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The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services ( DFPS) is responsible for investigating charges of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children, elderly adults and adults with disabilities. Prior to its creation in 2004, the agency had been called the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services ( DPRS ).
YFZ Ranch. The Yearning for Zion Ranch, or the YFZ Ranch, [1] was a 1,700-acre (690-hectare) Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) community of as many as 700 people, located near Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas, United States. In April 2014, the State of Texas took physical and legal possession of the property.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services had itself been an object of reports of unusual numbers of poisonings, death, rapes and pregnancies of children under its care since 2004. The Texas Family and Protective Services Crisis Management Team was created by executive order after the critical report Forgotten Children of 2004.
A federal judge blasted Texas Child Protective Services for appearing to withhold serious incident reports involving children permanently in the foster care system.. Judge Janis Jack had fiery ...
Abbott, a Republican, had ordered the state Department of Family Protective Services (DFPS) to carry out child abuse investigations into families whose children were receiving puberty-blocking ...
The parents have filed a federal lawsuit against Dell Children’s Medical Center and members of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. "I think that the most important thing ...
The 84th Texas Legislature, 2015, abolished this agency effective Sept. 1, 2017. DADS services were transferred to HHSC. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) House Bill 5, 85th Regular Legislative Session, 2017, established DFPS as an agency independent of Texas Health and Human Services effective Sept. 1, 2017.
Buckner International is a private adoption agency licensed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. [3] It provides domestic and international adoption services, foster care, and support services. [4] It provides services to over 2,000 individuals receiving pre-adoption services and 1,000 individuals receiving post-adoption ...