Texas HB3492 mandates annual eight-hour training for caregivers and staff working with children under the Department of Family and Protective.

Texas HB3492 requires foster parents, adoptive parents, kinship caregivers, department caseworkers, department supervisors, and personnel at agencies that provide services to children in the department's conservatorship to complete an annual online eight-hour training course. The course focuses on nurturing the emotional health and supporting the emotional well-being of children, including instruction on attachment issues, trauma-informed care, and emotional expression. The training must be offered in both Spanish and English. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

Texas HB3492 mandates annual eight-hour training for caregivers and staff working with children under the Department of Family and Protective.

Texas HB3492 requires foster parents, adoptive parents, kinship caregivers, department caseworkers, department supervisors, and personnel at agencies that provide services to children in the department's conservatorship to complete an annual online eight-hour training course. The course focuses on nurturing the emotional health and supporting the emotional well-being of children, including instruction on attachment issues, trauma-informed care, and emotional expression. The training must be offered in both Spanish and English. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.