SECTION 749.3691. What contacts must I maintain with adoptive applicants prior to the placement of a child?

(a) After you accept a family as a potential adoptive placement, you must maintain at least quarterly contact with them.

(b) You must discuss any changes in the information that you obtain during the adoption screening.

(c) In addition to the quarterly contacts, you must provide education and training in regard to the following as deemed appropriate by the child placement staff:

(1) Bonding with adoptive children;

(2) Parenting issues and concerns; and

(3) Children with special needs, if appropriate.

(d) You must document each contact and training that was provided in the family's record, indicating the date, type of contact, and content.

(e) You may contract with another licensed child-placing agency to make these contacts as long as:

(1) The person making the contacts meets the minimum qualifications for a child-placement staff in §749.673 of this title (relating to What are the qualifications that an employee must have to perform child placement activities?);

(2) The agency submits the required documentation to you;

(3) Your child-placement management staff reviews and approves the documentation; and

(4) You maintain the documentation in the child's record.

Source Note: The provisions of this §749.3691 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; amended to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7522; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909