The FAD worker must evaluate a foster home for compliance with relevant Minimum Standards every two years.

The FAD worker must also evaluate foster homes when:

  •   there is an allegation of deficiency with one or more Minimum Standards;

  •   there is a major life change in the foster family;

  •   there is a change that affects the condition of the verification (see 7622 Updating a Foster Home's Verification Certificate); or

  •   the FAD worker receives a family violence report.

If the FAD worker evaluates a foster home due to one of the situations above, the time frame for the evaluation for standards compliance does not change. The date only changes if the FAD worker evaluates the foster home for compliance with all licensing rules that apply to the home at the same time as the worker evaluates the home for one of the above situations.

Minimum Standards for Child-Placing Agencies, 40 TAC §§749.2801 –749.2825External Link