Texas Administrative Code
Title 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Part 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
Chapter 749 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES
Subchapter D - REPORTS AND RECORD KEEPING
Division 5 - UNAUTHORIZED ABSENCES
Section 749.596 - What is an overall agency evaluation for unauthorized absences?
Universal Citation: 26 TX Admin Code § 749.596
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
(a) Every six months, you must conduct an overall agency evaluation for unauthorized absences that have occurred at your foster homes during that time period.
(b) The objectives of the evaluation are to:
(1) Develop and maintain a trauma informed
environment that supports positive and constructive behaviors by children in
care; and
(2) Ensure the overall
safety and well-being of children in care.
(c) The evaluation must include:
(1) The frequency and patterns of
unauthorized absences of children from your foster homes; and
(2) Specific trauma informed strategies to
reduce the number of unauthorized absences from your foster homes.
(d) You must maintain the results of each six-month overall agency evaluation for unauthorized absences for five years.
(e) You must make the results of each overall agency evaluation for unauthorized absences available to Licensing for review and reproduction, upon request.
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