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As recommended by the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to ensure consistency across all HHSC agencies, in 2012 DFPS adopted the HHSC methodology on how to categorize race and ethnicity....
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Children in DFPS custody are those for whom a court has appointed DFPS legal responsibility through temporary or permanent managing conservatorship or other court ordered legal basis. These...
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Services provided to clients by DFPS may include social casework, case management, and arranging for psychiatric and health evaluation, home care, day care, social services, health care, respite...
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ABOUT THIS CHART This dashboard contains information about abuse or neglect investigations that were closed by Residential Child Care Investigations staff during the specified timeframe. If at...
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Recidivism is calculated as a percentage of all alleged perpetrators in abuse/neglect investigations closed without services who were a confirmed perpetrator within 12 months after the prior...
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Children in the Custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS)- All children for whom DFPS legal responsibility through court ordered temporary or permanent managing...
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This chart includes child fatality investigations in which the child's death was determined to be caused by a factor other than abuse/neglect. A child may be included in more than one...
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SWI is the single point of contact in Texas for mandated reporters and the public to report allegations of abuse, neglect, or exploitation for children and vulnerable adults. Reports are accepted...
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Average monthly count of unduplicated children in paid foster care by fiscal year. This dataset counts unique children regardless of payment types during the month. Calculations exclude children...
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Recidivism is calculated as a percentage of all alleged victims and child principals in alternative response and investigation stages, who did not receive any ongoing services, who had a...
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This chart counts victims in completed day care (DCI) and residential care investigations (RCI). Completed investigations only include those cases conducted as a traditional investigation that...
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If a child is suffering from a severe emotional disturbance and voluntarily relinquishing custody of the child for the sole purpose of obtaining mental health services is warranted, the Department...
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The injuries that led to the child's death may have been sustained prior to DFPS being granted to legal custody. For example, in Fiscal Year 2016 six children died while in DFPS Conservatorship...
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DFPS sets priorities for the delivery of protective services. In establishing priorities, DFPS defines timeframes for conducting initial face-to-face interviews with alleged victims. The...
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The Division of Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) was created to consolidate child abuse prevention and juvenile delinquency prevention and early intervention programs within the...
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One of the following closure reasons are applied to the case: Valid - Based on the standard of preponderance of the evidence, it is more likely than not that the abuse, neglect or financial...
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Child Abuse/Neglect Prevention Programs include: Texas Families: Together and Safe (TFTS) - The TFTS program funds evidence-based, community-based programs designed to alleviate stress and...
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Snapshot of Children in Substitute Care on August 31 broken out by placement type and relative placements. Please review all of our data and DFPS services at dfps.state.tx.us
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Based on the Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) philosophy, Circles of Support (COS) are meetings that focus on the youth and their plans for transitioning to a successful adulthood. They are led...
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CPI Intakes: Priority, Screening and Assignment To establish timeframes for investigations, each report of child abuse and neglect is assigned a priority: Priority I - Intake reports that...
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