Improving Child/Youth Placement Outcomes: Foster Care Redesign
April 24, 2010 The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) released a presentation about its plans to redesign the foster care system. DFPS seeks to correct imbalances in the geographic distribution of services and provider organizations; additionally an insufficient number of residential services provider organizations offer a full continuum of services. For the redesign, DFPS will impose few restrictions. It will retain responsibility for case management, but the model can include expansion of the private sector's work with families. Download the Report . . .
