Who We Are
Social Empowerment Texas was created by Lauren Welch in January 2026 after years of experience working with social workers - as a foster and adoptive parent and professionally - through past work experience supporting the child welfare system - by supporting foster/adoptive and kinship families, social workers and aged out foster youth.
Over the years, Lauren started stepping into the lives and caseloads of social workers to find out - how can we make this better for the social worker, the foster family and the children in their homes?
Social Empowerment Texas was born out of a place of care for the system and those that are affected by it - and the enormous trickle effect that caring, encouraging and empowering social workers provides.
Our mission of supporting social workers is a critical way to not only support the mental health of social workers, coworkers and other CPS staff and supervisors but the mental health of the foster, adoptive and kinship families they support and the vulnerable children living in these foster, adoptive and kinship homes.
What We Do
SET provides programs in three different ways: relational, through appreciation and support events to groups and through support for the local child welfare system, as a whole. All programs provide a healthy, supportive and encouraging opportunity for child welfare social workers to remind them of the importance of their work, to continue to engage on some of the most important work for the most vulnerable children and to continue to give the families and children their best. The end goal of those relationships and activities is that social workers can resource and engage foster families, who continue to foster, lessening disruptions, increasing the number of foster homes available and lessening the trauma felt by children in care.
Details
| (720) 252-4959 | |
| laurenannewelch@gmail.com | |
| Lauren Welch | |
| Executive Director |
