Accomplishments
Treatment Foster Family Care
CPS started a new program called Treatment Foster Family Care and awarded three contracts to Arrow Child and Family Services, Covenant Kids, Inc., and the Bair Foundation in July and August of 2018. Experts from multiple disciplines provide innovative services that have been proven effective or supported by research to children age 10 and younger. These children have mental health or behavioral issues and might otherwise be in residential treatment centers. This program provides short-term services to stabilize children and help them transition successfully into less restrictive or permanent places to live.
Intense Plus
CPS created a new service level called Intense Plus, which pays residential child-care providers a higher rate for a higher level for service for youth with complex needs. Intense Plus serves children and youth who have severe to chronically serious emotional or behavioral problems that made it hard for them to function in a family, school, or community setting.
Community Based Care
CPS expanded Community Based Care (CBC) in FY 2018. The goal of CBC is to improve the overall well-being of children in state care, find them permanent places to live, and keep them closer to home and connected with their communities and siblings. A single contractor is responsible for foster care and kinship care services within each geographic area. This contractor is responsible for finding foster homes or other places for children in state care to stay, and providing them and their families with a full continuum of services. The contractor will also provide case management.
In FY 2018:
- DFPS awarded a contract to 2INgage, a new partnership between Texas Family Initiative LLC and New Horizons Ranch and Center Inc., to serve as SSCC for the Region 2 area.
- DFPS awarded a contract to Family Tapestry, a division of the Children’s Shelter, to serve Bexar County.
- DFPS renewed its contract with ACH Child and Family Services in the Region 3b. ACH will continue to provide placement, preparation for adult living, and adoption services, as well as case management services in the future.
CPS expects to expand CBC to four additional areas in FY 2019. See Community Based Care on the DFPS website for more information.