Bair Foundation of Texas

The foster parent confirmed that he used a restraint by holding the child in care on the arm of a chair for 20 minutes preventing her from leaving the hold.

The guardian of the child in care stated that she did not know interventions have been used on the child in care.

The foster parent confirmed pulling the child in care by her wrists upstairs while the child in care complained of pain.

Both foster parents confirmed the use of discipline techniques that are against the agency's policy and procedures.

The foster parent confirmed that she had the bedroom door removed on multiple occasions due to the child's behavior.

The foster parent used a seclusion restraint by leaving the child alone in a room and preventing her from leaving by holding the door shut.

According to the agency, no emergency behavior intervention documentation has been completed for any of the interventions used in the foster home.

One of the 5 dogs did not have a current rabies vaccination.

Over the counter medication was left out in unlocked left kitchen cabinet.

When requesting for documentation on subsequent pre-placement visits there was none available.

when reviewing documentation day care was not provided in a timely manner as stated in the agencies policy.

When conducting an inspection of the home and requesting documentation of the child the foster parent had no documentation provided from the facility.

A foster child ran away from (and returned to) the foster home on a Friday night and then again two days later. The foster parent indicated the operation did not implement any type of extra supervision nor notify the foster parent that the operation would discharge the foster child the next day.

Three foster parents do not have active background checks completed.

Operation did not call in to report when they became aware of an allegation made by child in care being hit by the foster parent.

During a review conducted on March 31, 2023, it was determined that: (1) your operation?s administrator failed to ensure compliance with the current HM Plan(s); and (2) 12 months had elapsed since the effective date of the plan. As you know, the heightened monitoring plans for your operation included a specific ?planned end date? at the original 12-month mark by which your operation was expected to meet all heightened monitoring criteria necessary to move out of active heightened monitoring to a phase of ?post plan monitoring.? As a direct result of the administrator?s failure to ensure timely compliance with heightened monitoring plans, your operation was unable to successfully move to post-plan monitoring by the original ?planned end date? necessitating previous extension. Furthermore, your operation?s ?planned end date? must now be revised, and the period of heightened monitoring must be extended again. Further details of the failure of your operation?s administrator to ensure compliance include the following: - Operation was unable to meet compliance with Medium-High or High weighted licensing citations, including having an open investigation(s). Finding: 749.635(2) ? The licensed administrator must ensure the operation complies with current heightened monitoring plans.

Child in care ran away from the home on 12/01/2022 at 11pm, this was not reported to Licensing until 12/02/2022 at 9:14am. The child in care is 15 years old and the runaway was reported 10 hours later, exceeding the 6-hour timeframe to report.

Failure to report a serious incident.

One communicable disease was not reported within timeframes. The positive result was received on 8/1 and it was reported on 8/3 to Licensing.

A report to Licensing of a child contracting a communicable disease is required no later than 24 hours after becoming aware of the communicable disease. Child Odis R. tested positive for COVID on 7.24.21 at 8 AM; Licensing was not notified until the afternoon of 7.26.21.

A child in care was not supervised appropriately several times in the foster home.