Inability to access community based case managers that are knowledgeable about resources available in the community. This Executive Order along with the charge of SB 374 to pursue opportunities for improvements to the current system of long-term care services and supports led to HHSC implementing a Promoting Independence Initiative. A 12-member advisory board has been appointed by the HHSC Commissioner to advise in the implementation of this initiative. Include in these standards the expectation that the permanency goal for each child is to live with a family. The information should include the positive outcomes that can be achieved by connecting or reconnecting a child with the birth family or alternative family.
Discuss family supports, and tools to keep the family together.
The Promoting Independence Initiative applies to children residing in all of these facilities. Making available alternative community options would allow for families to keep their children at home or reunite with their child who has been placed in an institution. These families are considered paraprofessionals who are required to carry out habilitative plans for the child. Create a community-based model through which children in crisis situations will be placed with a temporary host family instead of in an institution. Creating a program outside CPS foster care allows families to make decisions regarding alternative family options for their child without the stigma associated with CPS, which presumes abuse and neglect.