Section 700.1733 - Who is eligible for residential treatment services?(a) Client eligibility. Only adopted children are eligible for residential treatment services through the post-permanency services program. To qualify, an adopted child: (1) must be expected to return home and function in the adoptive family within 12 months;(2) must not be eligible for treatment in a state hospital or state school; and(3) must have an initial service level determination of Specialized or Intense or if under the Texas Child-Centered Care (T3C) System, must be placed and receiving a T3C Service Package other than the T3C Basic Family Foster Family Home Service Package.(b) Family treatment and progress towards reunification.(1) The child's adoptive family must participate in family treatment over the course of the child's stay in residential treatment.(2) Every three-month review of the child's service plan must address the progress made towards reunifying the child with the adoptive family.(3) The contractor must begin planning for a child's discharge from residential treatment services, and must carry out the discharge within 60 days, if either of the following conditions arises:(A) the adoptive parents do not: (i) maintain regular contact with the child;(ii) participate in treatment; or(iii) intend to let the child return home; or(B) the child's functioning does not improve.(c) Minimum service level or T3C Service Package. (1) If the service level of an adopted child in residential treatment services is reduced below the Specialized Service Level or the child no longer meets the criteria for the Service Package under which they were originally placed, the contractor must immediately begin planning to: (A) support the child's return to the adoptive home;(B) refer the child and family to another facility that can meet the child's needs; or(C) help the family find other ways to pay for the contractor's continuing care.(2) The child's eligibility for DFPS-paid residential treatment services ends 60 days after the effective date of the reduced service level.40 Tex. Admin. Code § 700.1733
The provisions of this §700.1733 adopted to be effective December 1, 1994, 19 TexReg 8692; amended to be effective October 20, 1997, 22 TexReg 10152; amended to be effective March 1, 2004, 29 TexReg 1416; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 40, Number 26, June 26, 2015, TexReg 4221, eff. 7/1/2015; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 42, Number 02, January 13, 2017, TexReg 87, eff. 1/19/2017; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 49, Number 51, December 20, 2024, TexReg 10392, eff. 12/22/2024