Alaska Administrative Code › Title 7 - Health and Social Services › Part 4 - Children's Services and Juvenile Justice › Chapter 50 - Community Care Licensing › Article 9 - Residential Psychiatric Treatment Centers › 7 AAC 50.820 - Orientation and training

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A residential
				  psychiatric treatment center shall have a comprehensive written training plan,
				  and shall submit it to the department, for the orientation, ongoing training,
				  and development of staff members.
(b) The orientation portion of the training
				  plan required by (a) of this section must provide that
(1) a new caregiver employee or volunteer who
				  has less than six months of previous full-time experience working with
				  emotionally disturbed persons in a residential setting is to receive at least
				  40 hours of orientation and training, as described in (4) of this subsection,
				  and at least 40 hours of child care experience in the facility, working under
				  supervision, before being assigned to independently carry out a particular
				  caregiving job;
(2) a new caregiver
				  employee or volunteer who has at least six months of previous full-time
				  experience working with emotionally disturbed persons in a residential setting
				  is to receive at least 20 hours of orientation and training, as described in
				  (4) of this subsection, and at least 20 hours of child care experience in the
				  facility, working under supervision, before being assigned to independently
				  carry out a particular caregiving job;
(3) a new administrative, clerical,
				  housekeeping, janitorial, or other support employee, if the employee's job
				  involves even minimal contact with children in care, is to receive orientation
				  and training as described in (4) of this subsection; for each job class, the
				  residential psychiatric treatment center shall determine the hours of training
				  and topics appropriate to the duties of persons in that job class, including
				  interaction or contact by those persons with children in care;
(4) orientation and initial training of
				  persons as required in (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection is to include, at a
				  minimum, orientation to
(A) the purpose,
				  goals, policies and procedures of the treatment center;
(B) working conditions and
				  regulations;
(C) responsibilities
				  and rights of employees or volunteers;
(D) the facility's policy and procedures for
				  resident and family grievances;
(E)
				  psychiatric treatment for children with severe mental, emotional or behavioral
				  disorders;
(F) the security plan of
				  the facility as described in
				  7 AAC 50.805; and
(G) the theory and practical application of
				  techniques for de-escalating violent, destructive, angry, or runaway behavior
				  by out-of-control residents while protecting the safety of the employee or
				  volunteer and of other residents; and
(5) the facility may acknowledge and give
				  credit for prior training that the employee or volunteer received, and that is
				  the equivalent of parts of the orientation and training required by the
				  facility's training plan, if the prior training occurred no more than two years
				  before the individual became an employee or volunteer.