Section 350.617 - Public Outreach Contact, Planning, and Evaluation(a) The contractor must inform the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) of the person to contact regarding public outreach efforts.(b) The contractor must establish goals, strategies, and activities to meet the requirements of this subchapter. This strategic planning process must include the review and incorporation of any major HHSC ECI policy change concerning the types of information described in § 350.609(b) of this subchapter (relating to Child Find).(c) The strategic planning process must be coordinated with other contractors that share counties and primary referral sources.(d) The public outreach strategic planning process must include an evaluation of the success of the contractor's public outreach efforts with a focus on the: (1) number of children referred to the ECI program;(2) percentage of children referred that are determined eligible for the program;(3) percentage of children determined eligible that enroll in the program;(4) data in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection broken down by age, race, and ethnicity at referral; referral source; and eligibility type; and(5) plans to address issues found in the evaluation of public outreach efforts.(e) The contractor must be prepared to describe this strategic planning process and its outcomes to HHSC ECI upon request.26 Tex. Admin. Code § 350.617
The provisions of this §108.617 adopted to be effective September 1, 2013, 38 TexReg 5524; amended by Texas Register, Volume 44, Number 26, June 28, 2019, TexReg 3288, eff. 6/30/2019; entire chapter transferred from Title 40, Part 2, Chapter 208 by Texas Register, Volume 46, Number 06, February 5, 2021, TexReg 0941, eff. 3/1/2021; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 47, Number 10, March 11, 2022, TexReg 1286, eff. 3/17/2022