State Agency Programs and Services

PEI is the DFPS program that focuses on stopping bad outcomes before they happen. PEI helps families and communities prevent:

• Child abuse and neglect
• Juvenile delinquency
• Runaway youth
• Truancy

PEI contracts with community-based programs and agencies to provide a variety of services that help prevent abuse, neglect, delinquency, and truancy of Texas children.

Interested in finding a PEI program for fathers in your community or looking to become a PEI contractor? Find out more about the programs PEI provides:

• Fatherhood EFFECT programs provide parent education and resources to fathers. Beginning in FY20, Fatherhood EFFECT’s scope expanded to include community coalition and community level change efforts along with local organization improvements, increasing quality direct services targeted specifically at fathers and explicit inclusion and support of fathers across multiple programs.
• Healthy Outcomes through Prevention and Early Support (HOPES) is a community-based program started in FY14 providing child abuse and neglect prevention services that target families with children between zero to five years of age.
• Helping through Intervention and Prevention (HIP) is a free, voluntary program that provides targeted families with an extensive family assessment, home visitation that includes parent education, and basic needs support.
• Military Families and Veterans Pilot Prevention (MFVPP) Program provides parenting, education, counseling, and support services to:
  • Prevent child abuse and neglect in military communities;
  • Help military and veteran parents have more positive parental involvement in their children’s lives;
  • Improve the ability of these parents to give their children emotional, physical, and financial support; and
  • Build community coalitions focused on preventing child abuse and neglect.
• Texas Home Visiting (THV) is a free, voluntary program through which early childhood and health professionals regularly visit the homes of at-risk pregnant women or families with children under age six.
• Texas Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a free, voluntary program through which nurses regularly visit the homes of at-risk pregnant women or families with children under age two. Families start services with TNFP by their 28th week of pregnancy and can receive services until the child reaches two years of age.