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2 Document(s) [ Subject: Residential treatment centers ]

• Committee:

  House Child Welfare and Foster Care, Select, Interim, 78th R.S. (2003)

  Title:

  Interim Report

  Document type:

  Report

  Subjects:

  Adoption | Child abuse | Child Protective Services | Family and Protective Services, Texas Department of | Foster care | Residential treatment centers | Therapeutic wilderness programs |

  Library Call Number:

  L1836.78 C437

  Description:

  [256 pages  File size: 3,474 kb]

  Charges:

  1. Examine the current child welfare and foster care system in Texas, with an emphasis on the following: (1) Determine barriers to adoption, specific to minority children, in foster care. Determine activities that will increase the recruitment and retention of racial and ethnic minority families as foster care providers. (2) Evaluate means by which the state may promote substitute care with relatives of a child who is removed from the home by Child Protective Services. (3) Review the licensure requirements for and the performance of all types of foster care facilities, including residential treatment facilities, wilderness camps and emergency treatment centers. Assess the adequacy of communication and interaction between the licensing agency and other state agencies that place children within the foster care and Child Protective Care system. Explore other state's efforts that will promote "best practices" and identify program efficiencies with Texas child welfare system.

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• Committee:

  House Human Services, 70th R.S. (1987)

  Title:

  Interim report

  Document type:

  Report

  Subjects:

  Attorney General Child Support Division | Blind, Texas Commission for the | Children with disabilities | Education Agency, Texas | Health, Texas Department of | Human Services, Texas Department of | Job training programs | Medicaid | Medicaid Vendor Drug Program | Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Texas Department of | Prescription drugs | Rehabilitation Commission, Texas | Residential treatment centers | State agencies | State supported living centers | Welfare | Welfare reform | Welfare-to-work | Youth Commission, Texas |

  Library Call Number:

  L1836.70 h88

  Description:

  [42 pages  File size: 1,707 kb]

  Charges:

  1. To study the efficiency and economy of the regional boundaries of human service agencies. (Joint study with House Committee on Public Health).
  2. To study the feasibility of establishing a co-payment support assistance system based on ability to pay by parents of children in state supported residential care programs.
  3. To study and monitor federal welfare reforms and evaluate the impact of such programs on the state AFDC program and state finances.
  4. To study the Vendor Drug Program in the Department of Human Services.

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