Current through August 30, 2024
(a) A residential
psychiatric treatment center shall have a comprehensive written training plan,
and shall submit it to the department, for the orientation, ongoing training,
and development of staff members.
(b) The orientation portion of the training
plan required by (a) of this section must provide that
(1) a new caregiver employee or volunteer who
has less than six months of previous full-time experience working with
emotionally disturbed persons in a residential setting is to receive at least
40 hours of orientation and training, as described in (4) of this subsection,
and at least 40 hours of child care experience in the facility, working under
supervision, before being assigned to independently carry out a particular
caregiving job;
(2) a new caregiver
employee or volunteer who has at least six months of previous full-time
experience working with emotionally disturbed persons in a residential setting
is to receive at least 20 hours of orientation and training, as described in
(4) of this subsection, and at least 20 hours of child care experience in the
facility, working under supervision, before being assigned to independently
carry out a particular caregiving job;
(3) a new administrative, clerical,
housekeeping, janitorial, or other support employee, if the employee's job
involves even minimal contact with children in care, is to receive orientation
and training as described in (4) of this subsection; for each job class, the
residential psychiatric treatment center shall determine the hours of training
and topics appropriate to the duties of persons in that job class, including
interaction or contact by those persons with children in care;
(4) orientation and initial training of
persons as required in (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection is to include, at a
minimum, orientation to
(A) the purpose,
goals, policies and procedures of the treatment center;
(B) working conditions and
regulations;
(C) responsibilities
and rights of employees or volunteers;
(D) the facility's policy and procedures for
resident and family grievances;
(E)
psychiatric treatment for children with severe mental, emotional or behavioral
disorders;
(F) the security plan of
the facility as described in
7 AAC 50.805; and
(G) the theory and practical application of
techniques for de-escalating violent, destructive, angry, or runaway behavior
by out-of-control residents while protecting the safety of the employee or
volunteer and of other residents; and
(5) the facility may acknowledge and give
credit for prior training that the employee or volunteer received, and that is
the equivalent of parts of the orientation and training required by the
facility's training plan, if the prior training occurred no more than two years
before the individual became an employee or volunteer.
(c) The portion of the training plan required
by (a) of this section for ongoing staff training and development must provide
each caregiver employee or supervisor of caregivers, after that individual's
first year of employment at the facility, is to receive at least 40 hours of
training each subsequent year of employment; that training must address, at a
minimum, the following areas:
(1) security
procedures;
(2) supervision and
treatment of child residents;
(3)
regulations and procedures for use of restraints, isolation, or physical force
as applied to a resident;
(4)
resident rights and responsibilities;
(5) fire and emergency procedures;
(6) interpersonal relations and communication
skills;
(7) the theory of treatment
of mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders of the types with which residents
of the facility are diagnosed;
(8)
social and cultural lifestyles of children in the various communities or groups
from which the residents of the facility came;
(9) child growth and development;
(10) the theory and treatment of fetal
alcohol syndrome and fetal alcohol effect;
(11) the theory and practical application of
techniques for de-escalating violent, destructive, angry, or runaway behavior
by out-of-control residents while protecting the safety of the employee and the
safety of other residents or employees;
(12) first aid and cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR).
(d)
The training plan required by (a) of this section must provide that each
part-time employee and regular volunteer working or volunteering less than 40
hours per week is to receive training appropriate to that individual's
assignments, and that volunteers working the same schedule or number of hours
as full-time paid employees are to receive the same training as full-time
employees.
(e) The facility shall
maintain written records documenting training sessions held or external
training sessions attended, the participation of individual employees or
volunteers, the hours involved, and other in-service training or external
training activities in which each employee or volunteer was involved.
(f) A training program must be presented by
persons who are qualified in the areas in which they are conducting
training.
(g) A residential
psychiatric treatment center shall designate one administrative, managerial, or
supervisory staff person to be the training director responsible to plan and
implement employee and volunteer training programs.
Authority:AS
44.29.020
AS
47.14.100
AS
47.32.030
