Current through August 31, 2023
01.
Family Support Principles.
These family support principles are intended to serve as a guide for certified
family support partners and those who are working toward full certification in
their everyday professional conduct that includes various roles, relationships,
and levels of responsibilities within their jobs. (3-17-22)
02.
Certified Family Support Partner
Integrity. In order to maintain high standards of competency and
integrity, a certified family support partner must: (3-17-22)
a. Apply the principles of resiliency,
wellness and recovery, or both, family-driven approach, youth-guided or
youth-driven approach, consumer-driven approach, and peer-to-peer
mutual-learning principles in every day interactions with family members;
(3-17-22)
b. Promote the family
member's ethical decision-making and personal responsibility consistent with
that family member's culture, values, and beliefs; (3-17-22)
c. Promote the family members' voices and the
articulation of their values in planning and evaluating children's behavioral
health related issues; (3-17-22)
d.
Teach, mentor, coach, and support family members to articulate goals that
reflect each family member's current needs and strengths; (3-17-22)
e. Demonstrate respect for the cultural-based
values of the family members engaged in peer support; (3-17-22)
f. Communicate information in ways that are
both developmentally and culturally appropriate; (3-17-22)
g. Empower family members to be fully
informed in preparing to make decisions and understand the implications of
these decisions; (3-17-22)
h.
Maintain high standards of professional competence and integrity;
(3-17-22)
i. Abstain from
discriminating against or refusing services to anyone on the basis of race,
ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion/spirituality, culture, national
origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, language preference,
socioeconomic status, or disability; (3-17-22)
j. Only assist family members whose concerns
are within one's competency as determined by one's education, training,
experience, and on-going supervision or consultation; (3-17-22)
k. Abstain from establishing or maintaining a
relationship for the sole purpose of financial remuneration to self or the
agency with which one is associated; and (3-17-22)
l. Terminate a relationship when it becomes
reasonably clear that the peer relationship is no longer the desire of the
family member. (3-17-22)
03.
Certified Family Support Partner
Safety. In order to maintain the safety of all family members involved
with family support services, a certified family support partner must:
(3-17-22)
a. Comply with all laws and
regulations applicable to the jurisdiction in which the peer support services
are provided, including confidentiality; (3-17-22)
b. Maintain confidentiality in personal and
professional communication and ensure that family members have authorized the
use or release of any and all information about themselves or family members
for whom they have legal authority, including verbal statements, writings, or
re-release of documents; (3-17-22)
c. Respect the privacy of partner agencies
and not distribute internal or draft documents or share private, internal
conversations; (3-17-22)
d. When
complying with laws and regulations involving mandatory reporting of harm,
abuse, or neglect, make every effort to involve the family members in the
planning for services and ensure that no further harm is done to family members
as the result of the reporting; (3-17-22)
e. Discuss and explain to family members the
rights, roles, expectations, benefits, and limitations of the peer support
process; (3-17-22)
f. Avoid
ambiguity in the relationship with family members and ensure clarity of the
certified family support partner's role at all times; (3-17-22)
g. Maintain a positive relationship with
family members, refraining from premature or unannounced ceasing of the
relationship until a reasonable alternative arrangement is made for
continuation of similar peer support services; (3-17-22)
h. Abstain from engaging in intimate,
emotional, or physical relationships with family members engaged in a peer
support relationship; (3-17-22)
i.
Neither offer nor accept gifts, other than token gifts, related to the
professional service of peer support, including personal barter services,
payment for referrals, or other remunerations; and (3-17-22)
j. Abstain from engaging in personal
financial transactions with family members engaged in a peer support
relationship. (3-17-22)
04.
Certified Family Support Partner
Professional Responsibility. Through educational activities, supervision
and personal commitment, a certified family support partner must: (3-17-22)
a. Stay informed and up-to-date with regard
to the research, policy, and developments in the field of parent/peer support
and children's emotional, developmental, behavioral (including substance use),
or mental health which relates to one's own practice area and children's
general health and wellbeing; (3-17-22)
b. Engage in helping relationships that
include skills-building, not exceeding one's scope of practice, experience,
training, education, or competence; (3-17-22)
c. Perform or hold oneself out as competent
to perform only peer services not beyond one's education, training, experience,
or competence; (3-17-22)
d. Seek
appropriate professional supervision/consultation or assistance for one's
personal problems or conflicts that may impair or affect work/volunteer
performance or judgment; (3-17-22)
e. File a complaint with the certification
body for Family Support Partners when one has reason to believe that another
family support partner is, or has been, engaged in conduct that violates the
law or these rules. Making a complaint to the certification body for Family
Support Partners is an additional requirement, not a substitute for, or
alternative to, any duty of filing reports required by statute or regulation;
(3-17-22)
f. Refrain from
distorting, misusing, or misrepresenting one's experience, knowledge, skills,
or research findings; (3-17-22)
g.
Refrain from financially or professionally exploiting a colleague or
representing a colleague's work, associated with the provision of peer support
or the profession of peer support, as one's own; (3-17-22)
h. In the role of a supervisor/consultant, be
responsible for maintaining the quality of one's own supervisory/consultation
skills and obtaining supervision/consultation for work as a
supervisor/consultant; (3-17-22)
i.
In the role of a researcher, be aware of and comply with federal and state laws
and regulations, agency regulations, and professional standards governing the
conduct of research, including ensuring the participants' complete informed
consent for participating or declining to participate in a study; and
(3-17-22)
j. In the role as a
volunteer, member, or employee of an organization, give credit to persons for
published or unpublished original ideas, take reasonable precautions to ensure
that one's employer or affiliate organization promotes and advertises materials
accurately and factually. (3-17-22)
05.
Ethics Training. A certified
family support partner must complete ethics training at least once per year,
and maintain personal documentation of completed ethics training.
(3-17-22)
06.
Comply with
Code of Ethics. A certified family support partner must understand and
comply with these rules and Idaho's Certified Family Support Partners Code of
Ethics. (3-17-22)