SECTION 749.861. What are the pre-service experience requirements for caregivers?

(a) For caregivers providing care to children only receiving child-care services and/or programmatic services, there are no pre-service experience requirements.

(b) Before a caregiver can provide care to a child receiving treatment services, you must ensure that the caregiver has the experience to care for the child's treatment need. If a caregiver does not have the necessary experience, your child-placement management staff must prescribe a regimen of specific child-care experience that the caregiver must complete before you place a child with treatment needs in the caregiver's home, including a minimum of eight hours of observations of interactions with children receiving similar treatment services as the prospective caregiver would be providing.

(c) You must document the caregiver's experience and/or prescribed regimen in the home's record.

Source Note: The provisions of this §749.861 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; amended to be effective January 1, 2017, 41 TexReg 9944; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909