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DFPS requires caregivers to complete all training listed below

Medical Consent

This training is for any person authorized to make medical decisions for children in the legal custody of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS). This includes foster parents, case managers for child placing agencies, professional staff of emergency shelters, cottage parents, relative and kinship caregivers, and certain DFPS staff and youth medical consenters.

Normalcy

This course will help you understand the need for children in your care to have a normal living environment. We call this normalcy. This federal law was created to improve the well-being and normalcy of children and youth in foster care.

CPS must allow children in foster care to do things and have experiences that are normal for kids their age.

Psychotropic Medication

This training explains Child Protective Services’s expectations for the safe and effective use of psychotropic medications by children in DFPS conservatorship. Talk to your child’s doctor about any specific questions you may have about the medications your child is taking. These medications treat symptoms of psychosis or other mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.

Preventing and Recognizing Youth Sexual Abuse

This training explains how to prevent and recognize youth sexual abuse. This training must be taken in the DFPS caregivers portal.

Runaway Prevention

DFPS provides this training to help families, and caregivers identify ways to prevent or reduce the risk that children and youth in foster care will run away or go missing.

Trauma Informed Care

This course for caregivers will help you understand how trauma affects behaviors in children and youth, including how “trauma triggers” can increase the risk that a child or youth will run away or go missing.

Transportation Safety

Transporting Children Safely in Child Care is designed to provide child care providers with basic knowledge on the correct selection, usage, and installation of child safety seats as well as guidelines for protecting children in and around vehicles.

Cyber security

DIR has developed certified training. This video is being offered free of charge, in English and Spanish, to anyone who needs to meet the training requirements of Texas Government Code 2054.5191 or 2054.5192 and based on each organization’s preference.

Water Safety

DFPS encourage you to promote water safety awareness with your networks all year. The goal is to reach as many individuals as possible to equip families with knowledge and resources to support water safety practices in Texas.

Mandatory Reporting Community Response for Youth and Families

This course provides professional reporters with information on mandatory reporting law. Professional reporters will obtain general knowledge regarding who and how to report while developing a basic understanding of abuse and neglect. This training does not meet all training requirements mandated by Texas Education Code § 38.004 (c)(2).

Human Trafficking Foundations for Child Watch Support Coordinators | DFPS LearningHUB

Human trafficking, a severe violation of human rights and a violent crime is a modern-day form of slavery. Its victims are controlled and exploited for profit. Forced labor and sexual exploitation are the most common types of human trafficking.

Most trafficking victims are often not held physically captive but nevertheless are not free to leave their trafficker. In fact, trafficking victims’ bonds and chains are most often invisible due to the psychological and physical abuses and threats perpetrated by their traffickers.