About TYCCWA

What are TYCCWA's goals?

The Texas Youth and Child Care Worker Association was formed to improve the services available to children and youth through the professionalization of child and youth care workers. To accomplish this, the association:

• promotes the education, certification and professionalization of child and youth care workers in the state of Texas;
• conducts research in the field of child and youth care work;
• initiates and maintains educational programs and provides in-service and training conferences for child and youth care workers;
• disseminates information relevant to the needs of child and youth care workers;
• establishes and administers certification and/or licensure programs; and
• enters into cooperative memberships with other groups to promote the education, certification, and professionalization of youth and child care workers in the nation and around the world.

What is a Child or Youth Care Practitioner?

Child care concerns itself with the educational, the therapeutic, the developmental, and the remedial needs of children. It is concerned with the care, nurturing, management and guidance of any child from birth through adolescence, healthy or disabled, whose day is determined by child serving organizations, public or private, day or residential.

A child or youth care practitioner is anyone who has been employed by a professionally recognized agency for the purpose of child care as defined above, and who has been entrusted with the on-the-spot, hour-to-hour care and/or management of children or adolescents for a minimum of six months.