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Heightened Monitoring in Texas Foster Care: What It Means and How to Respond
If your child-placing agency (CPA) has just been notified that Texas Health and Human Services (HHSC) is placing you under Heightened Monitoring, you're likely trying to answer two questions at once: What does heightened monitoring mean for us? And what do we need to...
Lack of Foster Care Placements in Region 6, Texas
Finding the right foster care placement for a child is not simply about finding an available bed. The placement must also be appropriate for the child's needs, level of care, safety, family connections, and long-term well-being. That is part of the challenge facing...
Texas Foster Care Placement Holds: What Providers Need to Know
For Texas foster care providers, maintaining placement capacity is critical. A child placing agency (CPA), general residential operation (GRO), residential treatment center (RTC), or other residential operation may be responsible for providing care to children with...
Texas Minimum Standards Changes for Child Placing Agencies: What CPAs Need to Know in 2026
If you operate a Child Placing Agency in Texas, 2025 and 2026 have brought some of the most significant regulatory shifts in years. From kinship foster home verification rules to fire safety requirements and staffing standards tied to T3C, the updates to Chapter 749...
Texas’ New Foster Care System: What You Need to Know
The state of Texas is making big changes to how foster care works, and if you’re a parent, caregiver, or someone working in child welfare, you might be wondering what it all means. The new program is called Texas Child-Centered Care (T3C), and it’s designed to make...