Florida Administrative Code › 63 - DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE › 63H - Staff Training › Chapter 63H-3 - STAFF TRAINING › Section 63H-3.001 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Academy: A department-approved virtual or
				physical training site where the second phase of certification training is
				provided by the Office of Talent, Leadership, and Culture.
(2) Academy Training: The coursework required
				of state detention and probation direct care staff that prepares them for
				certification.
(3) Adjunct
				Instructor: An instructor who has successfully completed the adjunct instructor
				course for a specific course or courses.
(4) Administrator: One whose primary
				responsibility is overseeing the daily operations of a facility, program, or
				judicial circuit.
(5) Advanced and
				Specialized: Professional development coursework that exceeds annual training
				requirements designed to enhance both individual and team skill sets.
(6) Central Communications Center (CCC): The
				unit located in department headquarters and within the Incident Operations
				Center (IOC) charged with receiving reports regarding incidents and events
				involving youth in department custody or under supervision and state and
				contracted employees from all department and provider facilities, programs
				funded in whole or in part, and offices or sites operated by the department, a
				provider, or grantee.
(7)
				Certification: The official process documenting that a direct care staff has
				fulfilled a minimum standard level of competency as indicated by the successful
				completion of Direct Care Pre-Service (DCPS) and Academy training for state
				direct care staff and Right Interactions (RI) Training for all state and
				provider direct care staff, to include all exams.
(8) Certified Staff: A designation given to
				direct care staff after the successful completion of a certification
				exam.
(9) Community-Based Program:
				A contracted or state-operated non-residential environment providing
				supervision of youth who have been identified to receive services within the
				community. This includes, but is not limited to, probation, supervised release,
				juvenile assessment centers, diversion programs, community-based conditional
				release programs, and screening and intake units. This does not include
				prevention programs.
(10) Detention
				Services: The branch within the department that oversees the secure facilities
				utilized for youth who are held pursuant to a court order or have been taken
				into custody for a violation of the law and when less restrictive interim
				placement alternatives prior to adjudication and disposition are not
				appropriate.
(11) Detention Staff:
				Staff assigned to work at a state-operated secure juvenile detention
				center.
(12) Direct Care
				Pre-Service Training: The coursework required of all state and provider direct
				care staff within 180 days of hire.
(13) Direct Care Staff: Staff having direct
				contact with youth for the purpose of providing supervision, custody, or
				control in a detention center, community-based program, probation unit, day
				treatment program, or residential commitment program within any restrictiveness
				level operated by the department or by a provider under contract with the
				department. Direct care staff does not include a licensed medical professional,
				mental health counselor, substance abuse counselor, or social services
				counselor whose primary responsibilities are to provide treatment to youth in a
				detention facility, delinquency program, or commitment program within any
				restrictiveness level which is operated by the department or by a provider
				under contract with the department.
(14) Facility: A contracted, state-, county-,
				or municipally operated secure environment that provides custody, care,
				supervision, or confinement of youth alleged or found to have committed a
				violation of law. This includes, but is not limited to, secure detention, law
				enforcement operated facilities, residential commitment programs, day treatment
				programs, and contracted facility-based conditional release programs.
(15) Field Training Officer (FTO): An
				employee who has successfully completed the Field Training Officer
				course.
(16) Hard Mechanical
				Restraints: Restraint devices constructed from inflexible material; for
				example, metal handcuffs, leg cuffs, and waist chains.
(17) In-Service Training: The on-going
				training that employees are required to receive in all but the first year of
				their employment. The training shall be documented and relevant to the
				employee's job responsibilities as set out in this rule.
(18) Instructor: An individual who has
				successfully completed Instructor Techniques or has received an exemption for a
				specific course from the Director of the Office of Talent, Leadership, and
				Culture.
(19) Instructor Techniques
				(IT): The 64-hour Instructor Techniques course.
(20) Lead Master Right Interactions (RI)
				Instructor: An advanced, qualified Master RI Instructor whose position reports
				directly to the Office of Talent, Leadership, and Culture and can certify RI
				Instructors.
(21) Master RI
				Instructor: An advanced, qualified instructor who assists and monitors RI
				Instructors in maintaining quality delivery of RI training and assists in the
				monitoring of the RI program.
(22)
				Medical Review: The review conducted by a licensed medical health professional
				after a RI physical intervention to determine if injuries or complications
				occurred as a result of the physical intervention or application of mechanical
				restraints and if the youth requires further medical treatment.
(23) Office of Talent, Leadership, and
				Culture: The office within the department that designates the number and
				location of the training programs and courses; develops, implements, evaluates,
				and updates the curriculum to be used in the training of juvenile justice
				staff; establishes timeframes for participation in and completion of training;
				develops, implements, scores, analyzes, maintains, and updates job-related
				examinations; manages the budget and contracts for all the training
				deliverables; and establishes uniform minimum job-related preservice and
				in-service training courses and examinations for juvenile justice
				staff.
(24) On-the-Job Training:
				Training on a specific and specialized task required of the staff member's
				position conducted by an FTO, certified officer, or a support staff as
				designated by their supervisor.
(25) Pre-Operational: The period of time from
				when a contract is initiated until the delivery of services
				commences.
(26) Pre-Service
				Training: The initial training for newly hired non-direct care state
				employees.
(27) Prevention
				Services: An office of the department that offers voluntary youth crime
				prevention programs throughout the state of Florida.
(28) Probation and Community Intervention:
				Assessment and intervention services provided to youth who are court-ordered to
				community supervision after the court has determined that the youth committed a
				delinquent act.
(29) Protective
				Action Response: The department's verbal and physical intervention program
				utilized by direct care staff in contracted, state-, county-, or municipally
				operated facilities and programs as defined in section   985.645, F.S.
(30) Right Interactions: The department
				approved Protective Action Response curriculum.
(31) Right Interactions Escalation Matrix:
				The matrix that governs the level of response an employee may apply to a
				youth's type of resistance.
(32)
				Right Interactions Training Plan: The form used to identify the specific
				techniques that employees shall be trained to use. The techniques identified on
				the plan are the only techniques employees shall be trained on and authorized
				to use.
(33) Remediation: The
				training provided to a staff member after an unsuccessful attempt to
				demonstrate competency in a subject.
(34) Residential Services: The branch within
				the department that oversees residential commitment programs, provides services
				through contracted providers, facilitates training and technical assistance for
				providers, and provides placement and classification services for youth
				adjudicated to commitment.
(35)
				Returning Staff: Trained (private provider) or certified (state) direct care
				staff who have separated from employment and are re-hired into the same
				position type.
(36) SkillPro: The
				department's on-line learning management system.
(37) Soft Mechanical Restraints: Restraint
				devices that are made with flexible materials; for example, Velcro, nylon flex
				cuffs (also known as zip cuffs), and leather.
(38) Supervisor: The individual responsible
				for the direct oversight of an employee and whose duties include but are not
				limited to scheduling, coaching, and completion of performance
				evaluations.
(39) Support Staff:
				Any state or provider staff that are not direct care.
(40) Taser: Any mechanism that is designed to
				emit or project an electronic, magnetic, or other type of charge or shock for
				the purpose of temporarily incapacitating a person.
(41) Training Coordinator: The individual
				designated to oversee and track the training of employees in a specific
				facility, program, or office.
(42)
				Training Entity: The Office of Talent, Leadership, and Culture.
(43) Training Roster: A document that
				identifies the title, hours, date, and signatures of all participants and the
				instructor of a course.
Rulemaking Authority  986.601,  985.64,  985.645 FS. Law
					 Implemented  985.601(8),  985.645 FS.
New 3-6-22, Amended
					 8-3-23.