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DePelchin's services focus on foster care and adoption, residential treatment, prevention and early intervention, and counseling for children and families. Renovated in 2002, the current campus of DePelchin Children's Center at 4950 Memorial Drive, Houston, Texas 77007
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) is responsible for investigating charges of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children, the elderly, and adults with disabilities. Prior to its creation in 2004, the agency had been called the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services ( DPRS ).
The Texas legislature voted to move to the new format in 2017, shortly after the death of a 15-year-old girl who was in CPS care in Houston. It was also in the wake of a class-action lawsuit ...
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Instead, the state's child protective services agency, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), ordered the parents to leave the hospital and placed the baby in foster care.
Child protective services (CPS) refers to government agencies in the United States that investigate allegations of child abuse or neglect, and if confirmed, intervene by providing services to the family through a safety plan, in-home monitoring, supervision, or if a safety plan is not feasible or in emergencies, removing the child from the custody of their parent or legal guardian.
A child in Houston, Texas is dead after authorities say the 19-month-old girl was placed in the oven by the baby's older siblings while being left home alone by the mother.
In March 2022, when Greg Abbott issued a directive to Texas's child protective services agency (DFPS) to open investigations into "child abuse" by parents who provide gender-affirming care to their transgender children, [15] Menefee publicly refused to prosecute civil cases against those parents, publishing an open letter in The Daily Beast. [16]