Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The home shall develop house rules to help the
children develop self-control and conform to acceptable patterns of social behavior.
1. The home shall put the house rules in
writing.
2. The house rules shall
include a rationale for such rules and delineate the consequences for
infractions.
3. The home shall explain
its disciplinary practices individually with each child at the time the child is
placed in the home.
4. The house rules
shall be maintained on file in the home and made available to parents, as specified
in 3A:56-3.3.
5. The home shall post the
house rules in a conspicuous place in the home, accessible to those
served.
(b) Homes that use
time out as a means of disciplining children and to teach them self-control shall:
1. Develop written guidelines and criteria for
staff members using time out with children;
2. Discontinue the time out as soon as the child
is under instructional control;
3.
Ensure that the length of time for each time out does not exceed 30 minutes;
and
4. Ensure that the time out does not
take place in a closet, bathroom, unfinished basement, unfinished attic, stairway,
locked room or other unapproved area.
(c) The home shall assign responsibility for the
discipline, control, and supervision of children to staff members and shall not
delegate that responsibility to other children.
(d) The home shall not threaten discipline or
administer discipline to a child for the misbehavior of another child or group of
children.
(e) The home shall prohibit
the following types of punishment from being used on a child:
1. Any type or threat of physical hitting or the
use of corporal punishment;
2. Forced
physical exercise or forcing a child to take an uncomfortable position;
3. Subjection to verbal abuse, ridicule,
repetitious writing, humiliation, or other forms of degradation;
4. Deprivation of meals, snacks, sleep, mail,
clothing appropriate to the season or time of day, or verbal
communication;
5. Mechanical or chemical
restraint;
6. Assignment of overly
strenuous physical work;
7. Exclusion
from any essential program or treatment service, such as education or clinical
treatment;
8. Refusal of entry to the
residence;
9. Temporary suspension and
return of a child from the home to a parent, relative, foster home, or shelter,
unless approved by the placing agency; and
10. Seclusion in a locked room.
