TRAC -Transition Resource Action Center

Foster youth face unique challenges as they transition to adulthood. Many of them lack stable housing, employment opportunities, and essential life skills, which often lead to negative outcomes such as homelessness, unemployment, trafficking and incarceration. Since 2003, the Transition Resource Action Center (TRAC, for short) has provided a one-stop support center for transitional living services in North Texas for youth exiting foster and juvenile care and their homeless peers. TRAC is the only transition center in the 19 county North Texas Region 3 of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services that comprehensively addresses the needs of this population, working out of offices in Dallas and Fort Worth. TRACs safety-net approach enhances the provision of seamless, wrap-around, and transitional support services necessary for these youth to develop into self-sufficient young adults. TRACs goal is to increase the number of young people who have the necessary skills and...