Section 42.0433 - Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention Plan(a) In this section, "postvention" has the meaning assigned by Section 38.351, Education Code.(b) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt a model suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policy for use by a residential child-care facility. The model policy must:(1) be based on current and best evidence-based practices;(2) require all employees of the facility to receive annual suicide prevention training that includes understanding of safety planning and screening for risk;(3) promote suicide prevention training for non-employee entities, as appropriate; and(4) include procedures to support children who return to the facility following hospitalization for a mental health condition.(c) Each residential child-care facility shall adopt a suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policy. A residential child-care facility may adopt: (1) the model policy adopted by the executive commissioner under Subsection (b); or(2) another suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policy approved by the executive commissioner.(d) The suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policy adopted under Subsection (c) may be part of a broader mental health crisis plan if the components of the plan include suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention.(e) The commission shall provide to a residential child-care facility any technical assistance necessary to adopt or implement a suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policy.Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 42.0433
Added by Acts 2021, Texas Acts of the 87th Leg. - Regular Session, ch. 621,Sec. 20, eff. 6/14/2021.