Delaware Administrative Code
Title 9 - Services for Children Youth and Their Families
Division of Prevention and Behavioral Health Services
701 - Qualifications for Juvenile Mental Health Screeners
Section 701-7.0 - Suspension or Revocation of Juvenile Mental Health Screener

Universal Citation: 9 DE Admin Code 701-7.0

Current through Register Vol. 28, No. 3, September 1, 2024

7.1 The following outlines circumstances under which a credential may be suspended or revoked. DPBHS will monitor individuals and general facilities performing juvenile mental health screenings and detaining individuals for 24 - 72 hours under this regulation as specified in Section 6.0. Nothing in Section 6.0 relieves juvenile mental health screeners of the requirement to keep their own records on their work to detain or not detain individuals that they assess. Copies of the Emergency Detainment Request Form are sufficient documentation if the individual juvenile mental health screener or organization that supports these screeners keeps this information protected and confidential under federal law. Compliance with federal laws on this documentation is the responsibility of the individual who has been credentialed as a Juvenile Mental Health Screener.

7.1.1 Failure of any credentialed Juvenile Mental Health Screeners to be aware of, and operate in compliance with, the federal and state laws pertaining to protection of health records. Failure to comply with this requirement will result in immediate suspension of the Juvenile Mental Health Screener credential.

7.1.2 Suspension or revocation of a professional license will result in the immediate revocation of the Juvenile Mental Health Screener credential.

7.1.3 For licensed and unlicensed non-physician mental health professionals, loss of a current contract or employment relationship with a DSCYF operated facility, DSCYF crisis services, Delaware licensed medical hospital, or a Delaware licensed mental health hospital under contract with the DSCYF.

7.1.4 Failure to comply with the conflict of interest provisions of 14 Del.C. § 5004.

7.1.5 Due to concerns with performance, which can include inappropriate overuse of emergency detainments or failure to identify minors in need of detainment, as identified by the DSCYF reviewing psychiatrist or an Emergency Detention of Juveniles Review Board designated by the Secretary, which are uncorrected after written warning from the DSCYF.

7.1.6 Due to concerns with performance identified by a complaint or appeal submitted to DPBHS's Quality Assurance Department. The DPBHS Quality Assurance Department will refer any such complaints or appeals to DPBHS's reviewing psychiatrist for evaluation.

7.2 Compliance with notification of this revocation is the responsibility of the individual who has been credentialed as a Juvenile Mental Health Screener and, in the case of non-physicians, the eligible entity with whom the individual is affiliated.

7.3 Reinstatement of Juvenile Mental Health Screener status of an individual for whom a credential has been suspended or revoked will be at the discretion of DPBHS, in light of circumstances surrounding the original suspension or revocation.

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