| (a) Client eligibility. Only adopted children are eligible
for residential treatment services through the post-permanency services
program. To qualify, an adopted child:
(1) must be expected to return home and function in
the adoptive family within 12 months;
(2) must not be eligible for treatment in a state hospital
or state school; and
(3) must have an initial service level determination
of Specialized or Intense or if under the Texas Child-Centered Care
(T3C) System, must be placed and receiving a T3C Service Package other
than the T3C Basic Family Foster Family Home Service Package.
(b) Family treatment and progress towards reunification.
(1) The child's adoptive family must participate in
family treatment over the course of the child's stay in residential
treatment.
(2) Every three-month review of the child's service
plan must address the progress made towards reunifying the child with
the adoptive family.
(3) The contractor must begin planning for a child's
discharge from residential treatment services, and must carry out
the discharge within 60 days, if either of the following conditions
arises:
(A) the adoptive parents do not:
(i) maintain regular contact with the child;
(ii) participate in treatment; or
(iii) intend to let the child return home; or
(B) the child's functioning does not improve.
(c) Minimum service level or T3C Service Package.
(1) If the service level of an adopted child in residential
treatment services is reduced below the Specialized Service Level
or the child no longer meets the criteria for the Service Package
under which they were originally placed, the contractor must immediately
begin planning to:
(A) support the child's return to the adoptive home;
(B) refer the child and family to another facility
that can meet the child's needs; or
(C) help the family find other ways to pay for the
contractor's continuing care.
(2) The child's eligibility for DFPS-paid residential
treatment services ends 60 days after the effective date of the reduced
service level.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §700.1733 adopted to be effective December 1, 1994, 19 TexReg 8692; amended to be effective October 20, 1997, 22 TexReg 10152; amended to be effective March 1, 2004, 29 TexReg 1416; amended to be effective July 1, 2015, 40 TexReg 4220; amended to be effective January 19, 2017, 42 TexReg 84; amended to be effective December 22, 2024, 49 TexReg 10389 |
