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DFPS has awarded a Community Based Care contract to 2INgage, a new partnership
between Texas Family Initiative LLC and New Horizons Ranch and Center Inc. 2INgage will serve as the single source continuum contractor (SSCC) for the DFPS Region 2.
Texas Family
Initiative has national experience providing foster care, adoption, case
management, placement and family preservation services. New Horizons Ranch has strong community
relationships with DFPS and community leaders, has been involved in the
development of Community Based Care in Texas, and has experience in providing
an array of quality services in Region 2.
This partnership has combined child welfare experience of more than 95
years, and “is committed to the following core principles:
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INform and empower network agencies to
see themselves as part of this community and therefore take responsibility
along with the community for those children.
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INspire a more positive, performance
driven system for families and children.
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INgage community to understand that the
children entering the foster care system from their community are their
children.”
Community
Based Care is a new way of providing foster care and case management services.
It is a community-based approach to meeting the individual and unique needs of
children, youth, and families. Within a geographic service area, a single
contractor is
responsible for finding foster homes or other living arrangements for children
in state care and providing them a full continuum of services.
In 2010,
DFPS began expanding the community's role to meet the challenges of serving
children in foster care under Foster Care Redesign. In 2017, the Texas
Legislature directed DFPS to expand this model to include both foster care and kinship care (relatives who care for children) and to give the SSCC sole responsibility
for case management - rather than sharing that responsibility with Child Protective Services.
As Community
Based Care takes shape statewide, Child Protective Services' focus will shift to ensuring quality
oversight of foster care and services for children and families. The SSCC will
be responsible for case management and services that move children from foster or kinship care into a permanent home.
You can
learn more about Community Based Care on the DFPS website. We encourage
you to submit any questions about Community Based Care to the Community Based Care mailbox.
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