| (a) To maintain an active certification:
(1) a juvenile probation officer must complete 60 hours
of continuing education within the certification period;
(2) a juvenile supervision officer must complete 80
hours of continuing education within the certification period; and
(3) a community activities officer must complete 40
hours of continuing education within the certification period.
(b) For juvenile supervision officers, continuing education
received during each certification period must include:
(1) suicide prevention policies, including the suicide
prevention plan in residential facilities;
(2) training necessary to maintain current certification
in CPR, first aid, and the approved personal restraint technique;
(3) preventing, identifying, and reporting abuse, neglect,
and exploitation;
(4) verbal de-escalation policies, procedures, and
practices; and
(5) standards regarding use of personal and mechanical
restraints, including prohibited techniques and criteria for use.
(c) For community activities officers, continuing education
received during each certification period must include:
(1) training necessary to maintain current certification
in CPR and first aid;
(2) training necessary to maintain current certification
in the department's personal restraint technique, if the department
authorizes community activities officers to use personal restraints;
(3) preventing, identifying, and reporting abuse, neglect,
and exploitation;
(4) verbal de-escalation policies, procedures, and
practices; and
(5) standards regarding use of personal and mechanical
restraints, including prohibited techniques and criteria for use.
(d) For chief administrative officers and facility
administrators, continuing education must include a minimum of 20
hours of management topics. This requirement does not apply to the
certification period during which an individual is appointed as a
chief administrative officer or facility administrator.
(e) A maximum of 20 hours of continuing education that
exceeds the minimum requirement in a certification period may be applied
to the next certification period.
(f) Documentation of the required continuing education
must be submitted to TJJD through TJJD's certification system no later
than the last day of the certification period.
(g) Requirements in subsection (a) of this section
also apply in cases in which an officer's certification becomes inactive
but is later reactivated within the same certification period.
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