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 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. 

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 well-being and normalcy for 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.

 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 another mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders 

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

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

 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. 

 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. 

  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).