Sec. 531.02491. JOINT TRAINING FOR CERTAIN CASEWORKERS. (a) The executive commissioner shall provide for joint training for health and human services caseworkers whose clients are children, including caseworkers employed by:
(1) the commission;
(2) the Department of Aging and Disability Services;
(3) the Department of State Health Services;
(4) a local mental health authority; and
(5) a local intellectual and developmental disability authority.
(b) Training provided under this section must be designed to increase a caseworker's knowledge and awareness of the services available to children at each health and human services agency or local mental health or intellectual and developmental disability authority, including long-term care programs and services available under a Section 1915(c) waiver program.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 156, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. Renumbered from Government Code Sec. 531.0244 by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1275, Sec. 2(66), eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 2.068, eff. April 2, 2015.