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The HHS Centralized Background Check Unit is required to do background checks to find out if a person has a criminal history or an abuse and neglect history that might be a risk to the health and safety of children. Background checks are required for Child Care providers, Residential Child Care providers, and Foster and adoptive homes.

Licensing and regulatory information for residential child care operations in Texas.

Texas HHS protects children by regulating and educating child care providers.

Information for Texas Adult Foster Care (AFC) providers

IDD Program Eligibility & Support has both advisors and reviewers. Reviewers can help with level of care determinations.

Information about permanency planning for children.

Texas local intellectual and developmental disability authorities (LIDDAs) provider information.

The Health and Human Services Commission provides guidance to Single Source Continuum Contractors that operate under Child Placing Agency licensure.

Each training will offer guidance for the new CMS All-Payer OASIS Submission Requirement, effective Jan. 1, 2025, and mandatory by July 1, 2025. 

Joint Training will be hosting an in-person emergency preparedness training for long-term care providers on April 17.

Beginning April 13, 2025, password requirements to log in to the Child Care Regulation Provider Portal are changing.

Long-term Care program providers and regulatory staff are invited to attend the following in-person classes hosted in April and May, .

HHSC Long-Term Care Regulation will host a webinar for Home and Community Support Services Agencies on April 17 from 11 a.m. to noon.

The OASIS training course is for administrators and alternate administrators employed at Medicare certified home health agencies and licensed home health agencies seeking Medicare certification.