-. 2 .132 2 90: 1 Parmer Pecos 2 90 t 20, Polk 4 175 2 87- 4 24 Potter 10 920 -10 424 54 312 Presidio 1 50 , Rains e -" Randall 4 287 32 174 Reagan Real a./ Red River 1 27 2 12 , Reeves 2 49

160 Appendix C(1) (Cont.) State Department of Public Welfare 7-: --- 1 7.; Nonprofit Commercial Nonprofit .. Commercial COUNTY CENTERS CAPACITY CENTERS CAPACITY HOMES -:: = CAPACITY HOMES C)PACITY Refugio Roberts Robertson 1 1 10 Rockwall 4 193

Runnels 2 40 1 v 12 1 r: 6 Rusk 2 - 70 5 101 3 18 Sabine San Augustine San Jacinto ; San Patricio 4 204 4 118 135 4 20 San Saba 2 73 Schleicher 4 - Scurry 1 60 3 55 -1 6 Shackelford Shelby 1 37 Sherman 1 35 Smith 9 541. 825 13 Somervell Starr

Stephens 1- 30 3 42 . -4 24 Sterling Stonewall N, Sutton Swisher 1 60 1 14 2 9 Tarrant 57 4,017 loo. 6,337 21 105 177 852 Taylor a 524 12 414. 41 228 -Terrell Terry 1 45 8 88 3 18 Throckmorton

. 1 Titus as "1 10 1 6 Tom Green 9 424 15.` 567 19 106 Travis 67 4,663 114 4,321 145 620 .1 Trinity 1 50 --: Tyler 1 60 Upshur 3 75 3 _Upton 1 20

Uvalde 2 45 1 3 Val Verde 3 138 1 20 ,1 6 Van Zandt 4 123 2 12 Victoria 233 5 145 19 105 Walker. 102 9 233 3 18 , Waller 2 75 1 6 .Ward 1 28 , 1 9 Washington 2 53 6 .P3 Webb 11 1 442 85 1 6 Wharton 1 80 75 2 12 Wheeler / 7 401 661 16, .96 Wilharger 3 165 4 1 20 3 18 Willacy 4 215 1-7., 10 6 54 Williamson 3 130 425 11 66 Wilson 2 73 '1 12 4 19 Winkler 18 Wise 1 20 1 43 3 15 Wood 2 43 3 18 YoakOm Young 2 75 25 1 . 6 Zapata 2 60 Zava)a 4 154 04 Total , 53,531 1,683 47,943 287' 1,339 1,850 9,496

162 t ,Chifd Care AppOildik-c.(2) . , , State DePartmerit of Public Welfare , .. ., . Sta3- , *. , . , _.,.,..-..., -(y,.E.,:.' .. Ptanorng Nonprofit: -. Commercial ,Nonprofit Commercial . .sts.on .., CENTERS CAPACITY -- CENTERS CAPACITY HOMES CAPACITY HOMES CAPACITY- . . Alin° '..' 102 5,819 91 4.291 42 144;- 142 631 Brazos Valley 3 106 17 589 -- 12 -. 62 Capital 80 5,130 133 4,979 _._ 159 704 Central Texas 10 547 23 598 = _ 55' 329 Coastal Bend 42 2,583 21 934 29 135. 52 258 Concho Valley 10 444 17 592 '22 124 Deep East Texas 16' 1,151 11 368 4 24 East Texas . 27 1.355 72 2,043 53 287o Golden Crescent 5 271". 16 368 - 36 201 Gulf Coast '17 174 11,702 484 6,412 . 181 914 270 , 1,545 Heart of Texas 25 ., 1,902 , 39 1,189 .,-; 27 "...- 145 Lower Rio Grande 41 2,209 25 723": , 17 93:- Middle Rio Grande 12. 576 . 3 66: 2 9:. North Central 248 8,771 415 15,438 35 146 549 . 2,570 .` North East Texas 8 453 - 23 608 19* .:-: 111', ... . North Texas 19 741 40 1,019 . 22.".' 132 "- Panhandle . 24 1.625 23 . 910 -- 107 :- 603 ., Permian Basin 32 1.957 43 906 41 ' 204 4 _South East Texas 19 1.0290, . , _61 1.986 17 AT .. South Plains. 22 1.204: , - , 37 -. 1.155 112 , 662 South -Texas 13 .. 1 502 85 1 fi Texonia . 7 318- -" 22 634t . 22 .115 Upper Rio Grande ' .. 37 - 22 1.922 1.060 43 .'"37186.2 West Central Texas 23 . 1:.159,' 37 -- 919 66 .5 , 4 Total 999 63,476 1,676 47,871 287 1.339 . 1,850 9,496 . ". . ,...... _ . . - .

162 163 'S

Abuse, see Child abuse, Drug abuse Battered children, see Child abuse and Administrators, see National Accidents, see Safety neglect Association of Child Care Centers, 3;1,8,14, 40, 44, 52, 55, 56, Action for Children's Television, 84 Bilingual, 28, 62, 63, 66, 67, 76, 92,- program, 62, 65-66, 145, 147, 149, 151, 57, 73 75, 78,86, 87, 89, 96, 100, 104, Adopti9n, 53, 56,58, 59, 61, 83,86, 87, 153 111-115,136, 142, 158- 105, 139, 142 , Comprehensive sery 7, 8, 28, Birth, 3, 9;10, 34, 37, 41:69, 71, 87, 88, Advocacy, 84, 85,86, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 29, 76, 77 102,4;04,1Q6, certificate,141., defects, 96,97, 99, 103, 104, 106 Forums, 91, 96 F..1,05, premature, 104 Industry, 111-115 Aid to Families with Dependent Children Birth control, see Family planning Infants, 7, 8, 9, 68, 112, 113,114,-11 (AFDC), 19, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59; Lsicetisin pad-standards, 53, 55;:- 60, 61, 65, 145, 147, i49, 151, 153 Blind, ?2-24, 87, 103,105, 141, Texas; School for, 63 .' 56, 57, 58, 79, 100, 136042_. American Academy of Pediatrics, Texas See also Deaf-Blind Project; Texas for the retarded, 48,`49, 56; 95,135 Chapter, 84 State Commission for; Vision Workers, see Texas Association of ..American Association See also Training for child care cifUniversity B'nait -"nth Women, 86-87 Women, Texas Division, 84 Workers; Family day homes Business, 3,111, loans, 75, 78 American Diabetes Association, North Child Development Associate Program, Callier Center for Communication ti1-12, Consortium repr'esentative, and South Texas Affiliates,.84 . Disorders, see University of Texasat n- .122, teacher edudator fOr, 122 --- American Lung Association of Texas, Dallas . 84-85 . Child growth and development, 3, 5,10,'" . Center for Multiple Handicapped 12, 14, 28, 30, 37, 44, 73, 76, 77, 79, 83, American MeclicalAssbciation, 10 Children, 87 86, 87, 88, 92, 93, 99, 100, 103, 105, See also TexasMedical 107, 112, 113, 114, 115, 11.9, 121, 136 .. Association Cerebial Palsy, See United Cerebrarj--" ' Palsy of Texas, . Child Nutrition Act, 20, 36, 7 -73, American Psychiatric Association,. Texas Distri-Branch, 85 Certification, 64;55 child sUdji.ert, 53, 54, 55,142 See also Credential American Red Cross, 10, Texas Child Wilifire League; Texas Agencies Chapters, 85 Child abuse and neglect; 10, 49, 53,.54, 87;1'39 58, 59, 61, 75, 7, 86, 87,,91, 104,107 American Society for Psycho- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)in Prophylaxis in Obstetrics, 85 Childbirth Education Association, see the SoUthwest, 87 International Association for Gifted Education, 85-86 Church Women United of Texas; t7 Child care, 3, 8, 11, 12,14,19, 20A, ASsociation unior Leagues, 86 Cognitive (intellectual) growl(i, 5, 28,29, 3(4-31, 53, 54, 56,57,60,61, 83, 84,86, 67, 76, 92, 113, 114 Associations, see Texas Associations 87, 90, 91, 94, 95, 96,99;100, 104,105, See also Child growth and ;Babies, see Infants 107, 125, 136, 142 deAelopment; Lanpiage -development Baptist General Convention of Texas, 86

. . 164- 163

1 S 3 - Comminication skill's, 49, 50, 70, 77,104.Drubs ,0 60 84 87 1.19 ace tional children 66 69 70 71 97 % 106...),,,,;,,, EarlyChildhood Deyelopment. 114, 115.141 CommUnity, 3, 5, 7- 10,13, 21, 27- 28.34, , Interagency Committee on, 13-14 "See also Education of the handicapped Act; Handicaps; Mental 38.48, 49,65,69, 73, 79, 85;'87, 88,90, -Early Childhood Development Olviiion ... - .retardation; Special edutation 91, 93, 95, 96, 105, 107, 120..134, 1 (Office).3. 5-14, 21, 27, 28, 30, 31:50, . 13%146. . sa. 94% 100.12123,125 . Family and Child Sialistjos (FACS),see Information system . CqmmunityA'ctioh A gencigs, 8, 2728, _Early childhood education, 8, 11; 12, 65, 29, 30-01;44, 122,123 - 70,83; 87,92, 93, 94, 97, 99, Advisory Family day homes, 8,52,55,57. 78.46, COmmipity Assistaoce Project,6-8 Council on, 64,137 136, 158-162 120 -121' . t See al.,6 Kindergarten . -Family education and involvement, 69, Community MHMR Centers, 28.47, Early Childhood Development Careers 75, 76, 79,88, 97, 99,106 .48-50. 69, 134:135. 145, 147, 149, 151. Project, 12-13 See also Parenthood, education for 153 See also Texas Committee on Early Family, emphasis on, 3, 5, 413.58, 65, 88, C9113thorlity Planning Councils, see Childhood bevelejiment Careers 98. 112:139, 141 . Undid Way Organizations Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis See also Texas Family Code Coordination of services, 7, 9.13, 21.30, and Treatment (EPSDT), 32,34, 39, 41, Family planning, 33,34,37, 40, 53,54, 60, 40, 69.70, 95,96, 124, 126, -2. 53, 60, 61. 144, 146.148, 150. 152 84, 92.,99,105 See also Social Security Act. Title See also Regional coordinators . Family Service Associatiop bf America., XIX . Councils, see Texas Councils Texas Agencies,98. 139-140 Easter Seal Society forCripple d` Federal programs, 1R-21, 27-29, 34, Councils of Governments, 9, 30.118-119, Children and Adults in Texas. 88 35.36, 39, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 65, , -121 - Econotnic Opportunity Act, 20, 27:84 66, 67, 6970, 71, 72,75;.75-79, l06 See also State planning regions I See also Head Start Eco'nOmic Financial aid, 19,,-53, 54, 55.57, 98,105 Cou nselirig;1,1. 24, 30, 34, 37, 38, 49, 50, Opportunity and CommUnity See also Aid to Families with 53, 60, 68, 69,70, 87, §8, 89, 95,101, Partnership Act 102, 104, 105, 119, 125;134.135, dependent Children; Child Support . Economic Opportunity Division (Office): :genetic. 49, 89 Food, 5;28, 35-36, 55:60,66, 67, 72-73, , 27, 28.29 Crippled.Children's services, 32. 33. 7$ -79. (KO, 107, 142 , 4243, 8Eo8, 103, 144, 146. 148.450, Education:/, 28, 63, 76, 79, 86, 95,96,99, -See also Nutrition '104, 106, 141 15? Food stamps, 53, 55 ,- See also Credential; Early. Crecten ti al, 11 childhoqd edulation; Special foster care, 53,54, 56,58, 59, 86, 87,105, ;'" See aho Child Development education; Trliriing,of handicapped 139 AssOci ate Program; Early Childhood - children Foster Grandparents, 75, 76 beyelopMent Careers Project; Education. publ '.- ....palm'. g of child care workers 31,44, 51, 53, 61, Foundation,§chool Program, 62, 63, 63, 90, 94, 95, 96;103; 104 64-65, 66, 67, 73 Cultural, 8, 28, 65, 66, 67, 76, 92 , 'Education for parenjhood, see' ..,See also Kindergarten 0 Dallas Senfices for Visually impaired. Parenthood, education for Governor, 90 3, 27, 28, 29,30, 33, 53, 64, Children, 87, 88 .. Education of the Handicapped Act,,69, 118, 119, 125, 141, 154 Day pare, see Child care 70 . Handicaps, 3,11, 23-24, 34, 35, 0, 50, 59 Deaf, 25; 69, 87, 95,105, Taxi.; School Education service centers, 62, Q3, 67, 69, 63, 64, 68, 69, 70, 71,83, 86, 94)97, fpr, 63, 70 . 70, 71, 137-138, 141 103, 104, 105, 112, 114.115, 137, 141' , See also Hearing is multiple, 87, 141 Educational organizations, 83, 84, 85-86; Dekf-Blind Poject, 62, 70, 145, 147, 149, See-also Blind; Crippled children's 80,91, 92, 93, 94, 95,96, 97!99,106 "services; Deaf; Education of the 451..153 , Elementary and Secondary Education Handicapped Act'. Exceptional Delta Kappa Gamma; Honor Society for Act, 2p, 65, 66, 67, 70 Children; Mental retardation; Bpepial Women Educators, 88 Emotional development,29, 103, 112, edu,cation;Training of handicapped Dehtal,7, 8, 28,33,34, 35, 39-40, 61); 66, 113,114 children 67, 98, 103, 127 See also Child growth and Head Start, 11, 20, 21,26, 27, 28-29, Sedalso Early and peribdip development 55, 67, 7,5, 76, 78, 89, 100, 101, 122, §creen in g, Diagnosis and treatment Emotional problems, 3,48, 49, 50, 68, 70, Texas programs, 123-125, statistics, Program 4 . 144, 146, 148, 150, 152 71, 88, 96 4 Disease, 33, 34, 39, 40-41, 43, 44, 54,84, Head Start, Economic Opporfunity and 85.89, 90, 98,101 Emplbyment, 27, 28, 30, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 73, 78, 88, 106, 119. 135 Community Partnership Act, 27/29, ',See aisoTuberculosis: 76, 77, 78 ,immunization English language, 64, 65,66,92,103 Head Staft RegionalTraining Officers,: octors,see Physicians 4 See also Bilingual; Spanish , . . 125, 'Ortid abuse, 3, 27-28,.30; 31, 88, 894134

-164.- 165' . - Health case sorvices, 3. 5. 7. 8. 11. 14. 21, League of Women Volefs of Texas. 89 National Assoc AOn of Child Care. 28. n32-44. 68,84, 87;88.97.100, . 102. 103, 105, 125, 127. 128 Ledning disabilities, 50,93, 70,-84,93, LAdministrator198 96.97, i87 _ Seq also Maternal and Child; Nation0 Association Of Social Workers, I mmdniialton, Legal, ktion. 53, 5:5, 56.58, 59,77, aid, Inc., texas chapter. 98791 Health education, 8, 10,11, 34, 40.44.84, 105, rights of.children, 87, 91,96. 'National CounO4 of Jewish Women, 91, 89,107 services. *.s5, 96 , ..96 Le,gislation 19, Health orgawations, 84.-85. 88. 89.90. 20.28, 41, 54, 59.64,86, Nurses, 8.34, 38:40, 85;89,. 100; 1p1, 105, 92, 94,: 99-100. 103, 1(14 - 90.94, 95,96. 97, 100, 101 .10t. 104. 1.14% 128 106 See alsc Texas Leilife for Nigses: Health Plaiining Act, 20. . See also Education of the Licehsed Vocational Nursei" of Texas;

Health' Service Areak 32, 33 Flankricapped Act:Eleniiiiiary and and Texas Nurses Association , Secondary Education Act; Laws: Hearing, 25, 6246 70.104, 165 Nutrition, 7,8. 10, 11, 14.30, 34, 3536, See also Deat-Vision Social Security-Act; Health Planning Act; Head Start, Economic.. :07-38. 47, 68, 72, 73, 79, 84. 89, 107, -113 Home economics, hbenemaking, 12, 37, Opportunity and Community 63, 73. 83. 99. 106 Pinership Act Joe OW- Child Nutrition Act; Food Organizati6ns, see specifit types of Hospitals, 8, 10, 24, 33, 35.36, 37, 42, 48. 'Leukemia Society of Amenca, 89 53,60, 68.76. 88,89.49-100, 102, 103, organizations, i.e. Educationil:' LicensedVocational Nurses Association 105, 111, 112, 113:114, mental,see Health, Physicians, Public-service, of Texas. 89 State hospitals for the mentally ill Religious; Social services 4 Housing; 20, 27.28, 30, 54;79.87 Licensing;see Child care PKU (Phenylketortuna) Screening,21, Low Income, 27, 29, 30, 35, 38, 40, 53, 54, 33, 37 Human 'development. State Centers for, 55, 60. 63. 66. 65. 72. 76. 78. 79.90. 46. 47. 49. 135.145, 1470.49. 151,153 Parent, involvement, 21, 28. 29.4, 65. 100.111 66,67.69, 75, 76, 77.91, 92, 96, 100,- Human Service Delivery viviSion, 27-28, See also PtIverty 104, 112, 113, 114. 115 !!''' 125-126 March of Dimesjol'exas. Parenthobd, eduCation for, 7,8..9-11, 14, Illness, see Disease . , Maternal and Ctiild Health ierv. 30, 34,38, 49,63,69, 73, 75, 76, 79,84, Immunization, 34, 40-41. 44.47. 73,-64, 2032, 33.34 -39, 40,14, 1Q1, 127. 144, ` 89, 92.94.96, 97. 99, 100, 106,107, 89,99. 102, 107. 127, 1,42, 144, 146, 146, 148, 150, 152 audiovisual course, II, county 148, 150,1'52 projects in, 6, 10-11, 1:1 - Medicaid. 19;i39, 53, 54, 59,60 Industry, 3.109415 'See also Counseling; Pierre the Medical services. 8, 24, 25, 28,30, 34, 35, Texas Pelican Infants, 9- 11,14, 34, 35, 37:41, 46.'55, 69, ;42, 43-44, 47, 53, 60, 66, 67, 70, 71 <77 84, 85, 87, 89: 93, 99,102, 105, day 87, 89,99, 100,113 Parentinproblems, 58, 59, 61.91,107 care, see Child care See also Early and Periodic See alsq Child abuse and neglect; See also Women, Infants, and Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment; Parefits Anorimotis Children Program; PKU Scredning Medicaid Parents Anonymous, 41 . . Information and referral, a, 11, 60,71, 84, Mental health, 31,33, 47, 48, 50. 51,54, Parents, absent, 53, 56, single. 3, 89, 95, 98, 104, 105, 140 83, 94. 100, 103, 105, 135 9, 83, 81, 91, 105,,teenage, 3, 7, 9, 11, Information "'stem, 9. See also'Community MHMR 37, 79 Centers; State hospitals; Texas Institutions, 40, 44, 54, 55, 56; 73:76, 78 ParentS-WithoutFartners,91 Association for; Texas Department of . . interagency/Task Force on Youth Care Pediatrics, 8 ;100. Mental illness, 48, 50, 94,130. 134. 135 and RettOilitation, 9,119 See also American Academ9 of; Mental retardation, 3, 33, 37, 47, 48, 49. Inteinational Childbirth Education Texas Pediatric Society 50, 51, 56, 59,63.76, 83, 88, 95, 97, Association, 88 105.132.134, 135 Physical (motod development, 5,11, 28, 65, 67, 76, 92, 94, 112, 114 Junior Leagues, see Alsociation of See also Community hiltiMR , See also Child growth and Centers; State schools; Texas Kindergarten, 62,63, 54-85. 66, 67, 73,.76, development 87, 92,1k6, 97, 99.137, 145, 147, 149, Department Of Mental Health and Physicians, 34, 37.38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 53, 151,153 Migrant, 8, 63, 73, 102, Kindergarten 60, 61, 71, 84, 85, 103, 164 ' Program, 62, 6§, 145, 147, 149, 151; La Leche League of Texas, 88 . " 153, PrekindergarteriProgram,62, 67, Physicians' organliations, 84, 93, 95, 99, Language developerient, 65, 66, 67.,70, 145, 147, 149, 151, 153 100, 101, 102 . 183, 104, 11,2, delay, 105 See alsoq'exas Migrant Council Pierre the Texas Pelican, 6,10, 94,100 Caws, 19-21, 37,40, 43, 47, 53, 55,56,58, Multiple Handicapped Children, see PI aceme rit,',re Adoption 61. 65, 66, 69;13, 100, 1021104: Center for; Handicaps 141-142 . . . Planned Perenthood-WorldPopulaiion, See also Legislation; Texas Muscular Dystrophy Associatidhl'Inc., 90 Texas Affiliates, 92 Educatioh Code; Texas Family Code; Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes

'166 165 , . Platined parenthood. see Family Screening, 8.30, 33, 34.35, 37.38, 39.41, State schools for the mentally retarded, planning. 49, 84, 86.90, 101. 103. 106. 112. 114 46, 47. 48. 76. and outreach programs, Playgrounds. 4,1 12.113, 114.115 See also Early and Periodic IP 132-134. statistics, 145. 147, 149. 151. Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment; 153 ' Poverty. 8,19, 27, 30, 31, 40. 76, 84. PKU Statistics, children under 6 served by Preschool Program for Children with a Sickle Cell Anemia Association of selected state programs. 143-153, Hearing Loss, 63.69. 145:147. 149. Texas. 92 licensed child care facilities. 158-162 151,153 Social Security Act. 19.53 See also Information system Pregnandy, 31, 34. 36 Title IV (A,B.C,D),-19, 54,55, 57. 56, Teacliers,8, 11. 12,40. 0.65.66, 67, 71, Pregnant (exibectant)' Mothers. 7, 30.35, 59,61,65 73, 76.86.92r 93, 97.99. 104. 106 36,55;stodents. 68,69., parents. 85.88 Title V.19. 20. 34. 3S. 37; 38, 40 teacher-pupil ratio, 64.68 Prenatal care, 7,8. 4, 34, 35, 79.86. 87. Title XIX; 19. 30.39. 53, 64, 59.00 See also Educational .89.99 Title XX, 20, 21, 39, 13.54, 56, 57, 58, Organizations: Training, Staff 59.60, 61 Development; Training of child care Preventive services. 13. 23, 24, 28, 31,34. Social development. 5,28, 38, 50, 71. 76. workers; Texas State Teachers 35, 37, 38.43,48, 50.53, 54. 77.85,89. . 88. 113, 114 Association 91 .94. 95. 103:104. 107 119 See also Child growth and Television, 11. 84..89,92 Primary Prevention PrOtect..11 development Texas Academy'of Family Physicians, 93 Psychiatric seryices: 49, 50, 85. 103. 105 Social services:7. St 13:20, 53, 54, 56, 57. Texas Association for Childhood Psychological services. 36. 71. 100.103. 58, 59.60, 61 87, 88, 95. 103. 104. 105, Education. 93,122 105` 136 - See also Adoption; Aid to Families Texas Association for Children with Psychologists. 102.106 with Dependent Children; Child care; Learning Disabilities, 93 Public service organizations. 89.99. Counseling. Foster care. Family Texas Association for the Education of 101-102 103. 106-107 planning Gifted Children, 94 Publications. 7 12, 14, 20, 25.31 44, 51,,, Social services organizations, 87,88, 91, Texas Association for the Education of 61 71, 73, 83.84,, 85,86, 87. 88. 89. 90, 92, 98,105 Young Children, 94,122 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98. 101. 102, 104," Social workers, 34. 59: 71, 87, 90- 91,104, 105,141 Texas Association for Health. Physical 106- Education and Recreation. 94 Recreation, 51. 71, 78, 87, 88. 94 See also National Association of Texas Association for Mental Health, 10. - See also Playgrounds Southwest Educational Develop-ment 94 Red Cross, see American Red Cross Laboratory, 92- Texas Association for Retarded. Citiien% Regional coordinators.6. 8-9. 121 Spanish:10, 61, 65.66, 92. 103 95 See also Bilingual; English -,Regional Day School Program, 69-70 Texas Association for Services to language Regional offices; fedefal. 20. 28. 2% Children. 95 -Special edutatiOn (Plan A and Plan B), 67, 76, 78;- state, 21, see Texas Texas Association of Child Care 21, 47, 49.62, 63.68, 69170, 71. 134, Departmen t.of Health Resources; Workers, Inc.. 95 Texai, State Departinent of Public statistics,-145. 147. 149. 151. 15.1- Welfare See also Handicaps Texas Association of the Deaf. 95, See also Councils oil Goornments, Speech, 38-39, 70104:105, 106 Texas Association of Obstetricians and Education service centers: State See also Communication skills. Gynecologists. 95 e -panning-regions . Hearing Texas Association of Paraprofessionals, Regional Resource Center:for . State Advisory Committee on Child Care 122 Handicapped Children, 71 s on Child Facilities, 56:136 Texas ASsociation of School 'Abuse and Neglect. 75. 77 , State Bar of Texas. 92, 141 Administrators, 95 'Religibus organizations. 83.86,c, 91, TeZas Association of School Boards, 96 96,107 State Commission for the Blind, see Texas, State Commission Texas Chiropractic Association,,06 13esearch, 9.-47, 50;84. 87, 88, 89,90, 9}, Stategipartment of Public Welfare, see 92, 96, 98,99. 100. 102, 103, 104. 105, Texas Child Care 76, 91, 96,122 Texas, State Department of fos - Texas Civil Liberties Union, 96 State hoS"isitals foithe mentally ill; 46, 47, Fietardation.sefrivIental retardation 48. 49, and outreach programs, Texas COalition for Children. 122 Rio Grande State Center, 49. 135-136 130-131, statistiCs. 145, 147. 149,151, Texas College and University System, Safety, 58, 85. 101. 102. 103.106 - 153 Coordinating Board..12, 13, 122, 127 State Rtianning regions. 28. 30, 118, 125.- School districts, 7, 8. 11, 28;36. 41,48, Texas Commission on Services to , . 152-163. 1 54-15§, 162 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71: 72, 75, 76, Children and Youth. 28, 30.05, 106. 1i3.141 i2q-127 Texas Committee on Early Childhood Texas-NurseS Association : 101 Tuberculoses, 32, 34. 39. 41-42. 84, 144; Development Careers. 13,121 -123 Texas Opthalmological,Association, 101 146, 148. 150. 152 texas Conference of Churches. 96 See also Disease Texas Optometric Association, 101 Texas Congress of Parents and United Cerebral Palsy of Texas, I nc.,104 Teachers (Texas PTA). 97 Texas C5ptometric Association Auxiliary, 1101-102 United States, Community Services', Texas Council for Early Childhood Adminitration, 20, 29 texasOrthopedic Association, 42 'Education. 97 See also Head Start. Economic Texas Council for Exceptoonal Children. Texas OtolaryngologitalAssociation, Opportunity and Community 102 - 97 .I Partnership Act Texas Council on Family Relations. 98 Texas Pediatric Society. 10:84. 102 United States Congress, 19,20 Texas-Cystic Fibrosis Chapters, 98 Texas Psychological Association. 102 United States Departrnent of Texas Public Health Agriculture. 20,35, 36.55, 72, 73, Texas Department of Association, 103 75, 78, 79 . Community Affairs. 5-14, 26-31.50. Texas Rehabilitation Commission, 47, Health, Education and Welfare,- 54.75, 83, 94, 100; 120-127. statistics. 54,57, 63, 119, 127 It 14,20:28. 29, 53, 65, 67. 71. 75. 76. 144. 146.148.150.152 Texas Safety Association, 103 1Q0, 106. 122, 123, 125 Health Resources, 10. 13. 20. Z1. 30, Labor, 20, 28 32- 44.47, 53, 54, 55. 60. 63, 89, 98.119. Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled, Children. 103 loc-1 departments, 128-130, regional United Way Organizations and Texas.- offices. 32. 34, 40, 41.127, statistics, Texas Society for the Prevention of United Community Services, 105.140 144,146, 148, 150.152 Blindness. 103 iveriity of Texas at Dallas, Callier Mental Health and Mental Texas Societrof Child Psychiatry. 103 Center for Communication Disorders. Retardation, 13, 23. 46-51. 54. 63. 83. 105-106 119, 127. statistics. 145.147,149, 151, Texas Speech and Hearing Association, 153 104 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes, 20. 24. 37, 40.41, 42. 43. 48, 50, 55.56, 58, See also State hospitals: State Texas, State Commission for the Blind. 141-142 sc s: Community MHMR centers 22-24, 47, 54, 57,127, district offices, ,blic Welfare. see Texas, State 119-120. statistics, 144.146. 148. 1.50. Vision, 8, 23.24, 34.38, 39 67, 70, 87. partment of 152 101. 102, 103, 105. 106. 114 See also Blind: Hearing exas Dental Association, 98 Texas. State Departnient of Public Visually Handicapped Children's.. Texas Dermatological Society. 99 Welfare. 7, 12, 13, 20, 30, 34.39, 40, 47. 52.61 6383, 91. 96. 119, 122027, 142, Program, 22, 23, 24. 144.146. 148, 150. TeZas Education Agency, 11. 12. 13.23. 152 7 regional offices. 52, 54, 56. 61, 40, 47. 54. 62-73. 76. 87. 97, 99.104. 136-137. statistics, 145.147, 149, 151, Vocational Homemaking Teachers 106. 119, 122. 127,137-138, statistics. 153,156-162 Association of Texas, 106,122 145, 147,149. 151. 153 Texas State Teachers Association, 99. Volunteers. 61:76, 83, gc5, 86, 87, 91, Texas Education Code, 64, 65. 66,68,4. . 104,122 101,106 141 . Texas United Community Servicee.see Volunteers for Vision, I nc..101 ,106 Texas Elementary. Kindergarten and United Way Organizations Nursery Educators, 99. 122 Woman's Auxiliary to the Texas Medical -Texas Women's Political Caucus, 104 Association. 106:107 Texas Elementary Principals and 0 Supervisors Association,,99, 122 Trairyng and technical assistance,7, 8, Women, Infants and Children Program 28, 30, 75, 77, 96. 136 (WIC), 35-36, 37, 55, 89-, Texas Family Code, 53, 92, 93 Training, staff devblopment, 9. 34, 38,48, Work Incentive Program (WIN), 20. 56,. Texas Federation of Women's Clubs. 99 50, 60-61. 63. 64, 66.67, 69, 70, 87.92, 57 Texas Home Economics Association, 99, 112, 113, 114, 115 Young Women's Christian AssoCiation 122 Training for Child care workers, 8,11, in Texas (YWCA), 8,.107 -- " Texas Hospital ASsociation, 99 -100 12-13, 60- 61.63, 73, 83, 91, 92, 95,99 Youth,8:9,28,.34, 35,63, 73, 79,84, 97, s' TeXas League for Nursing, 100 See alsc; Child Development 106 . . Associate Program: Credential: .See also Interagelicy Task Force Texas Legislature. 13,19. 20, 21.23, 25. Texas Committee on Early Childhood *** on.YouthCare andRehabilitation: 27. 28,30, 33, 37, 40, 41,47, 53.56, 59, Development Careers 64, 79, 93, :126, 136,137, 141 Texas Commission on Services to Training of Handicapped Children, 38, Children and Texas Licensed,Child Care Association, 48. 49, 51, 70, 87, 88, 105, 134 100.122 90 Transportation, 7, 30,40, 43, 60, 104, 105 Texas Medical Association, 84,100 See also Woman's Auxiliary to Texas Migrant Council, Inc., 8, 54,67, 41, 1 , 100 a'

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170 Dolph Briscoe, Governor -Texas Department of Community Affairs Ben F fki)onakl Execi.me Dsencr Human Resources Branch Sarn Prim Deputy Ckrectx Early Childhood Develoment Division . 3eamete Watson. Drector

Emergency Telephone Informational Telephone Numbers: Child Abuse and Numbers Neglect. 1-800-292-2668 1-800-29275400 : Toll free, statewide hot linOf the Toll free, stet ide hot line of the Texas Regional Resource C er for State DO ent of Public Welfare for Handicapped Children, for use by usey anyon to report child abuse or parents, physicians, teachers, social neglect' workers and others wanting information about services for 1vit4ia941.-1914 (Dallas) handicapped ch)ldren. 1-512-226-3391 (San Antonio). Crisis (Ines, open 24 hours a day, of 1-800-292--9642 Parents Anonymous for use by parents Toiree, statewide telephone number who fear they are on the verge of of the Texas Department of abusing'their children. CommunityAffair-s. The- Dep inent's Early Childhood Developme 1-800-421.0353 . Division can assist community Parents Anonymous mainta' leaders, directofs of children's national 24-hour WATS line programs and others wanting Californialo.help'potentially information about howtommunities parents lOdate persons livin arby can meet the needs Of children who will heyor listen. under 6. 1-214-259-4704 (Irving) 1-214-231-6584 (Dallas, Richarison, Plano) 1-713-665-0385 (Houston) 1-915-544-0211 (Et Paso) Crisis hot lines to family oytreach clinics of the National Council of Jewish Women, for use by troubled families, including abusive parents. 171