AUSTIN Though the foster care system in Texas has been rocked by a growing shortage of beds and increasingly pointed critiques by a federal judge, leading providers are urging the GOP-led Legislature to double down on a regional privatization approach.
The private providers are advocating brisk rollout of “community-based care,” in which one non-state entity is ceded virtual control of a geographic region, even as citations and official rebukes pile up on the two nonprofits in charge of the push in San Antonio and Fort Worth.
Troubles are mounting in both cities, the only urban demonstrations so far of the community-based care model that is likely to be imposed on Dallas and Collin counties late next year assuming there are willing bidders.
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DALLAS, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ One year ago, 3-year-old Amari Boone was brought to a children s hospital in Fort Worth experiencing respiratory failure. Within two days, he would be dead. Medical personnel and an autopsy determined that Amari s death was the result of abuse while in the Texas foster care system and under the watch of ACH Child and Family Services (or ACH) and its community-based care division that goes by the name our community. our kids.
The family of the North Texas toddler have filed a lawsuit against the organization, and its employees, who they believe failed to follow proper protocols and carry out their job requirements to keep their son safe. Amari passed away on April 12, 2020, after his third emergency visit to Cook Children s hospital, less than 40 days into his kinship placement through ACH, with agency employees responsible for monitoring him. He ultimately suffered from a severe brain injury, and his de
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Two men arrested on charges of injury to a child after 3-year-old boy dies, Fort Worth police say
Deondrick Foley, 36, and Joseph Delancy, 29, were accused after 3-year-old Amari Boone suffered blunt force trauma to the head in April.
Two men were arrested on charges of injury to a child after a 3-year-old boy died last year while he was under state supervision, Fort Worth police said Wednesday.
Deondrick Foley, 36, and Joseph Delancy, 29, were arrested Friday, months after 3-year-old Amari Boone suffered blunt force trauma to his head in April.
Foley was charged with seven counts of injury to a child by omission resulting in bodily injury, and Delancy was charged with injury to a child by omission that resulted in serious bodily injury.