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  • Texas Human Resources Code

     (a) The Department of Protective and Regulatory Services, the Texas Youth Commission, and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission shall maintain a joint memorandum of understanding to develop or expand nonresidential community contracts to help dysfunctional families in each agency's client population. The memorandum must include:

     (1) parent skills training;

     (2) coping skills training for youth, including communication, problem solving, decision making, and conflict management skills;

     (3) support groups for children of substance-abusing and dysfunctional families, including support groups for the parents of the children; and

     (4) individual counseling for a limited number of crisis referrals from the support groups.

     (b) The memorandum must provide that:

     (1) the agencies jointly determine the pilot counties in which the joint contract proposals are to be developed;

     (2) each agency determine the portion of its own agency funding designated for each type of contract to serve its own clients; and

     (3) joint requests for proposals be issued for the services.

     (c) The Department of Protective and Regulatory Services shall act as the lead agency in coordinating the development and implementation of the memorandum.

     (d) Not later than the last month of each state fiscal year, the agencies shall review and update the memorandum.

     (e) Each agency by rule shall adopt the memorandum and any revisions to the memorandum.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 627, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, § 8.045, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.