DFPS policy states that any prescription medication, including contraceptives that are taken regularly (e.g., birth control pills), must be kept in a secure and locked location at all times and only administered by the caregiver. This means you are not allowed to keep your prescription contraceptives. Instead, your foster parent, CPS nurse, or prescription medication manager in your group home or residential treatment center is required to store them for you and will give them to you as prescribed. Long-acting birth control methods (e.g., IUDs or implants) are inserted by a healthcare provider. In this case, you don’t have to take medication daily.