Ariz. Admin. Code § R6-5-7468 - Special Provisions for Shelter Care Facilities
A. General Requirements: A licensee operating
a shelter care facility shall comply with all requirements prescribed in this
Article, unless otherwise provided in this Section.
B. Admission Policy and Practice:
1. If a child has already been in shelter
care for more than 42 days, a licensee shall not admit the child into shelter
care at the licensee's facility, or permit the child to continue residing at
the licensee's facility, unless the licensee has:
a. Asked the child's placing agency or person
to have a multidisciplinary team:
i. Assess
the child through a review of the child's records or in person; and
ii. Develop a service plan for the child;
and
b. Documented the
request in the child's record.
2. When a child self-refers to a shelter care
facility, the licensee shall, within 24 hours of the child's arrival:
a. Notify the Department or the child's
guardian; and
b. Document the
placing agency or person's consent for the child's continued placement in a
written agreement with the placing agency or person, or by obtaining a court
order.
3. A licensee
does not have to obtain medical information and consents before or at the time
of a child's admission to a shelter care facility as prescribed in
R6-5-7438(E)(4) and (5), but shall document attempts to obtain the medical
consents from the placing agency or person within two days of the child's
admission.
4. At the time of a
child's admission, the licensee is not required to obtain the comprehensive
intake assessment required by
R6-5-7438(D), but shall work with the placing agency or person to compile information on and
assess the child's current social, behavioral, psychological, developmental,
health, legal, family, and educational status, as applicable to the
child.
C. Staff-child
ratio: A shelter care facility shall comply with the staff-child ratios
prescribed in
R6-5-7437, except that a licensee who accepts six or more children in care at a shelter
facility shall have at least one awake staff member on duty during sleeping
hours.
D. Staff development: In
addition to the training requirements prescribed in
R6-5-7433, a licensee shall train staff members who work at a shelter care facility to
recognize the signs and effects of:
1.
Substance use and abuse,
2. Common
childhood illness, and
3.
Communicable disease.
E.
Medical care: A shelter care facility does not have to provide or arrange a
medical examination as required by R6-5-7452(B)(1) unless the general health
assessment required by R6-5-7438(E)(9) indicates a need for further medical
attention.
F. Service planning:
Unless a child remains in continuous shelter care for more than 42 consecutive
days, a licensee operating a shelter care facility is not required to comply
with the
R6-5-7441 regarding service planning.
G.
Children's records: A licensee shall maintain a record for each child in a
shelter care facility as prescribed in
R6-5-7428 except the licensee need not:
1. Comply with
R6-5-7441, except as otherwise provided in subsection (F) above; or
2. Maintain treatment or clinical records and
reports or progress monitoring notes as required by
R6-5-7428(9)
and (13).
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