Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Title 505 - JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY CABINET - DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE
Chapter 2 - Juvenile Detention Facilities
Section 505 KAR 2:100 - Training and staff development
Universal Citation: 505 KY Admin Regs Service 2:100
Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 6, December 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 15A.210-15A.240
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 15A.210 mandates that the Department of Juvenile Justice issue administrative regulations governing juvenile detention centers and juvenile holding facilities.
Section 1. For the purposes of this administrative regulation:
(1) "Administrative-management personnel"
includes superintendents, deputy or assistant superintendents, business
managers, personnel directors, youth care supervisors and shift
supervisors;
(2) "Clerical support
employee" is defined as an employee who has minimum contact with juveniles
including, but not limited to, secretaries, clerks, typists, computer and
warehouse personnel, accountants and personnel staff;
(3) "Professional specialist" includes, but
is not limited to case managers, counselors, social workers, psychologists,
teachers, librarians, medical personnel, chaplains, and recreation
specialists;
(4) "Support employee"
is defined as an employee who has regular or daily contact with juveniles
including, but not limited to food, service, industry work supervisors, farm
work supervisors, maintenance work supervisors;
(5) "Training" is defined as an organized,
planned and evaluated activity designed to achieve specific learning
objectives;
(6) "Youth care and
supervision staff" is defined as all staff assigned to full-time youth care or
supervision duties.
Section 2.
(1) The facility shall adopt
and enforce written policies and procedures which:
(a) Provide that the facility's training
program for all employees is planned, coordinated and implemented by a
qualified employee at the supervisory level who has completed forty (40) hours
of training as a trainer. The program shall be reviewed annually;
(b) Provide that all training programs are
presented by persons who are qualified in the areas in which they are
conducting training;
(c) Provide
that all new full-time employees, who have youth care responsibilities, shall
receive forty (40) hours of orientation and training before being independently
assigned to a particular job. This orientation and training shall include, at a
minimum, orientation to the purpose, goals, policies and procedures of the
institution and parent agency; working conditions and regulations;
responsibilities and rights of employees; and an overview of the juvenile
justice and correctional field. Depending upon the employee and the
requirements of the particular job, the orientation and training may include
some preparatory instruction related to the particular job. There shall be
provisions for acknowledging and giving credit for prior training
received;
(d) Provide that all
clerical and support employees who have minimal contact with juveniles receive
an additional sixteen (16) hours of training during the first year of
employment and sixteen (16) hours of training each year thereafter;
(e) Provide that all support employees who
have regular or daily juvenile contact receive an additional forty (40) hours
of training during their first year of employment and forty (40) hours of
training each subsequent year of employment;
(f) Provide that all professional specialist
employees who have juvenile contact receive an additional forty (40) hours of
training during their first year of employment, and forty (40) hours of
training each subsequent year of employment;
(g) Provide that all new youth care and
supervision staff receive an additional forty (40) hours of training during
their first year of employment and forty (40) hours of training each subsequent
year of employment. At a minimum, this training shall cover the following
areas:
1. Security procedures;
2. Supervision of juveniles;
3. Use of force regulations and restraint
techniques;
4. Report
writing;
5. Juvenile rules and
regulations;
6. Rights and
responsibilities of juveniles;
7.
Fire and emergency safety procedures;
8. Key control;
9. Interpersonal relations;
10. Social and cultural lifestyles of the
juvenile population;
11. Youth
growth and development;
12.
Communication skills;
13. First
aid;
14. Cardiopulmonary
resuscitation; and
15. Suicide
precautions and behavioral management techniques.
(h) Provide that all administrative and
managerial staff, except elected jailers, receive forty (40) hours of training
during their first year of employment, and forty (40) hours of training each
subsequent year of employment. This training shall cover the following areas,
at a minimum:
1. General management and
related subjects;
2. Labor
law;
3. Employee-management
relations;
4. The interaction of
elements of the criminal and juvenile justice systems; and
5. Relationships with other service
agencies.
(2)
Where there is a full-time training director, there shall be an advisory
training committee composed of the training director and a representative of
each department.
(3) All part-time
staff and volunteers working less than forty (40) hours per week shall receive
training appropriate to their assignments, volunteers working the same schedule
as fulltime, paid staff receive the same training as full-time staff.
(4) Personnel who work with juveniles
confined separately from the total population shall receive specialized
training.
(5) Training may occur
on-site, at an academy or training center, at an institution of higher
learning, through contract service, at professional meetings, or through
closely supervised on-the-job training which includes staff meetings at the
facility.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 15A.210
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