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    Appendix 1000-1: Records Production for ARIF of a CPS Investigation

    Appendix 1000-2: Additional Acceptable U.S. Citizenship Verification Documents

    Appendix 1100-1: Roles and Responsibilities of Family Group Decision-Making (FGDM) Staff

    Appendix 1121: Documentation Requirements for Models of Family Group Decision Making (FGDM)

    Appendix 1132: Federal and State Agencies

    Appendix 1132.2(a): Steps in Developing a Protective Services Contract

    Appendix 1132.2(b): Contract Outline

    Appendix 1132.2(c): Responsibilities of DFPS, Child Welfare Board, and County

    Appendix 1226-A: Child-Placing Requirements of the Indian Child Welfare Act and Related Guidelines and Regulations

    Appendix 1226-B: Checklist for Compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act

    Appendix 1510: Procedures for Issuing HHSC Form 1027-A

    Appendix 1511: Information Needed for the Foster Care Application

    Appendix 1514: Requesting Wire Third Party Query (WTPY) System Access

    Appendix 1515: Foster Care Eligibility Case Record

    Appendix 1530: Foster Care Eligibility

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    Appendix 1530 C: AFDC Needs Standard Income Limits

    Appendix 1530 D: Income Guidelines for Underemployed Parent for Parental Deprivation

    Appendix 1530 E: Title IV-E Eligibility Checklist

    Appendix 1530 F: Categorical Requirements for AFDC

    Appendix 1530 G: Underemployed Parent Checklist for Parental Deprivation

    Appendix 1530-H: Data Broker Verification Procedures

    Appendix 1533.2: MAO Auto-Eligibility

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    Appendix 1565.6: Outstanding Items Procedures

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    Appendix 1581.1: Appropriate Needs

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    Appendix 1618.3: Discussion Guide - Negotiating Permanency Care Assistance

    Appendix 1715.3: Negotiation of Adoption Assistance Discussion Guide

    Appendix 1922.1: Detection Periods for Abused Substances

    Appendix 1931.1 Physical Signs and Symptoms of Drug or Alcohol Use

    Appendix 1931.2: Criteria for Diagnosing Substance Abuse

    Appendix 1960: Treatment Options for Substance Abuse

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    Appendix 1971: Protocol for Working With Drug-Endangered Children

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    Appendix 2000-1: Summary of Consent Requirements

    Appendix 2140: Guidelines for Decision Making at Intake

    Appendix 2251: Time Frames for Investigations

    Appendix 2310: Structure of the Risk Assessment Tool

    Appendix 2411: Dispositions and Risk Findings Appropriate to the Types of Investigations

    Appendix 2414: "Seriousness" Indicators for Thorough Investigations

    Appendix 2471: Prior Disposition Categories

    Appendix 2472.1-A: Determining Overall Disposition and Overall Role

    Appendix 2472.1-B: Definitions of Roles

    Appendix 2472.1-C: Examples in Which the Overall Role Will Be "Unknown (Unable to Determine)"

    Appendix 2813-A: Adding, Deleting, and Changing Allegations in the Investigation Stage

    Appendix 2813-B: Correcting Information in Intake Allegations

    Appendix 2813-C: Alleged Perpetrator Incorrectly Named in Intake Allegation (Case Scenario)

    Appendix 2813-D: No Alleged Perpetrator Named in Intake Allegation (Case Scenario)

    Appendix 2813-E: Child Under Age 10 Incorrectly Named as Alleged Perpetrator in Intake Allegation (Case Scenario)

    Appendix 2813-F: Incorrect Type of Abuse or Neglect Alleged in Intake Allegation

    Appendix 2840: Persons to be Notified at the End of the Investigation

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    Appendix 3412: Community Resources

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    Appendix 3620: Services to Abused or Neglected, Unmarried, School-Age Parents (Practice Suggestions)

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    Appendix 4000-1: Additional Actions for Placing Children with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities

    Appendix 4000-2: ICF-ID/RC Levels of Care

    Appendix 4115: Information to Consider About Race, Color, and National Origin (RCNO) in Placement Decisions

    Appendix 4320: DFPS Guidelines for Service Authorizations

    Appendix 4525: Offenses from the Texas Penal Code and Other Codes

    Appendix 4531: DFPS Kinship Homes Discipline Policy

    Appendix 4623: Protocol for RCCI Investigations Involving Child-on-Child Victimization in Foster Care

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