Heightened monitoring (HM) is an increase in oversight and tracking of residential child care operations that have demonstrated a pattern of violations of either (or both) of the following:

• Their contract with DFPS or with a single source continuum contractor (SSCC).
• The minimum standards required by Residential Child Care Regulation (RCCR).

RCCR is part of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC).

HM requires joint efforts by DFPS and HHSC to provide oversight of residential operations that are regulated by HHSC and have an active contract with DFPS (or with an SSCC, or both) to provide care to children in the permanent managing conservatorship of DFPS.