Abbott asks CPS to begin moving very troubled foster kids out of institutions, using federal money
AUSTIN — Texas, under fire to improve its system of long-term foster care, is using federal crime-victim grant money to test whether it can get the worst-off foster children in state custody out of institutions.
The pilot program will house and work with 500 children whom Child Protective Services has found hard to place, many of them winding up in psychiatric hospitals and residential treatment centers, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday.
The children would receive "wrap-around care" — individualized medical care and mental health therapies — in "the least restrictive and most appropriate setting" at four different sites in the state, Abbott's office said in a release.
His office's Criminal Justice Division issued an $8 million grant to CPS' parent agency, the Department of Family and Protective Services.
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