Washington Administrative Code
Title 388 - Social and Health Services, Department of
CHILD CARE AGENCIES/LICENSING REQUIREMENTS
Chapter 388-145 - Licensing requirements for group care facilities and services
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES AND TOYS
Managing Records and Reporting
Section 388-145-1545 - What are my reporting requirements in my licensed facility serving runaway or homeless youth?

(a) Within seventy-two hours (preferably twenty-four hours), notify the parent by telephone or other reasonable means unless compelling reasons exist. You must provide the youth's whereabouts, give a description of the youth's physical and emotional condition, and report the circumstances surrounding the youth's contact with your facility. You must document this notification in the youth's file.

(b) If compelling reasons exist, you must notify children's administration intake. This includes reason to believe notifying the youth's parents will result in abuse or neglect of the youth as defined in RCW 26.44.020.

(c) You or your staff must also review the public information on missing youth made available by the Washington state patrol at least once every eight hours while a youth is present at your facility. If a youth is listed as missing, you must immediately notify children's administration intake with the information listed in (1) (a) above.