This training is for anyone who makes medical decisions for children in the legal custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). This includes:
- Foster parents.
- Case managers for child-placing agencies.
- Professional staff of emergency shelters.
- Cottage parents (live-in caregivers) of General Residential Operations providing child care services only.
- Relatives and kinship caregivers.
- Youth who make their own medical decisions.
All medical consenters must complete medical consent training. All information and requirements apply to both primary and backup medical consenters.
