| (a) You may verify a foster home to provide different
services as long as a child placement staff completes an assessment
of the home that includes a review of the following:
(1) The number, ages, and needs of children to be placed
in the home;
(2) The foster home's capacity to provide each different
service and supervise all children appropriately;
(3) The needs of any children currently in the home;
and
(4) The foster parents' experience and ability to provide
each service.
(b) The child placement staff must sign, date, and
document this assessment in the foster home record. The different
services permitted must be listed on the verification certificate.
(c) Child placement management staff must review and
approve the documentation prior to the placement of a child. You must
document the review and approval in the record.
(d) For each placement of a child into a home verified
to provide multiple types of services, a child placement staff must
ensure there will be no conflict of care. Examples of conflicts in
care are placements that:
(1) Place one child at serious risk for harm by another
child;
(2) Significantly compromise the care and supervision
of any child in care;
(3) Require a level of expertise by the foster parents
and/or caregivers that they do not possess; or
(4) Create an environment that is appropriately restrictive
for one child but inappropriate for another.
(e) A child needing treatment services may only be
placed in a foster home that is verified to provide the treatment
services needed by that child. If the treatment service needs of any
of the children in a foster home changes and the home is not verified
to provide that particular treatment service, the foster parent must
notify the child placement staff and a new assessment of the home
must be completed, signed, and dated by the child placement management
staff. If the foster home is not approved to provide the services
after the assessment, then the child must be moved to a placement
that can provide the needed services.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §749.2491 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; amended to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7522; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909 |
