Healthy Outcomes Through Prevention and Early Support

Healthy Outcomes through Prevention and Early Support

Healthy Outcomes through Prevention and Early Support (HOPES) is a flexible community grant that funds a wide variety of innovative initiatives and supports for families with children birth to 5 years old. Supports typically include home visiting services as well as other supports that build protective factors, such as parent support groups, maternal depression screening, early literacy promotion, case management and parent education. HOPES grants also include local collaborations with health care, faith-based, child welfare, early childhood education, and other child and family services organizations in the community.

Service Focus

Families with children birth to 5 years old who are considered at risk for abuse and neglect.

Map of Providers and Communities

Map of Texas, showing HOPES providers across the state.

* Denotes the county in which the organization is physically located.
‡ Denotes sites that received Helping through Intervention and Prevention funding in FY 2023 after the program was merged into HOPES.

Measures of Success

Children remain safe during services and within one to three years after services.
Increase in protective factors, such as family functioning and resiliency, social supports, and nurturing and attachment.

Program Data

Program start date:

2014

Target number of youth/families served annually, FY 2024:

9,207

Average number of youth/families served per month, FY 2023:

3,440

Counties served:

33 counties

Annual budget for community contracts:

$31,218,813

Total number of community grantees:

28 grantees 25 subgrantees

Average grantee budget:

$1,114,958

Success Story