TX :: Child Protective Services Handbook :: Protocol for Care Coordination :: Child or Youth Missing from Care :: Notifications during Regular Business Hours

TX :: Child Protective Services Handbook :: Protocol for Care Coordination :: Child or Youth Missing from Care :: Notifications during Regular Business Hours

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The regional router will contact the assigned Primary CVS worker’s Program Director to ensure the CVS Supervisor and CVS worker are notified timely that a child or youth is missing or has run away.   

CVS Worker will: 

  1. Immediately notify the Regional Director Assistant (RDA) to report:  
    1. A child or youth is missing or has run away, and 
    2. b. Request a SI be assigned, if one has not yet been assigned.  
  2. Confirm CVS Supervisor and chain of command are informed of the child or youth’s runaway/missing status 
  3. Within 8 hours, complete notifications to  
    1. LE (unless completed by placement), NCMEC and identified required parties. (See Notification, page 11) 
    2. CCT and HT/CSEY Advocate, if applicable 
  4. Provide assigned SI a copy of the court order granting DFPS conservatorship and the CPS Missing Child Preliminary Sheet. 
  5. Ensure a current photo of the child or youth is in IMPACT. 

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