Hospital Sitting Services

A Case worker may authorize this service when a child is in the hospital for extensive amounts of time, needs a sitter, and neither the worker nor the foster parents are available.

Facts-

• We provide hospital sitting services to children in DFPS Conservetorship;
• The purpose of this service is to protect and to ensure safety in the interest of the child;
  
• Eligible clients are children who are in the managing conservetorship of DFPS that are currently receiving care in a hospital.
  
  

What Is Hospital Sitting Services?

Hospital Sitting Services is a Program designed and proven to protect children and to act in the children’s best interest. We work along with the State of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to  focuses on children and their families and seeks active involvement of the children’s parents and other family members to solve problems that lead to abuse or neglect.

Hospital sitting services are used for children in DFPS Conservatorship that are hospitalized because of illness or injury. The hospital sitting services may also be provided at a rehabilitative or nursing home facility. Our Hospital Sitter stays with the child and provides appropriate supervision and basic child care when the child is hospitalized and neither a DFPS staff person nor a Foster Parent is available to stay with the child.

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Client Characteristics

The Westfield Hospital Sitting Service mission is to make Reasonable efforts to provide services that meet the individual needs of the client. Our experienced Sitters will provide services to people of various cultures, races, ethnic backgrounds, and religions in a manner that recognizes and affirms their worth, protects and preserves their dignity, and ensures equity of service delivery.

Our service team will take into consideration the intellectual functioning, literacy, level of education, and comprehension ability of each client in order to ensure that all information is presented in a way that meets the individual needs of each client. We will serve individuals with characteristics including, but not limited to:

• Assaultive or Homicidal Behaviors;
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders; and
• Physical Abuse

The Westfield Corporation will serve children who are hospitalized due to illness or injury. Some children may have injuries that involve major trauma. The Westfield Corporation will also provide all services in the client's primary language or the language that the client is most comfortable speaking, either directly or through a translator.

The Client

Outcomes and Measures

Trauma Informed Care

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