TX :: Child Protective Services Handbook :: 8200 Direct Services for Active Cases :: 8223 Referring Clients for Family-Based Safety Services

To refer clients for family-based safety services (FBSS), the worker completes the following steps.

For full instructions, see 8161.1 Active Cases – Authorizing, Extending, or Terminating Direct Services.

To Initiate Service:	To Extend or Reauthorize Service:
Provide a completed CPS risk assessment tool, structured narrative, analysis, and conclusion of the current investigation.	Adhere to the following general time frames: • Regular In-Home Safety Services — Up to six months • Moderate In-Home Safety Services — Up to 90 days • Intensive In-Home Safety Services — Up to 90 days.

To Initiate Service:

To Extend or Reauthorize Service:

Provide a completed CPS risk assessment tool, structured narrative, analysis, and conclusion of the current investigation.

Adhere to the following general time frames:

• Regular In-Home Safety Services — Up to six months

• Moderate In-Home Safety Services — Up to 90 days

• Intensive In-Home Safety Services — Up to 90 days.

Ensure that the family’s complete case record is accessible to the contractor.

Schedule a joint visit with the client, the contracted worker, and the CPS worker who referred the case to the contractor.

Transfer the case to the CPS liaison or other identified CPS workers.

Specify a time frame within which the family-based safety services will be provided, within the following restrictions:

• Regular Family-Based Safety Services — Authorize up to six months

• Moderate Family-Based Safety Services — Authorize up to six months

• Intensive Family-Based Safety Services — Authorize up to four months

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