Texas Legislation Proposes Statewide Expansion Of Community-Based Foster Care

A bill, House Bill 6, introduced in the Texas Legislature on February 10, 2017, seeks to expand the state’s community-based foster care redesign model statewide. The provisions of House Bill (HB) 6 call for the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) to implement community-based foster care in at least two additional regions of the state by the end of 2019. The foster care redesign pilot model has been operating in one DFPS seven-county region near Fort Worth for the past several years. This bill promotes expansion of foster care redesign model into additional regions of . . .