Texas Administrative Code
Title 40 - SOCIAL SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE
Part 19 - DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Chapter 700 - CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Subchapter M - SUBSTITUTE-CARE SERVICES
Division 1 - GENERAL
Section 700.1334 - What strategies does DFPS implement to reduce the number of incidents in which a child in its conservatorship runs away?
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) DFPS has established policy and protocols that guide caseworkers in providing support and information to kinship and other non-contracted caregivers of children in DFPS conservatorship to prevent and reduce the occurrence of runaway incidents. The protocols:
(b) DFPS contracts with residential child care providers include a provision that requires the providers to maintain policy and protocols to prevent and reduce the occurrence of runaway incidents by children in DFPS conservatorship that are placed in their operations and/or foster homes. The contracts require that the protocols:
(c) In this section, the following terms have the following meaning: