Florida Administrative Code › 63 - DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE › 63E - Residential Services › Chapter 63E-7 - OPERATION OF RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMS › Section 63E-7.105 - Residential Programming

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
A residential commitment program shall provide delinquency
				 interventions and treatment services that are gender-specific and that focus on
				 preparing youth to live responsibly in the community upon release from the
				 program. The program shall design its delinquency interventions and treatment
				 services and service delivery system based on the common characteristics of its
				 primary target population, including age, gender, and special needs, and their
				 impact on youths' responsivity to intervention or treatment. However, the
				 program shall individualize and coordinate the provision of delinquency
				 interventions and treatment services based on each youth's prioritized risk and
				 needs as identified through the RAY, and document services delivered in the
				 youth's individual management record. The program shall individualize treatment
				 services based upon each youth's diagnoses, symptoms, and needs, and document
				 treatment services in the youth's Individual Healthcare Record.
(1)
Delinquency Intervention
				Services.
(a) For each youth in its
				care, a residential commitment program shall implement a delinquency
				intervention model or strategy that is an evidence-based practice, promising
				practice, a practice with demonstrated effectiveness, or any other intervention
				approved by the department that addresses a priority need identified for that
				youth.
(b) Education and work
				experience shall be considered by the program when determining staff delivery
				of delinquency intervention services.
(c) A staff person responsible for the
				implementation of a specific delinquency intervention model, strategy or
				curriculum shall receive training in its effective implementation.
(d) Residential commitment programs shall
				assure structured, planned programming or activities at least 60% of a youth's
				awake hours. The program shall provide activities or services that include, at
				a minimum, the following:
1. Educational
				Services and Career and Vocational Programming. Educational services shall be
				provided pursuant to section   1003.52, F.S., the cooperative agreement between
				the applicable school district and the department, and any applicable
				provisions of the residential provider's contract with the department. Career
				and vocational programming services shall be provided pursuant to chapter
				63B-1, F.A.C., and any applicable provisions of the residential provider's
				contract with the department. The program shall make relevant facility training
				available to the educational and vocational staff, including program
				orientation, facility safety and security procedures, the program's behavior
				management system, and other topics that the program deems necessary to promote
				coordination of services, as well as safety and security.
2. Life and Social Skill Competency
				Development. The program shall provide delinquency interventions or instruction
				that focus on developing life and social skill competencies in youth. For
				purposes of this rule chapter, life skills are those skills that help youth to
				function more responsibly and successfully in everyday life situations,
				including social skills that specifically address interpersonal relationships.
				Non-clinical staff may implement only non-clinical life and social skills
				interventions or instruction. When skill training or instructional materials
				are specifically designed for use by clinical staff or the skill training is
				delivered in response to a youth's treatment plan, the skill training must be
				provided by clinicians.
a. The program shall
				provide life and social skills intervention services that address, at a
				minimum, identification and avoidance of high-risk situations that could
				endanger self or others, communication, interpersonal relationships and
				interactions, non-violent conflict resolution, anger management, and critical
				thinking, including problem-solving and decision-making.
b. Direct care staff shall model prosocial
				behaviors for youth throughout the course of each day in the program, reinforce
				delinquency interventions, and guide and re-direct youth toward prosocial
				behaviors and positive choices. Additionally, staff shall engage youth in
				constructive dialogue to peacefully resolve conflict when it occurs or, if
				imminent safety and security issues delay intervention to resolve the conflict,
				as a follow-up process after safety and security are
				restored.
3. Restorative
				Justice. The program shall provide activities or instruction intended to
				increase youths' awareness of and empathy for crime victims and survivors and
				increase youths' personal accountability for their criminal actions and harm to
				others. The department's Impact of Crime (IOC) curriculum can be used to
				satisfy the restorative justice requirement. These activities or instruction
				shall be planned or designed to:
a. Assist
				youth to accept responsibility for harm they have caused by their past criminal
				actions, challenging them to recognize and modify their irresponsible thinking,
				such as denying, minimizing, rationalizing, and blaming victims;
b. Teach youth about the impact of crime on
				victims, their families and their communities;
c. Expose youth to victims' perspectives
				through victim speakers, in person or on videotape or audiotape, or through
				victim impact statements, and engage youth in follow-up activities to process
				their reactions to each victim's accounting of how crime affected his or her
				life; and
d. Provide opportunities
				for youth to plan and participate in reparation activities intended to restore
				victims and communities, such as restitution activities and community service
				projects.
4. Community
				Projects. The program shall engage youth in community projects as learning
				experiences that promote competency development in youth and provide
				opportunities for them to give back to the community, such as projects that
				benefit less fortunate or victimized persons. If youth are restricted to the
				confines of the residential facility grounds, the program shall engage them in
				structured activities that can be accomplished on-site at the program while
				benefiting the community. Through collaborative community partnerships, the
				program shall identify projects that are needed and valued by the community.
				Although program staff shall be responsible for the direct supervision of youth
				while engaged in a community project, the program shall ensure that any
				community member identified to sponsor or oversee a project serves as a
				positive role model while providing guidance needed for youth to successfully
				complete the project. For youth to understand the value of community
				involvement, staff shall allow youth to give input into the selection of a
				community project, involve youth in planning the project, and de-brief with
				youth after completion of the project to process what they learned and how the
				community was benefited.
5.
				Recreation and Leisure Activities. The program shall provide a range of
				supervised, structured indoor and outdoor recreation and leisure activities for
				youth. These activities shall be based on the developmental levels and needs of
				youth in the program, as well as youths' input about their preferences and
				interests in various activities. The program shall offer recreation and leisure
				activities requiring varying degrees of mental and physical exertion, such as
				board games, creative arts, sports, and physical fitness activities. Activities
				shall be planned for youths' exposure to a variety of leisure and recreation
				choices, exploration of interests, constructive use of leisure time, and social
				and cognitive skill development, as well as to promote creativity, teamwork,
				healthy competition, mental stimulation, and physical fitness.
a. When engaging youth in active recreation
				and physical fitness activities, the program shall take the precautionary
				measures necessary to prevent over-exertion, heat stress, dehydration,
				frostbite, hypothermia, and exacerbation of existing illness or physical
				injury.
b. When planning for and
				engaging youth in active recreation and physical fitness activities, the
				program shall accommodate youths' limitations due to physical
				disabilities.
c. The program shall
				provide each youth with the opportunity to engage in large muscle exercise at
				least one hour daily. However, a youth shall not engage in such exercise when
				prohibited by medical contraindications or restrictions documented by a
				licensed healthcare professional or when a youth is exhibiting signs and
				symptoms of illness or physical injury pending a licensed healthcare
				professional's determination as to the necessity for medical restrictions.
				Additionally, a youth shall be prohibited from large muscle exercise when he or
				she is temporarily separated from the general population, including when placed
				on controlled observation or room restriction status. However, if a youth is
				restricted to a room, the program shall give the youth an opportunity for large
				muscle exercise as soon as is reasonably possible after the youth is
				reintegrated into the general population.
d. The program director shall ensure
				development and implementation of written procedures that establish the
				conditions, content, and supervision necessary for the use of books and other
				leisure reading materials, television programming, videos, movies, and video
				games in the program. Except for academic classroom materials approved by
				educational personnel, program staff shall screen or preview the content of
				books and other reading materials, television programming, videos, movies, and
				video games to prevent youth's access to content that promotes violence,
				criminal activity, sexual activity, or abuse. Program staff shall not allow
				youth to view any television program, video, or movie that is rated above PG-13
				unless it is previewed and pre-approved by the program director or his or her
				designee.