Pressley Ridge Awarded Texas Community-Based Foster Care Contract For Deep East Region

On March 20, 2023, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) awarded Texas Family Care Network, a division of Pressley Ridge, the state’s third contract for community-based foster care for 2023. The contract, which begins on April 1, 2023, is for the 15-county Deep East area, which includes the metropolitan region of Beaumont-Port Arthur.

On February 22, 2023, DFPS also awarded two community-based care contracts to EMPOWER and 4Kids4Families. With these three new contracts, more than half the state is in a community-based care catchment area, representing about one-third of the . . .