Activity#6 Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS)
Family Centered Case Management Module
Section 4 Part 2-
Service Coordinator:
Activity#6 Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS)
Family Centered Case Management-Community Partnerships
“Connecting Children and Families to Supports and Services”
This section, “Community Partnerships--Connecting Children and Families to Supports and Services,” will provide you with a framework to conceptualize the extensive system of supports and services that link families to needed services.
Keep in mind that the agencies you are introduced to reflect SOME but not all resources. Learning about all of the available resources for families will be an ongoing process.
Directions:
Explore the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) websites provided in this activity. When you have finished, complete the matching exercise below and give to your supervisor.
As you explore the websites, gather information to learn the following:1. service(s) and/or supports that each agency provides to families and children,
2. relevant contact information,
3. procedures or processes to successfully link families with identified services, and
4. how each agency supports your work as a Service Coordinator.
- Department of Family and Protective Services
- Child Protective Services
- STAR Health Medical
- Child Care Licensing
- Prevention and Intervention
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED?
Directions: The Department of Family and Protective Services is comprised of individuals divisions i.e. child care licensing, prevention and intervention, child protective services. Read the descriptions below and match to websites listed above.
Matching Exercise
1. Department of Family and Protective Services
2. Child Protective Services
3. STAR Health Medical
4. Child Care Licensing
5. Prevention and Intervention
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- ______DFPS, CPS, and caregivers can get information and help finding medical and other providers, scheduling an appointment or getting services.
- ______This DFPS program regulates all child care operations and child placing agencies to protect the health, safety and well being of children. It establishes and monitors operations and agencies for compliance with child care licensing standards, rules and law.
- ______This DFPS program is a division of Child Protective Services that focuses on stopping abuse and neglect before it happens.
- ______This agency was previously called the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services.
- ______This DFPS program provides online training for parents to help them learn about their infant or toddler’s development, health and safety needs and so on.
- ______This DFPS program investigates reports of child abuse and neglect, places children in foster care and provides services to keep familes and children together.
- ______This agency is charged with managing community-based programs that prevent delinquency, abuse and neglect of children, the elderly and disabled adults.
- ______This DFPS program links to information about Family Group Decision Making.
- ______This DFPS program works with Texas communities to develop services to prevent child abuse and neglect, juvenile delinquency, runaway, and truancy.
- ______The program is a statewide, comprehensive health care system that was designed to better coordinate access to health care for DFPS children who have been placed in conservatorship.
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