Family Preservation Services (FPR) are services provided to the child and the family where the caregiver retains legal custody.

This chart counts children served in Family Based Safety Services Family Preservation Stages during the fiscal year.

Child count is both unduplicated and duplicated by stage of children in FPR stages during the fiscal year. Some children are in more than one Family Preservation Stage at the same time due to having separate caregivers with open stages or having more than one stage opened at different times within the same fiscal year.

NOTE: Family Preservation Services is under the umbrella of Family Based Safety Services (FBSS).

Family Preservation Services are services provided to the child and the family where the caregiver retains legal custody.

This provides a snapshot of how many families were open to services on the final day of the fiscal year. If a family had two family preservation stages open on August 31, they are counted twice.

NOTE: Family Preservation Services is under the umbrella of Family Based Safety Services (FBSS).

Recidivism is calculated as a percentage of all alleged perpetrators in abuse/neglect investigations closed without services who were a confirmed perpetrator within 12 months after the prior investigation was closed without services.

Calculating this way, for example, the Fiscal Year 2019 rate reflects recidivism of alleged perpetrators in investigations closed without services in Fiscal Year 2018, the Fiscal Year 2018 rate reflects recidivism among alleged perpetrators in investigations closed without services in 2017, and so on.

This chart counts the different legal statuses granted during the fiscal year for children in DFPS custody. Children in DFPS custody are those for whom a court has appointed DFPS legal responsibility through temporary or permanent managing conservatorship or other court ordered legal basis.

This chart includes any child in DFPS custody at some point during the year. Children may be duplicated in the count, if they were in and out of DFPS custody more than once during the fiscal year.

A description of the different types of legal statuses is in the CPS glossary: https://www.dfps.texas.gov/About_DFPS/Data_Book/Child_Protective_Services/Resources/glossary.asp

Go to dfps.texas.gov for information on all DFPS programs.

Statewide Intake (SWI) has the responsibility to assess information received to the definitions of possible abuse, neglect or exploitation for each program served and to prioritize and route the information to the correct destination workload.

SWI is the centralized point of intake for child abuse and neglect, abuse, neglect or exploitation of people age 65 or older or adults with disabilities, clients served by DSHS or DADS employees in State Hospitals or State Supported Living Centers, and children in licensed child-care facilities or treatment centers for the entire State of Texas.

SWI receives intake reports for the following Programs:
Adult Protective Services (APS)
Adult Provider Investigations
Child Protective Investigations (CPI)
Day Care Licensing (DCL)
Residential Child Care Licensing (RCCL)

FOOTNOTES
Not all reports are assigned for investigation.

There can be more than one source per contact. This dashboard counts report contacts determined by the date of contact.

Visit dfps.state.tx.us for information on all DFPS programs

Recidivism is calculated as a percentage of all alleged victims and child principals in alternative response and investigation stages, who did not receive any ongoing services, who had a subsequent confirmed allegation, or case open for ongoing services within 12 months.

Numerator: Number of children who have a confirmed allegation in an investigation or an open family preservation or substitute care stage within 12 months of a closed investigation or alternative response stage with no ongoing services.

Denominator: Number of alleged and confirmed victims in investigations (excluding admin closures) and alternative response stages closed 12 months prior with no ongoing services.

Statewide Intake (SWI) has the responsibility to assess information received to the definitions of possible abuse, neglect or exploitation for each program served and to prioritize and route the information to the correct destination workload.

SWI is the centralized point of intake for child abuse and neglect, abuse, neglect or exploitation of people age 65 or older or adults with disabilities, clients served by DSHS or DADS employees in State Hospitals or State Supported Living Centers, and children in licensed child-care facilities or treatment centers for the entire State of Texas.

SWI receives intake reports for the following Programs:
Adult Protective Services (APS)
Adult Provider Investigations
Child Protective Investigations (CPI)
Day Care Licensing (DCL)
Residential Child Care Licensing (RCCL)

Not all reports are assigned for investigation.

There can be more than one source per contact. This dashboard counts report contacts determined by the date of contact.

Visit dfps.state.tx.us for information on all DFPS programs

The injuries that led to the child's death may have been sustained prior to DFPS being granted to legal custody. For example, in Fiscal Year 2016 six children died while in DFPS Conservatorship (five while in Foster Care). However, four of these children sustained the injuries that led to their death prior to being placed in DFPS custody.

This chart includes child fatalities investigated and confirmed by Child Protective Investigations, Day Care Investigations, and Residential Child Care Investigations, and Adult Protective Services. Fatality information does not include corrections or updates, if any, that may subsequently be made to DFPS data after fiscal year end.

Only Children in DFPS Legal Responsibility (Conservatorship) are included. You can further filter to see how many were in Foster Care at the time of death.

The Adult Protective Provider Investigations division was tranferred to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) in Fiscal Year 2018.

This dashboard addresses Texas Family Code Section 264.017, Subsection (b) (4) and (5).

Families served in Family Based Safety Services Family Preservation Stages during the fiscal year. All of the children are living in the home at the time of FBSS services.

Family Preservation Services (FPR) are services provided to the child and the family where the caregiver retains legal custody.

This counts children in Family Based Safety Services Family Preservation Stages on August 31, the final day of the fiscal year.

Child count is both unduplicated and duplicated by stage of children in FPR stages during the fiscal year. Some children are in more than one Family Preservation Stage at the same time due to having separate caregivers with open stages or having more than one stage opened at different times within the same fiscal year.

NOTE: Family Preservation Services is under the umbrella of Family Based Safety Services (FBSS).