Updated 12/14/2010 09:41 AM
Foster care panel finalizes system redesign
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A year of meetings, discussions and disagreements came to a close Monday.
Twenty-eight members of the Public Private Partnership, assembled to improve the state's foster care system, submitted their recommendations.
All recommendations submitted were required to stay within the system's $107 million budget.
Click here to view our interactive timeline of the changes of CPS and foster care. You can view the stories of those who've made it through the system and see their take on all the proposed changes.
Some of those changes include completely revamping the reimbursement system and giving communities a chance to submit proposals for services.
For the past 21 years, Michael Redden worked in the private sector running New Horizon Ranching Center in Abilene. Now, he co-chairs the partnership.
"In this process, the providers came together, the stakeholders that have a vested interest and work together, and in the end, I feel like we have partners. When you have a partnership, focusing on the best interest of the children, [the] children have the best opportunity for success," Redden said.
If lawmakers approve the model, it could begin rolling out by January 2012.