Or. Admin. Code § 419-490-0130 - Therapeutic Boarding Schools: Minimum Staffing Requirements
A therapeutic boarding school must meet all of the following requirements:
(1) Minimum staffing
patterns. The therapeutic boarding school must establish ratios of staff to
children in care that will provide adequate supervision, safety and protection
for children in care. The ratios must be adequate to protect child safety and
wellbeing for the type of program, location of program, the age and type of
children in care served, physical plant design, location and ability of the
supervisor to respond, electronic backup systems, and other means available to
ensure a high standard of supervision and protection. The minimum staffing
ratios outside normal sleeping hours are one direct care staff for each 10
children in care.
(2) Overnight
staffing requirements.
(a) A therapeutic
boarding school must have policies and procedures regarding overnight
supervision of children in care. The procedures must describe how staff must
monitor and ensure the safety of children in care during sleeping hours. If the
therapeutic boarding school houses more than one child in care to a bedroom or
uses dormitory-type sleeping arrangements, the procedure must specifically
address those living arrangements.
(b) During normal sleeping hours, the minimum
staffing requirement is one awake direct care staff on duty in the facility for
each 14 children in care.
(3) Additional staffing requirements for
emergency response.
(a) When there is only one
staff of the therapeutic boarding school on duty in a facility, there must be
additional staff immediately available in the event of an emergency, with a
maximum response time of 30 minutes. The names of additional staff who are
available for immediate response must be listed on the schedule for each time
period when only one staff person is on duty in a facility.
(b) One staff who is age 18 or over and
capable of taking appropriate action in an emergency must be on site at all
times when one or more child in care is present on the residential facility
premises.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 409.050, ORS 418.005, ORS 418.327 & ORS 418.240
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 418.327, ORS 409.010, ORS 418.005 & ORS 418.240
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