Sec. 42.0537. CAREGIVER TRAINING REQUIREMENT. (a) The department shall include a provision in each contract with a child-placing agency with whom children in the managing conservatorship of the department are placed that requires the child-placing agency to provide at least 35 hours of competency-based, preservice training to a potential caregiver before the child-placing agency verifies or approves the caregiver as a foster or adoptive home.
(b) The department shall adopt policies to ensure that each potential caregiver receives at least 35 hours of competency-based, preservice training before the department verifies or approves the caregiver as a foster or adoptive home.
(c) The training required by this section does not apply to an individual who has been designated as a kinship caregiver and who is pursuing verification or licensure as a foster parent or approval as an adoptive parent.
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1008 (H.B. 781), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2015.
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