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Amend CSHB 2335 (house committee printing) by adding the following appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
SECTION ____. Section 264.015, Family Code, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) The goals of evidence-based trauma training developed and provided by the department and the child protective services system are to:
(1) train all persons who have substantial contact with children in the department's conservatorship regarding the concepts, strategies, and skills relating to trauma-informed care and services; and
(2) reduce:
(A) the number of placement changes for children in the department's conservatorship;
(B) foster parent turnover;
(C) the number of children in the department's conservatorship who are considered unsuitable to be placed with adoptive parents;
(D) the workload for child protective services caseworkers;
(E) the amount of psychotropic medications prescribed to children in the department's conservatorship;
(F) the number of young adults who have difficulty functioning independently after transitioning out of the department's conservatorship; and
(G) the amount of money the department spends on services that do not adequately serve children who have experienced trauma.