Texas Department Of Family & Protective Services Foster Care Needs Assessment

In January, 2017, Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) released this Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) foster care needs assessment. This annual assessment includes an analysis of two years of historical foster care placement activity to understand how the system has performed in the past, along with a forecast of foster care placement demand for the upcoming two fiscal years (in this case 2017-2018). The analysis helps to identify patterns and develop the methods for how need can be calculated. DFPS can use the forecast to more specifically estimate local area capacity need using the methods established . . .