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TITLE 26HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 749MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES
SUBCHAPTER TADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES THAT PROVIDE AN ASSESSMENT SERVICES PROGRAM
DIVISION 2ADMISSION
RULE §749.3831What are the requirements for approving a child's admission into my assessment services program?

(a) The person responsible for the assessment services program must review and approve in writing the determination that your program will be able to provide or obtain all assessment services the child appears to need at intake.

(b) The review, determination, and approval must be:

  (1) In writing, signed, and dated from the person responsible for the assessment services program; and

  (2) Completed prior to the admission of the child into your assessment services program.

(c) The determination on the appropriateness of the program to meet the child's assessment needs must be filed in the child's record if the child is admitted into your assessment services program.

(d) You must document in the child's record whether you are:

  (1) Only providing assessment services to the child; or

  (2) Also providing other services, such as transitional living services.

(e) You must document in the child's record the date of the child's admission into your assessment services program.


Source Note: The provisions of this §749.3831 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909

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