31 Miss. Code. R. 9-2.2 - Admission/Intake
1. Written admission policies and procedures
of the facility shall be approved by the Unit in accordance with goals and
purposes of the facility and Mississippi statutes.
2. Youth are processed into the facility in a
timely manner. Intake for the juvenile justice system is available either
on-site or through on-call arrangements twenty-four hours a day, seven days a
week.
3. A youth court judge has
the authority to release or conditionally release youth. Intake staff have the
authority to release a youth upon notification to the youth court judge.
4. Intake staff use a race and
gender-neutral Risk Assessment Instrument (RAI) to determine the appropriate
pre-dispositional placement or status necessary to accomplish the purposes of
detention (ensuring appearance in court and preventing re-offending). Youth
eligible for detention are placed in the least restrictive alternative needed
to accomplish those purposes (e.g., a non-secure setting, home supervision,
and/or home electronic monitoring).
5. For youth with limited English
proficiency, staff make arrangements for intake to be conducted in the youth's
native language in a timely manner.
6. The facility assesses the frequency with
which it has contact with individuals with limited English proficiency from
different language groups.
7. The
facility establishes a process and informs families and guardians about the
ways in which they can communicate with the facility about their children.
8. The facility follows a process
for providing orientation to parents, guardians and caregivers within seven
days of a youth's admission to the facility.
9. Parents and guardians receive orientation
materials in the primary language spoken in the household, or the facility
makes other accommodations to ensure that parents and guardians with limited
English proficiency understand how the facility operates.
10. The facility does not charge for
interpretation services.
11. When
communicating with parents or guardians of detained youth, staff do not rely on
youth to serve as interpreters in non-emergency situations.
12. During the intake process, youth receive
information explaining, in an age-appropriate fashion, the agency's zero
tolerance policy regarding sexual abuse and sexual harassment and how to report
incidents or suspicions of sexual abuse or sexual harassment.
13. Within 10 days of admission, the facility
provides and documents comprehensive age-appropriate education to youth either
in person or through video regarding their rights to be free from sexual abuse
and sexual harassment and to be free from retaliation for reporting such
incidents, and regarding agency policies and procedures for responding to such
incidents.
14. Admission procedures
and practice shall include but not be limited to:
a. Collecting identifying information.
b. Verifying the legal authority
to detain.
c. Completion of a
health assessment. A description of bruises, abrasions, symptoms of illness and
current medications shall be documented.
d. Assessing the juvenile's suicide risk
potential.
e. Documenting the
notification of the juvenile's parents or legal guardian and legal custodian,
if not the parent or legal guardian.
f. Assisting the juvenile in contacting the
juvenile's family at the time of admission.
g. Conducting an intake interview. Designated
staff members shall conduct each intake interview.
h. Providing an orientation to the facility
in a manner which is understandable to the juvenile. Completion of the
orientation and receipt of all written orientation materials shall be
documented by a signed statement from the juvenile.
i. Notifying the appropriate intake officer.
j. Searching the juvenile and the
juvenile's possessions.
k.
Documenting the juvenile's clothing and personal possessions and disposition. A
written inventory of all money and personal property of the juvenile shall be
signed by the juvenile and the admitting staff member and kept with the
juvenile's record. If the juvenile refuses to sign the inventory, the refusal
shall be documented in the juvenile's record.
l. Distributing personal hygiene items.
m. Providing for a shower and hair
care.
n. Issuing clean, laundered
clothing, if necessary.
o.
Assigning the juvenile to a sleeping room.
15. No juvenile shall be admitted who shows
evidence of being seriously ill, injured, intoxicated or physically or mentally
impaired until the juvenile is examined and approved for admission by a
qualified health professional.
16.
A facility shall not accept permanent legal guardianship of a
juvenile.
Notes
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