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Residential Child Care Regulation observed and photographed the foster home's cerificate to show an inaccurate number of foster children compared to what's listed in CLASS.

Two bottles of toilet bowl cleaner were observed sitting out on the floor next to the toilet in the foster parent?s bathroom.

A bottle of bathroom cleaner was observed in an unlocked cabinet under the children's bathroom sink. The foster parent moved the cleaner out of children's reach during the visit.

During a review conducted on June 12, 2025, it was determined that: (1) your operation?s administrator failed to ensure compliance with the current HM Plan; and (2) 12 months had elapsed since the effective date of the plan. As you know, the heightened monitoring plan 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 the heightened monitoring plan, your operation is now unable to successfully move to post-plan monitoring. Furthermore, your operation?s ?planned end date? must now be revised again, and the period of heightened monitoring must be extended again. Further details of the administrator?s failure to ensure compliance include the following: - Operation failed to demonstrate 6 months of successive compliance with the standard and contract requirements that led to heightened monitoring. Finding: 749.635(2) ? The licensed administrator must ensure the operation complies with current heightened monitoring plans.

Information to locate/contact the victim was denied and initiation was missed.

Foster parent was unaware of their children's exact location while spending overnight with friends and their family.

A non-emergency child in care's preliminary service plan was completed 4 days after admission.

Three non-emergency children in care's admission assessments were completed after admissions.

Two children in care confirmed the foster parent(s) have cussed at them when in trouble.

Foster dad would not let the investigator into the home during the investigation.

During a review conducted on December 12, 2024, it was determined that: (1) your operation?s administrator failed to ensure compliance with the current HM Plan; and (2) 12 months had elapsed since the effective date of the plan. As you know, the heightened monitoring plan 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 the heightened monitoring plan, your operation is now unable to successfully move to post-plan monitoring. Furthermore, your operation?s ?planned end date? must now be revised, and the period of heightened monitoring must be extended. Further details of the administrator?s failure to ensure compliance include the following: - Operation failed to satisfy the conditions of the plan - Operation failed to demonstrate 6 months of successive compliance with the standard and contract requirements that led to heightened monitoring. -Operation was unable to meet compliance with Medium-High or High weighted licensing citations. Finding: 749.635(2) ? The licensed administrator must ensure the operation complies with current heightened monitoring plans.

Medications in the home were observed to be accessible to a child in care. Medications were stored in the foster parent's bedroom closet. The closet door as well as the bedroom door were observed to be open on the day of the visit.

A child in care was prescribed an antibiotic to be given twice per day for seven days. Foster parent indicated the child was given the medication as prescribed, however, only 4 days of administration were documented, with 1 of the 4 days lacking documentation of the AM dose.

Foster parents left child in care unsupervised while child in care was eating and access to a dog that has a history of biting another child similar in age and situation.

A PM dose of medication was not administered on 5/8/24 for one child in care.

3 of 5 children's emergency admission assessments were not completed at the time of admission.

The home study did not discuss or assess the foster parent's feelings about her daughter (bio mother), to include the issue of her neglecting or abusing her children which led to them coming into care.

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

Caregiver and child in care confirmed that the caregiver hit the child in care as discipline.

A child was subjected to demeaning behavior by a caregiver.

The home study did not discuss and assess the adult household member's involvement in the care of foster children.

The foster parent's previous relationship that resulted in two children was not discussed in the home study.

An email thread reflected another agency requested records for a foster parent on January 19th and January 31st and the operation did not respond with the request until February 5th.

During interviews it was indicated that a child was at school and not tardy during a monthly visit by case manager. The case manager monthly visit document reflected the child was present at the home when she would have been at school.

Medical lock box did not have a lock upon observation.

Clutter was found in the upstairs living area and fan a within guest room had collected dust.

Date of home visit does not match home date of signatures listed.

Video cameras are used in children's bedroom and case worker approval is not found within the service plans.

Caregiver admitted spanking a child in care.

Residential Child Care Regulation observed a foster home file who had been with a previous agency, missing quarterly evaluations and the agency requested the transfer summary 10 months after verification.

Foster home had loose wood boards on the front porch that are a hazard to children in care. Foster home had debris scattered across the floor of the rooms of the children in care.

Child in care had access to medication which led to hospitalization.

The service plan for one child was completed on 05/31/22 and the next service plan was not completed until 11/29/22, which was on the 182 day.

Licensing observed a foster home file with no fire inspection documentation.

During a walk through of the home it was observed that a hole was present on one of the walls at the top of the stairs on the second floor. It was also observed that a pan of cat litter was filled and left uncovered in one of the upstairs bathroom that is shared by the children in care.

A foster admitted to using profane language while verbally de escalating an adopted child in the home while two foster children were present.

Two foster children over age 14 were adopted in one of the agency's homes on 04-16-2023 and the agency didn't run checks until 06-02-2023.

The standard was left pending at the time of the inspection. The operation did not provide documentation of their annual budget.

This is a recitation of the reporting standard cited in standards investigation 2944660. The operation did not submit a compliance response within the required time frame, however the operation did submit a response afterward.

Licensing observed a foster home with an agency staff conducted fire inspection in July 2021 and no fire inspection since.

A DFPS investigation was not reported to Licensing within 24-hour timeframe.

It was verified pet waste, snack wrappers, and moldy linens were left in the home for a significant amount of time without being cleaned.

Licensing observed a foster home file with no documentation of an 02-21-2022 quarterly home visit. Licensing also interviewed the newly hired compliance auditor who estimates about 5% of visits are still going undone.

It was confirmed two of three children in the home were spanked by the foster parent.

The operation has not yet informed managing conservators of an abuse/neglect finding in one of their homes as of eight days after the finding was issued.

Investigation interviews indicated two foster children were left alone on two days with no babysitter. The baby sitter didn't respond to multiple attempts at phone interviewing.

Licensing observed a foster home file with foster children placed in January and no documentation of monthly visits. There was also a home which went over 60 days without a visit.The operation agreed to monthly visits to assess foster parents' stress level from foster children's behaviors on a monthly basis as part of a provider plan of action.

Licensing observed a foster home had a quartely visit in March 2021 and September 2021.

Collateral medical contacts and a foster parent interview indicate concern that a foster parent stepped away from a foster child under age six while that foster child was in a bathtub when closer visual supervision would've prevented the foster child falling out of a bathtub and that the foster parent waited over two hours before bringing that foster child to a hospital the next day when the foster child had difficulty moving their body and had three crying episodes during the night. The collateral contacts indicate these concerns are preponderance for medical neglect and neglectful supervision dispositions.

A foster parent admitted to stepping away from a three year old foster child in a bathtub to go get pajamas by the stairs. The foster parent was away from the foster child long enough for the foster child to fall out of the bathtub which the foster parent became aware of upon hearing the foster child scream.

Operation personnel admitted that a foster child being admitted to a hospital for a head injury was not reported to the DFPS hotline because they believed the managing conservator would report it.

A foster parent admitted to not taking a foster child under age six years for medical care for two hours after discovering the foster child was unable to move half their body, knowing the foster child had fallen and hurt their head the night before and had woken up three times the night before crying.

The incident report was requested from the agency in writing on 3 separate occasions beginning on 12/14/2021 and was not provided to licensing until 01/31/2022.

Licensing observed video evidence of a person confirmed to be a foster parent strike a foster child in the face.

Licensing observed video evidence of a person confirmed to be a foster parent strike a foster child in the face.

Foster parent did not report injury of a child within 24 hours as required by minimum standards.

A child in care has been video taped while exhibiting negative behaviors. The child did not want to be taped and asked the foster parent to stop taping.

Interviews with principal and collateral sources consistently indicated a foster child under age six was hit with a fly swatter hard to enough to cause bruising.

Interviews with principal and collateral sources consistently indicated a foster child under age six was hit with a fly swatter hard to enough to cause bruising.

A caregiver threw a water bottle at a child in care and the water bottle hit him.

According to a child's medication record, foster parent failed to document administration of a child's medication for 7 days.

During the walk through, 2 over the counter medications (vitamins) were not stored in a locked in containter. Foster parent corrected at inspection and put them in the locked container.

Licensing observed a home study without information about weapons.