TRAC-Transition Resource Action Center

Mission

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 16-24 years old 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. TRAC’s “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.

TRAC’s goal is to increase the number of young people who have the necessary skills and resources to transition to adulthood and, ultimately, successful independent living by empowering their progression to independence.

Annually, TRAC assists over 1200 of the most challenged, at-risk youth to make a life plan and acquire skills they will need to thrive on their own as they are reaching adulthood. TRAC services include experiential life skills training, coaching/case management, workforce and educational support, housing assistance, and crisis intervention services. The desired goal of TRAC’s comprehensive services is to have vulnerable youth secure safe, stable, and affordable housing, as well as obtain a livable wage job through employment and higher education, and to divert youth from homelessness, sex trafficking, crime and other negative outcomes.