Submitted by an advocate

DFPS Foster Care Redesign Update

These recommendations were to be made within two parameters: the redesigned system could not require nor preclude additional funding and the redesigned system could not include transfer of case management responsibilities. Specifically, we were to address the following objectives:

How to contract
How to pay
Where and what kind of services were needed

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has updated its Foster Care Redesign website and posted a 12/13/10 letter from the Public Private Partnership to DFPS Commissioner Heiligenstein.

GovDelivery, Inc. sending on behalf of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission · 4900 North Lamar Blvd · Austin TX 78751 · 1-800-439-1420
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What I don't understand is why didn't they just help the mother get and keep a home for her children? I guess they wouldn't make any money from doing that. Maybe this is how TX made more money on Adoption's, than any other State in the U. S. this year.


Cameron News - December 19, 2010
It's Move-In Day for Six Cameron Siblings Adopted by Family Members (KBTX-TV Bryan)
It is safe to say, Crystal Spillers has her hands full. "We have a very big family and family is the most significant thing in life." And Saturday the Spillers family got a little bigger.
http://www.kbtx.com/local/headlines/Its_Move-In_Day_for_Six_Cameron_Siblings_Adopted_by_Family_Members_112136964.html