Safe Life Journey

Interviews completed indicate foster parents were pressured to take the current placement with promises of an infant being placed in the home at a later date.

Home screening evaluation was completed over the phone but home screening documents states interviews were completed face to face.

Child placement management staff did not sign or approve foster home screening addendums.

The fire inspection was not completed prior to home verification.

Operation staff did not report to Licensing when there was suspicion of drug use by the foster parents.

An investigator was not allowed access to a bedroom in a foster home.

A "stun pen" which delivers an electrical jolt was not locked and was accessible to children in care.

Children were hit with a shoe by a caregiver as a form of punishment.

A caregiver used a "stun gun pen," which delivers an electric jolt, on a child's hand as a form of discipline.

This standard was found deficient as part of a DFPS investigation.

One caregiver did not intervene when another caregiver used a "stun gun pen," which delivers an electric jolt, on a child in care as a form of discipline.

One child was not given administered one medication as prescribed by the physician.

One home file did not include training certificates, a letter or a signed statement from the training source indicating that several required trainings had been completed.

The caregiver was not using the car seats appropriately to secure children in care when transporting.

Over-the-counter medication was not stored in a locked container in the master bedroom and master bathroom. The master bedroom door was unlocked leaving it accessible to children in care. Note: This was corrected during the inspection and noted by the inspector.

One medication was not given to the child every 6 hours as prescribed

Two adult biological children were not interviewed.

Home screening reviewed does not discuss the foster parent's parent or relationship with their parents.

Background check results for three frequent visitors were not discussed in the home screening.

One foster child did not have a TB test completed within the first 30 days of admission.

Two loaded firearms were observed by law enforcement to be stored unsecured on the top of the foster parent's bedroom closet.

There were two firearms discovered at the foster home that were not documented in the foster home record.

During a sampling inspection, foster parent indicated that her son is a frequent visitor, he does not have a required background check.

One child did not receive their medication for two days. Another child did not receive their medication for three days.

A review of an employee file showed that previous employee who was rehired failed to get an updated TB test.

A review of an employee file indicated that the employee did not meet the educational requirements of the job description.

A review of a foster home file did not have the required dimensions listed on the sketch of the floor plan

A child's medication logs did not document the reason why a PMN medication was given to the child.

Multiple medication logs did not document the time the medication was given to the child.

One medication log did not document the reason the medication was prescribed to the child.