Indiana Administrative Code › Title 465 - DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SERVICES › Article 2 - CHILD WELFARE SERVICES › Rule 2 - Licensing of Child Placing Agencies › Section 2-6 - Personnel qualifications

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC 12-13-5-3
Affected: IC 12-17.2
Sec. 6.
Personnel Qualifications. Each child-placing agency shall
				  establish minimum qualifications for each classification of employee. The
				  following standards shall be used as a guide by each child-placing agency in
				  establishing minimum qualifications for the classifications of executive, case
				  work supervisor, case worker and worker in training and by the State Department
				  of Public Welfare in the licensing of each child-placing agency:
(a) Each child-placing agency employing less
				than four case workers should employ either an executive meeting the
				qualifications of Executive B as hereinafter set out, and case workers meeting
				the qualifications of Case Worker A as hereinafter set out, OR, an executive
				meeting the qualifications of Executive A as hereinafter set out, and case
				workers meeting the qualifications of Case Worker B as hereinafter set
				out.
(b) Each child-placing agency
				employing four or more case workers should employ either an executive meeting
				the qualifications of Executive B as hereinafter set out, a supervisor meeting
				the qualifications of Case Work Supervisor A as hereinafter set out, and case
				workers meeting the qualifications of Case Worker B as hereinafter set out, OR,
				an executive meeting the qualifications of Executive A as hereinafter set out,
				a case work supervisor meeting the qualifications of Case Work Supervisor B as
				hereinafter set out, and case workers meeting the qualifications of Case Worker
				B as hereinafter set out.
(c) Each
				child-placing agency employing a case work supervisor may also employ a minimum
				number of workers in training who meet the qualifications as hereinafter set
				out.
(d) The qualifications for
				Executives A and B, Case Work Supervisors A and B, Case Workers A and B, and
				Workers in Training should be:
(1) Executive
				B. The qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Executive B in
				a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four year
				college plus five years of paid experience in some field of work related to
				social work of which at least two years should have been in social work or in a
				responsible supervisory or administrative capacity in the field related to
				social work.
(2) Executive A. The
				qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Executive A in a
				child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four year college,
				plus one year of graduate training in a recognized school of social work
				including supervised case work in the field; plus two years of paid experience
				in the field of social work, one year of which should have been in a
				responsible supervisory or administrative capacity; except that a second year
				of graduate training or a Master's Degree from a recognized school of social
				work, including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for one
				year of the required two years of paid experience in the field of social
				work.
(3) Case Work Supervisor B.
				The qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Case Work
				Supervisor B in a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited
				four year college, plus one year of graduate training in a recognized school of
				social work including supervised case work in the field, plus two years of
				supervised paid case work experience, at least one year of which should have
				been in an approved child-placing agency; except that a second year of graduate
				training or a Master's Degree from a recognized school of social work,
				including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for one year of
				the required two years of supervised paid case work experience, but there
				should be no substitution for the required one year of supervised paid case
				work experience in an approved child-placing agency.
(4) Case Work Supervisor A. The
				qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Case Work Supervisor
				A in a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four year
				college, plus one year of graduate training in a recognized school of social
				work including supervised case work in the field, plus three years of paid
				social work experience, two years of which should have been supervised case
				work experience in an approved child-placing agency; except that a second year
				of graduate training or a Master's Degree from a recognized school of social
				work, including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for one
				of the required two years of paid case work experience in an approved
				child-placing agency.
(5) Case
				Worker B. The qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Case
				Worker B in a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four
				year college, plus five years of supervised paid case work experience, at least
				two years of which should have been in an approved child-placing agency; except
				that one year of graduate training in a recognized school of social work,
				including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for the
				required five years of supervised paid case work experience.
(6) Case Worker A. The qualifications of a
				person qualifying for the position of Case Worker A in a child-placing agency
				should be graduation from an accredited four year college, plus one year of
				graduate training in a recognized school of social work, including supervised
				case work in the field, plus two years of supervised paid case work experience,
				one year of which should have been in an approved child-placing agency; except
				that a second year of graduate training or a Master's Degree from a recognized
				school of social work, including supervised case work in the field, may be
				substituted for one year of the required two years of supervised paid case work
				experience, but there should be no substitution for the required one year of
				paid case work experience in an approved child-placing agency.
(7) Worker in Training. The qualifications of
				a person qualifying for the position of Worker in Training in a child-placing
				agency should be graduation from an accredited four year college.
Sec. 12, Ch. 185, Acts 1945; Burns 22-2427