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 F - TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Division 4 - PRE-SERVICE EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING
Section 749.861 - What are the pre-service experience requirements for caregivers?
Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025
(a) For caregivers providing care to children only receiving child-care services and/or programmatic services, there are no pre-service experience requirements.
(b) Before a caregiver can provide care to a child receiving treatment services, you must ensure that the caregiver has the experience to care for the child's treatment need. If a caregiver does not have the necessary experience, your child-placement management staff must prescribe a regimen of specific child-care experience that the caregiver must complete before you place a child with treatment needs in the caregiver's home, including a minimum of eight hours of observations of interactions with children receiving similar treatment services as the prospective caregiver would be providing.
(c) You must document the caregiver's experience and/or prescribed regimen in the home's record.
