Foster Care Resources
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Leadership Prep has dedicated resources to support all students and families, no matter their circumstance. Students within foster care have a support system to make their learning experience as seamless as possible. When made available, campus staff and faculty work closely with The Department of Family and Protective Services. Staff and faculty who support foster families are trained in various areas to provide a safe space for students to succeed.
What is Foster Care?
When children can't live safely at home due to abuse and/or neglect, the court can give temporary legal possession to Child Protective Services (CPS). CPS temporarily places these children in foster care. The court and/or CPS will also place children with non-custodial parents, relatives, or close family friends who are willing and able to care for these children, when appropriate.
Foster care settings include:
- Foster family homes;
- Foster family group homes;
- Residential group care facilities; and
- Facilities overseen by another state agency.
Foster care is meant to be a temporary placement until CPS no longer has custody and a permanent living arrangement has been found. However, for some children, it can become permanent when a foster parent adopts or accepts permanent managing conservatorship of a child.
Registration Information for Foster Care Children
A student who is placed in the conservatorship of DFPS has the right to be enrolled immediately in school, without immunization, academic records, and birth certificate.
***The school district must enroll a child in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) immediately in school regardless of documentation (Texas Family Code, Section 262) (g) A school district shall accept a child for enrollment in a public school without the documentation required by Subsection (a) if the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services has taken possession of the child under Chapter 262, Family Code. The Department of Protective and Regulatory Services shall ensure that the documentation required by Subsection (a) is furnished to the school district not later than the 30th day after the date the child is enrolled in the school.
Documents Required:
Useful Websites
Link to Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
Link to TEA Foster Care & Student Success
Post Secondary Support
District Contact:
Christie Goheen, Social Worker & District Liaison, cgoheen@lpsfrisco.com