Report Abuse or Neglect

If you feel your situation is a life-threatening emergency, please call 911 or your local law enforcement agency.

To report suspicions of abuse/neglect of children or abuse/neglect/exploitation of persons 65 years or older and adults with disabilities, please contact our Abuse Hotline toll free 1-800-252-5400, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This number is accessible from across the United States.

Abuse, neglect and exploitation are against the law in Texas, and so is failure to report it. If you suspect a child or a person 65 years or older and an adult with disabilities has been abused or mistreated, you are required to report it to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services or to a law enforcement agency. You are required to make a report immediately.

You may also file a report using our secure website:
https://www.txabusehotline.org

We cannot accept e-mail reports of suspected abuse or neglect.

Reports by People Who are Hearing Impaired, Speech Disabled

A person who is deaf, hard-of-hearing or speech-disabled and wishes to report abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a child or to report abuse, neglect or exploitation of the elderly or adult with disabilities, may use Relay Texas to contact the Abuse Hotline (Statewide Intake). Relay Texas can be accessed by dialing 711 or 1-800-735-2989. The caller uses a TTY to type conversations to a relay agent who then reads the typed conversation to a hearing person. The relay agent transmits the hearing person's spoken words by typing them back to the TTY user. Statewide Intake's phone number is 1-800-252-5400, or a report may be made by use of the Internet at https://www.txabusehotline.org/PublicMain.asp

How to Report Abuse, Neglect or Exploitation