Through the program, participants learn about:
• Character building and life skills;
• Making healthy choices and educating youth on positive lifestyle wellness practices
• Effectively dealing with bullying and peer pressure;
• Dealing with adversity and overcoming challenges;
• Understanding and respecting one another's differences; and
• Combating drug and alcohol abuse.
TCFC needs financial assistance so that it can present the program in more schools in North Texas.
Texas Cares for Children was created to address social inequality on a peer-to-peer level, through leadership development, community partnerships, and cultural training. Texas Cares for Children strives to bring life skills, values education, and leadership into schools; demonstrating the importance of setting personal and educational goals; teaching students how to stand up to negative peer pressure and turn it into positive peer pressure and establishing lifelong healthy practices. The initial program was developed through collaborative efforts with the National Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse, and won the endorsement of former President George Bush and then Secretary of Education, Lamar Alexander.
Texas Cares for Children's peer mentoring program empowers American youth to achieve their personal and professional goals, while providing a forum in which to express their opinions, talent, and intelligence, and instilling a spirit of community service through a variety of unique community-based programs. The idea is to help each participant develop and improve his or her capabilities through instruction and training, which in turn benefits the community as a whole. By sharing a platform about which an individual is passionate, each participant not only teaches, but learns.
TCFC needs financial assistance. With your support, TCFC will be able to present its program in more schools in North Texas. All support is greatly appreciated.
The Texas Cares for Children (TCFC) mission is deeply inclusive: to empower students through the provision of peer mentoring and education in leadership values. TCFC strives to create a more inclusive and equitable future, one classroom at a time. To effectuate this mission, TCFC stands for equity and justice in denouncing racism, intolerance, and exclusion by building core values and advancing those values for a positive environment of understanding and growth.
Organization name
Texas Cares For Children
Causes
Youth & Children, Education - K-12
Operating Budget
Less than $100,000
Counties Served
Wise, Tarrant, Somervell, Rockwall, Parker, Palo Pinto, Navarro, Montague, Kaufman, Johnson, Hunt, Hood, Grayson, Fannin, Erath, Ellis, Denton, Dallas, Cooke, Collin
BIPOC Serving
Hispanic or Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black or African American
Equity Statement
Equity Statement
Address
4637 North Versailles Avenue