Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 9, September 1, 2024
A residential care agency must meet all of the following
requirements:
(1) Minimum staffing
patterns. The residential care agency must establish staff-to-child ratios that
will provide adequate supervision and protection for children in care. The
ratios must be adequate for the type of program, location of program, the age
and type of children in care served, physical plant design, location and
ability of the supervisor to respond, electronic backup systems, and other
means available to ensure a high standard of supervision and protection. The
minimum staffing ratios are as follows:
(a)
For children in care who are under 30 months of age: one direct care staff for
each four children in care.
(b) For
children in care who are 30 months of age or older and either less than six
years of age or non-ambulatory, one direct care staff for each six children in
care.
(c) For children in care who
are six years of age or older, one direct care staff for each seven children in
care.
(2) Overnight
staffing requirements.
(a) A residential care
agency must have policies and procedures regarding overnight supervision of
children in care. The procedures must describe how staff must monitor and
ensure the safety of children in care during sleeping hours. If the residential
care agency houses more than one child in care to a bedroom or uses
dormitory-type sleeping arrangements, the procedure must specifically address
those living arrangements.
(b)
During normal sleeping hours, the minimum staffing requirement is one awake
direct care staff on duty in the facility for each 10 children in
care.
(3) Additional
staffing requirements for emergency response.
(a) When there is only one staff of the
residential care agency on duty in the facility, there must be additional staff
immediately available in the event of an emergency, with a maximum response
time of 30 minutes.
(b) One staff
who is age 18 or over and capable of taking appropriate action in an emergency
must be on site at all times when one or more child in care is present on the
residential facility premises.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
409.050, ORS
418.005, ORS
418.327 & ORS
418.240
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
418.205 -
418.327
