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Managed Care/Capitated Payment System: In one or more counties in north central Texas (to be determined) the State will pay a private primary contractor a standard monthly rate (s) to manage the care of children with therapeutic needs, ages 0 to 18, and their siblings. The State will create incentives for providers to move children to lower levels of care.
Major goals are to improve child functioning, reduce time in out-of-home care, decrease re-entry into foster care, increase placement stability, and ensure least restrictive placement settings.
Permanency Efforts: In Houston and surrounding counties, the State and providers will train adoptive families. They will also enhance assessment of eligible children and adoptive parents to increase the availability of adoptive families and better match families to foster children who cannot return home and who are, or will soon become, legally free.
Major goals are to Increase pool of available adoptive families, increase the number of children leaving foster care for adoption placement, reduce average time in care prior to adoptive placement, and reduce disruption and dissolution rates.
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