NO CHILD IN COMAL COUNTY SHOULD BE NEGLECTED OR
SUFFER FROM ABUSE OF ANY KIND.
No child in Comal County should have to leave his home because his parents didn’t protect him.
No Comal County child should have to leave her school and her friends because there aren’t enough foster homes in Comal county.
No child in Comal County should have to pack her belongings in garbage bags or feel embarrassed about her clothes, a lack of school supplies or her inability to participate in “normal” activities.
No child should experience these things, yet Child Protective Services is currently working with more than 300 Comal County children who are victims of abuse or neglect.
Most of these children now live in foster homes, kinship homes, or residential treatment centers because the courts determined they would be further harmed if they remained in their homes
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DID YOU KNOW…
In 2024, 63 children were removed from their Comal County homes due to abuse or neglect.
Because of the acute shortage of foster homes in Comal County, only 21% of these children were able to stay in Comal County while their parents worked to regain full custody. The remaining children had to move to other counties and cities in Texas.
In 2024, 1,555 allegations of abuse and neglect were reported in Comal County.
Of the 1,218 investigations that resulted from these allegations, 226 were validated.
56% of all Comal County children in foster care are under the age of 10.
In 2024, 26 Comal County children were adopted and another 22 were transferred to legal guardianship of relatives.
At the end of 2024, there were 27 children awaiting adoption.
Also in 2024, 126 families worked with CPS' Family Based Safety Services (FBSS) caseworkers to improve their parental protective capacity and avoid legal intervention which would have removed the 323 children in these families from their homes.
GOALS:
The Comal County Child Welfare Board is committed to supporting and providing for children in our county who are the victims of child abuse and neglect. Our principal objectives are to provide for children’s unmet needs to help them heal, and to focus our community’s attention on what is happening to children in Comal County. Each of our programs is designed to achieve these outcomes.