Purpose and Applicability

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Purpose and Applicability

• Standards 2960.0130-2960.0210 apply to all Group
  Residential Settings.

Subpart 39. Group residential setting. "Group
residential setting" means a residential program
that offers care to residents and extended
jurisdiction juveniles in which the license
holder does not live at the licensed facility.
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Exemptions

• Transitional services (Housing)
• Shelter services (placement up to 90 days)

Subpart 4. Exemptions. The exemptions in items A
and B apply. A. Transitional services programs
certified under part 2960.0500 are exempt from
the requirements of parts 2960.0130 to 2960.0220.
B. Shelter services programs certified under
parts 2960.0510 to 2960.0530 are exempt from the
requirements of parts 2960.0130 to 2960.0220.
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2960.0140 - Quality Assurance

• Resident and Family Satisfaction Survey
• Treatment Plan Compliance

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Subpart 1 - Satisfaction Survey

• Random sample possible
• Youth
• Parents
• Guardians
• Referring agency

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Satisfaction Survey

• Evaluate
• Daily care support of residents
• Assess physical, emotional well-being of youth
• Resident safety
• Education of resident, inc IEP

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Satisfaction Survey

• Affects of treatment on the youth youths
  family
• Support of Family Community
• Reintegration
• Support to obtain needed Medical, dental and MH
  care

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Subpart 2Treatment Plan Compliance

• After discharge document
• Services provided by the license
• holder or other providers
• Achievement of identified
• treatment plan goals and
• objectives.

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2960.0150Personnel Policies

• Written Job Descriptions
• Professional Licensure
• Staffing Plan
• Chief Administrator
• Program Director-FT, capacity over 24
• Privacy Issues

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Subpart 3 - Staffing Plan

• Written Approval from licensing agency
• Meets the needs of residents in placement

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Subpart 3-EGender Specific Contingency Plan

• Immediate response by on-call staff of the same
  gender
• When necessary to ensure privacy
• When indicated by resident needs assessment
• When necessary to provide appropriate care to
  sexual abuse victims.

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Subpart 3E (3)Contingency Plan Documentation

• Violations
• Circumstance requiring same gender
  supervision
• Reason same gender supervision was not
  provided
• What the facility will do to prevent a
• recurrence
• Two year record retention

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Subpart 3GStaffing Plan

• Staff-Resident ratio- 112 awake hours
• Staff-Resident ratio- 125 non-awake hours

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Subpart 3-JStaffing Plan

• Staffing plan must be appropriate for the
  services offered
• Program Services
• Physical plant features/characteristics
• Condition of the resident
• Age of resident served
• Resident physical and mental health
• Vulnerability of resident

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Staffing Plan

• Risk of absconding behavior
• Gender of resident
• Disability of the resident
• Self-preservation capability in an emergency
• Types of education services offered the resident
• Degree of threat to others

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2060.0150 Subpart 4Personnel Training

• Annual Training Plan
• Sufficient to accomplish duties
• Direct contact staff 24 hours yearly (50 or
  more skill development)
• Part-time staff1 hour of training for every 50
  hours worked

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Training-Orientation

• Facility must provide training in the following
  areas
• Culturally competent care
• Download DHS bulletin
• Racial bias and racism issues

Reference DHS Publication Guidelines for
Culturally Competent Organizations
http//www.dhs.state.mn.us Publications ? Fact
Sheets ? Organization and Management ? Culturally
Competent Organizations http//www.dhs.state.mn.u
s/main/groups/agencywide/documents/pub/DHS_id_0164
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Training-Orientation

• Gender issues, including the psychosocial
  development of boys and girls
• Sexual orientation issues
• Physical, mental, sensory, and health related
  disabilities, bias and discrimination.

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2960.0160Admissions Policies and Process

• Criteria consistent with
• Statement of Intended Use
• License/Certification
• Describe
• Age
• Gender
• Limitations
• Primary needs

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Admissions Policies and Process

• Document Ability to meet resident needs
• Danger to self or others
• Relevant screening/assessment completion
• Ability to meet cultural, emotional, mental
  health, physical needs

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Subpart 2EAdmissions Policies and Process

• Sex Offenders Assess necessary precautions
• Individual sleeping room
• Supervision
• Protection of other residents, community
• and staff
• Vulnerability of other residents

Subpart 67. Sex offender. "Sex offender" means a
person who has engaged in, or attempted to engage
in, criminal sexual behavior.
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C.D. Definitions

• Subpart 12. Chemical abuse. "Chemical abuse"
  means a pattern of inappropriate and harmful
  chemical use as defined in subpart 41. Chemical
  abuse includes inappropriate and harmful patterns
  of chemical use that are associated with specific
  situations in an individual's life such as loss
  of a job, death of a loved one, or sudden change
  in life circumstances. Chemical abuse does not
  involve a pattern of pathological use, but it may
  progress to pathological use.

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C.D. Definitions

• Subpart 13. Chemical dependency. "Chemical
  dependency" means a pattern of pathological use
  as defined in subpart 52, accompanied by the
  physical manifestations of increased tolerance to
  the chemical or chemicals being used or
  withdrawal syndrome following cessation of
  chemical use.

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Subpart 2EAdmissions Policies and Process

• Chemical Abuser/Chemically Dependent
• Chemical Use Assessment must be conducted by
  credentialed staff
• Assessment Summary written by credentialed staff
  indicating if needs can be met by the license
  holder.

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Subpart 4Admissions Policies and Process

• Information to residents
• Copy of facility rules.
• Description of programs offered provided within
  the first 24 hours.

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Admissions Policies and Process

• Facility rules must be read to those incapable of
  understanding written documents.
• Facility must consider the languages a resident
  understands and reads and the
• residents age when presenting information to the
  resident.

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Classification

• Approved classification plan
• Age
• Developmental level
• Gender
• Physical assault
• Run risk

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2960.0170 - Classification

• House residents consistent with statement of
  intended use
• Delinquent sophistication
• Private sleeping and toilet facilities by gender

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2960.0180 - Policy Manual

• Review by licensing agency
• Available to all staff within the facility

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Subpart 2 - Facility Programs

• Written program descriptions
• Measurable program outcomes
• Minimum components
• On-site education - 12 months
• Social Services (individual,
• group and family counseling)
• Have available trained staff to council children
  upon request or at a time of crisis

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Subpart 2BFacility Programs Treatment Plans

• Begin within 10 days of admission
• If the resident's case plan or screening or
  assessment results indicates that the needs of
  the resident cannot be met by the license holder,
  the license holder must document contact with the
  placement agency

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Treatment Plans

• and notify the placement agency of the results of
  the screening or assessment and tell the
  placement agency that the program is not able to
  meet the resident's needs.

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Facility Programs Treatment Plans

• Review monthly or more
• Document involvement of community treatment,
  education, and care resources related to case
  plan/treatment plan
• Designate a staff assignment to assure regular
  face to face contact
• Written progress reports to parents upon request
• Written educational reports to the district of
  residence

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Subpart 3 - Records and Reports

• Comply with data collection requirements (M.S.
  253C.01)
• Maintain records (organized retrievable
  confidential manner)
• Admission and release
• Resident property
• Special occurrence
• Training
• Food Service
• Satisfaction survey

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Records and Reports

• Daily logs
• Services provided, outcomes
• Program evaluation
• Medical and dental records
• Disciplinary records
• Education records

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2060.0190 - Discharge and Aftercare

• Transition services plan for each resident
• Community resources
• Release environment Strategies for potential
  challenges
• Input from resident, family, providing school
  district, support services persons
• Plan given to resident, school, and new facility

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Discharge and Aftercare

• Transition plan elements
• Housing, recreation and leisure
• Education, vocational rehabilitation and training
• Budget plan
• Transportation needs
• Treatment Services
• Health Services
• Personal Safety

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Subpart 2Treatment Plan Compliance

• Document how residents stay accomplished
  treatment plan goals and objectives
• Identify which services, including education,
  were provided directly or indirectly to the
  resident and who provided the services and
• Identify the services, including education,
  that were recommended in the resident's case plan
  or treatment plan but were not provided to the
  resident.

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2060.0200 - Physical Plant

• All in good repair
• Written policies and procedures Fire
  prevention and Safety protocol
• Written maintenance policies and procedures
  Detecting reporting and correcting
• Smoking policy (M.S. 144.411 - 144.417)

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2060.0210Facility and Equipment Codes

• Conformity with all applicable health, fire,
  zoning and building codes
• Permanent record of insurance coverage, OSHA
  reports, incident reports, and health, fire and
  other safety inspections
• New Corrections certified programs must meet
  the Department of Corrections construction
  standards