Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0250-04-08-.01 - DEFINITIONS
(1) "Administrator" means the director of the
Temporary Holding Resource or the Juvenile Detention Center.
(2) "Chemical Defense Agent" means any
product which is dispensed by means of an aerosol spray to control an
individual's combative and/or restrictive behavior.
(3) "Department" or "DCS" means the Tennessee
Department of Children's Services.
(4) "Facility" means a Temporary Holding
Resource or Juvenile Detention Center unless the context requires
otherwise.
(5) "High School Diploma
or Equivalent" means a document recognizing graduation from a legally approved
public or private institution, based upon the issuing state's required number
of academic credits. This may include a GED diploma or HiSET equivalent. A
special education diploma, statement of attendance, honorary diploma or
correspondence or video course is not considered an equivalent
alternative.
(6) "LEA" means Local
Education Agency.
(7) "Licensing
Office" means the Department of Children's Services Child Welfare Licensing
Office.
(8) "Physical Restraint"
means the use of body contact by staff upon a youth to restrict the youth's
freedom of movement or normal access to their body.
(9) "Qualified Medical Professional" means a
physician or other qualified health care professional who is an individual
qualified by education, training, licensure/regulation (when applicable), and
facility privileging (when applicable) who performs a professional service
within his/her scope of practice and independently reports that professional
service.
(10) "Qualified Mental
Health Professional" means a person with professional training, experience and
demonstrated competence in the treatment of mental illness, who shall be a
physician, psychologist, social worker, mental health counselor, nurse or other
qualified person.
(11) "Seclusion"
means the intentional, involuntary segregation of an individual from the rest
of the resident population for the purposes of preventing harm by the youth to
themselves or others; preventing harm to the youth by others; aiding in
de-escalation of violent behavior; or serving clinically defined
reasons.
(12) "Sentinel event"
means any unanticipated event resulting in death or serious physical or
psychological injury to a youth in the care of the facility.
(13) "Sight contact" means clear visual
contact between incarcerated adults and juveniles offenders within close
proximity to each other.
(14)
"Sound contact" means direct oral communication between incarcerated adults and
juvenile offenders.
(15) "Staff"
means full time and part time employees of a juvenile detention center or
temporary holding resource.
(16)
"Volunteer" means any person providing assistance to the agency without pay,
who may have direct and ongoing contact with youth equal to or greater than
twenty (20) hours per week.
(17)
"Youth" means a person under eighteen (18) years of age or a person under
nineteen (19) years of age in custody of the Department of Children's Services
or remaining under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.
Notes
Authority: T.C.A. ยงยง 37-5-105; 37-5-106; and 37-5-501, et. seq.
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