TX :: Child Protective Services Handbook :: Protocol for Care Coordination :: Efforts to Recover Child or Youth Who Are Missing or Runaway

TX :: Child Protective Services Handbook :: Protocol for Care Coordination :: Efforts to Recover Child or Youth Who Are Missing or Runaway

Primary Conservatorship Worker will:  

  1. Maintain regular contact with the SI to coordinate Recovery Plan activities. 
  2. By second business day from being notified that the child or youth is missing or on runaway status coordinate a Recovery Meeting for confirmed victims of trafficking (see Recovery Meeting, pages 7-8). 
  3. On the 14th day, if child is still missing or on runaway status, update the child or youth’s placement in IMPACT, if not already completed.  
  4. Monthly, coordinate and update active efforts to locate the child or youth whose status is runaway/missing, until the child or youth returns or is recovered.  Active efforts, at minimum, includes monthly contacts with:  
    1. Assigned SI, 
    2. NCMEC for tips and leads, 
    3. Appropriate law enforcement agencies,  
    4. Child or youth’s relatives,  
    5. Child or youth’s former caregivers,  
    6. CCT and HT/CSEY Advocate, if applicable, and  
    7. Any state or local social service agency that may be providing services to the child or youth, and 
  5. Quarterly, staff with CVS Supervisor, CVS PD, SI, SIPD, and RDA to determine whether sufficient efforts have been made to locate the child or youth and whether other action is needed.

Special Investigations 

SI and SIPD will:  

  1. First business day from DFPS notification that the child or youth is missing or on runaway status:  
    1. Confirm receipt of documents from CVS to initiate recovery efforts.  
    2. SIPD will coordinate with CVS Supervisor to determine if missing or runaway child or youth has any previous history of human trafficking. 
    3. Coordinate with local LE to develop a plan to locate the child or youth as quickly as possible. 
  2. SI should participate in Recovery Meeting (see Recovery Meeting page 7). 
  3. Maintain regular contact with Primary CVS worker to coordinate Recovery Plan activities.  
  4. Monthly, coordinate and update active efforts to locate the child or youth whose status is runaway/missing, until the child or youth returns or is recovered.  Active efforts at minimum includes monthly contacts with:  
    1. Primary CVS worker, 
    2. NCMEC for tips and leads, 
    3. Appropriate law enforcement agencies,  
    4. Child or youth’s relatives,  
    5. Child or youth’s former caregivers,  
    6. CCT and HT/CSEY Advocate, if applicable 
    7. Any state or local social service agency that may be providing services to the child or youth, and 
  5. Quarterly, staff with CVS Supervisor, CVS PD, and RDA to determine whether sufficient efforts have been made to locate the child or youth and whether other action is needed.

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