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10 THINGS CPS WANTS YOU TO KNOW Jenny Hinson, Division Administrator for Permanency Child Protective Services DFPS. # 10. Purpose:

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  1. 10 THINGS CPS WANTS YOU TO KNOWJenny Hinson,Division Administrator for PermanencyChild Protective ServicesDFPS

  2. # 10 Purpose: • In Texas, the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), through its Child Protective Services (CPS) and child care licensing divisions, investigates allegations of child abuse and neglect, provides services to children and families, and monitors our state foster care system. CPS also manages community-based programs that prevent delinquency, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of Texas children. The Child Protective Services (CPS) staff is responsible for: • Providing services to children and families in their own homes; • Placing children in foster care; • Providing services to help youth in foster care make the transition to adulthood; and • Placing children in adoptive homes. For more information, please visit our website at: www.dfps.state.tx.us

  3. #9 The law on reporting abuse/neglect: State law requires any person who suspects abuse/neglect of a child to report to the abuse/neglect hotline : 1-800-252-5400 www.txabusehotline.org Failure to report suspected child abuse is a Class Bmisdemeanor punishable by a fine or up to 180 days or both fine and imprisonment.

  4. Reporting Continued…. • Professionals are required to report abuse/neglect within 48 hours of learning of the abuse. • A professional may not delegate to or rely on another person to make the report. • Professionals include people who are either licensed by the state or work in a facility licensed by the state OR who have direct contact with children in the course of their job. Professionals may include: • teachers and school personnel, • physicians, • nurses, • attorneys, • clergy, • therapist and mental health professionals, • social workers, • law enforcement, • child care providers (day care, babysitters), • foster parents

  5. Types of Child Abuse/Neglect Investigated by CPS

  6. #8 CPS has different “stages of service” and caseworkers who specialize in each area: • Intake • Investigation • Family Based Safety Services • Substitute Care • Family Reunification • PAL (Preparation for Adult Living) • Adoption/Post Adoption

  7. #7 Regional Education Specialists • Each DFPS region has at least one Education Specialist. There is an Education Specialist at the CPS State Office. • Act as liaisons to local school districts, CPS staff, community agencies. • Serve as regional subject matter experts for school-related issues. • Provide training to internal and external stakeholders. • Attend school-student meetings to support children/youth in substitute care; Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) meetings; school manifestation hearings; transition planning; Circles of Support; and court hearings as needed.

  8. #6 Education Portfolio • What is it? • Green binder • Follows students in care from home to home • One place for all school records • What might DFPS want from schools to put in it? • Transcripts • Report cards • Test scores • IEPs

  9. #5 Enrollment Expectations • Enrollment for children in DFPS Conservatorship ages 5 through 21 • All children who are in DFPS conservatorship and are at least 5 years old and younger than 21 years old on the first day of September of any school year must be enrolled in: • a public school that has been accredited by the Texas Education Agency (TEA); or • a private school accredited by the Texas Private School Accreditation Commission • The CPS Assistant Commissioner has the authority to approve a case-specific exemption

  10. #4 Foster Care Redesign http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/Adoption_and_Foster_Care/About_Foster_Care/redesign.asp

  11. #3 No Corporal Punishment

  12. #2 Children and youth in foster care are just like other children. They want to be involved in extracurricular sports and activities. They want to have friends and be a part of a peer circle. Some will forget to do their homework. Some will excel academically or athletically. Some might get into trouble and some might be the class president . . . they are no different than the other students at the school.

  13. #1 Please. . . respect our children and youth’s privacy.

  14. Thank You! Jenny Hinson Division Administrator for Permanency Jenny.hinson@dfps.state.tx.us 512-656-7598 www.dfps.state.tx.us

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