New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 3A - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Chapter 55 - MANUAL OF REQUIREMENTS FOR RESIDENTIAL CHILD CARE FACILITIES
Subchapter 10 - SERVICES FOR PREGNANT AND PARENTING ADOLESCENTS
Section 3A:55-10.8 - Parenting education

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 3A:55-10.8

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024

(a) The facility shall have a written curriculum or guidelines for providing parenting education that shall include the following topics:

1. Infant and child development including alternatives to punishment and options for toilet training;

2. Age-appropriate stimulation, games and other recreational activities for children;

3. Infant safety issues, such as care for the infant while bathing;

4. Providing for child care;

5. Health and nutritional care including an explanation of the Supplemental Feeding Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC);

6. Relationships with the adolescent mother's family;

7. Dealing with feelings about the adolescent's relationship with the infant's father; and

8. Options for placing the infant in a separate foster care placement or for adoption.

(b) The facility shall provide parenting education on a group or individual basis to each adolescent.

(c) The facility shall provide each adolescent at least one hour of parenting education each week until the facility documents that the adolescent has mastered skills or resolved issues specified in (a) above.

(d) The facility shall involve the adolescent in shopping for her infant's clothes and other necessities.

(e) The facility shall provide information to the adolescent on preventing child abuse and neglect, including, but not limited to:

1. Discussion of mandatory reporting;

2. How to identify and report abuse and neglect; and

3. Resources to help parents avoid abusing or neglecting their children.

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