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TITLE 26HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 749MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES
SUBCHAPTER CORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION
DIVISION 1PLANS AND POLICIES REQUIRED DURING THE APPLICATION PROCESS
RULE §749.111What must my placement policies include?

Your placement policy must include a description of how you will:

  (1) Ensure that your agency will not place a child before determining that foster care and/or adoption is appropriate for the child;

  (2) Match a child with a foster and/or adoptive home to ensure that the child's needs are met;

  (3) Make every effort to place siblings together and document in each child's record when it is necessary to separate siblings; and

  (4) Ensure contact between siblings is maintained when siblings are not placed together or document why contact is not appropriate for one or more of the siblings.
Source Note: The provisions of this §749.111 adopted to be effective January 1, 2017, 41 TexReg 9944; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909

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