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Foster Care 101

East Texas Foster Care 101 Meetings

East Texas Foster Care 101 is a once-a-month, 30-minute Zoom session designed for anyone curious about fostering or interested to start the journey. You’ll hear from 4Kids4Families, the foster care case management contractor for DFPS, along with three licensing providers.

This is a great place to learn the basics, ask questions, and take your first steps toward making a difference in a child’s life. Questions are highly encouraged during the Q&A!

Reportable Incidents Include:

  • Death of a child
  • Child is in a life-threatening situation
  • A significant change in a child’s medical condition
  • Psychiatric hospitalization
  • A child who is missing from care and placed on the Amber Alert system returns to care
  • Natural disasters where children are displaced
  • Suicide attempts
  • Injuries requiring medical treatment including psychiatric hospitalization
  • Runaway incidents
  • A caregiver/staff member or child contracts a communicable disease
  • Commission of a Crime, including those committed by youth or crimes occur at a home or facility in which youth are placed
  • Allegations of abuse, neglect or abusive treatment
  • A child’s abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
  • Allegation and/or confirmed child-on-child physical and/or sexual abuse.