Texas Administrative Code
Title 26 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Part 1 - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
Chapter 259 - COMMUNITY LIVING ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT SERVICES (CLASS) PROGRAM AND COMMUNITY FIRST CHOICE (CFC) SERVICES
Subchapter G - ADDITIONAL CMA REQUIREMENTS
Section 259.309 - Training of CMA Staff Persons and Volunteers
Universal Citation: 26 TX Admin Code ยง 259.309
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) A CMA must ensure that:
(1) a CMA staff person completes
training as described in the Community Living Assistance and Support Services
Provider Manual;
(2) a CMA staff
person completes training on the CLASS Program and CFC, including the
requirements of this chapter and the CLASS Program services and CFC services
described in §
259.7 of this chapter (relating to
Description of the CLASS Program and CFC Option); and
(3) a case manager completes a comprehensive
non-introductory person-centered service planning training developed or
approved by HHSC within six months after the case manager's date of hire.
(b) A CMA must:
(1) ensure that each CMA staff person and
volunteer:
(A) is trained on and
knowledgeable of:
(i) acts that constitute
abuse, neglect, and exploitation;
(ii) signs and symptoms of abuse, neglect,
and exploitation; and
(iii) methods
to prevent abuse, neglect, and exploitation;
(B) is instructed to report to DFPS
immediately, but not later than 24 hours, after having knowledge or suspicion
that an individual has been or is being abused, neglected, or exploited, by:
(i) calling the DFPS Abuse Hotline toll-free
telephone number, 1-800-252-5400; or
(ii) using the DFPS Abuse Hotline website;
and
(C) is provided with
the instructions described in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph in
writing;
(2) conduct the
activities described in paragraph (1)(A) - (C) of this subsection:
(A) within one year after the person's most
recent training on abuse, neglect, and exploitation and annually thereafter, if
the CMA staff person or volunteer was hired before July 1, 2019; or
(B) before assuming job duties and annually
thereafter, if the CMA staff person or volunteer is hired on or after July 1,
2019; and
(3) document:
(A) the name of the person who received the
training required by this subsection;
(B) the date the training was conducted; and
(C) the name of the person or
organization who conducted the training.
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