| (4) Youth with limited English proficiency shall be
provided with appropriate adaptations to the educational program as
recommended by the Language Proficiency Assessment Committee.
(5) An individual plan shall be developed or modified
for each youth. The plan shall be written in a language the youth
clearly understands. The plan shall address the reasons for admission
to the program, including providing strategies for intervention and
prevention of the admitting behavior, include a component that addresses
transition to the general campus population, and provide clearly written
objectives for completion of the program. The plan shall also take
into consideration any recommendations by a mental health specialist
to address the motivation for the behavior.
(6) TJJD procedural manuals will set out how the individual
plan and youth's progress will be reviewed and evaluated. This review
shall occur at least once every seven days.
(7) Youth in the moderate and intensive levels of the
intervention program are provided daily contact and weekly individual
sessions with the assigned case manager or other designated staff
for counseling and case management services.
(8) Staff shall immediately refer a youth to a mental
health professional if concerns exist as to the youth's mental health
status.
(9) Youth shall be provided with at least one hour
of large-muscle exercise seven days per week.
(10) Youth are allowed phone calls and visitation with
approved family members and other individuals according to program
visitation procedures.
(11) A youth in the moderate level of the program:
(A) earns privileges based on progress through the
program;
(B) shall be gradually reintegrated into campus programming
as soon as he/she demonstrates comprehension of the goals established
in the individual plan; and
(C) shall receive weekly mental health status exams
by mental health staff as long as the youth's movement and program
activities are restricted to the program unit. If deemed necessary
by mental health staff, youth shall receive psychological counseling.
Psychological counseling will be at the frequency determined appropriate
by the mental health professional providing the counseling.
(12) A youth in the intensive level of the program:
(A) earns privileges based on progress through the
program; and
(B) shall receive weekly mental health status exams
by mental health staff. If deemed necessary by mental health staff,
youth receive psychological counseling. Psychological counseling will
be at the frequency determined appropriate by the mental health professional
providing the counseling.
(13) For youth assigned to the primary and moderate
levels, staff not assigned to the intervention program shall review
each youth's progress at least once every 30 days to ensure the individual
plan is being implemented appropriately.
(14) For youth assigned to the intensive level, staff
not assigned to the intervention program shall review each youth's
progress when the youth has been at that level for 60 days and every
30 days thereafter to ensure the individual plan is being implemented
appropriately.
(15) A youth may remain in the moderate level of the
program for more than 90 days only if approved by the executive director
or designee.
(16) A youth may remain in the intensive level of the
program for more than 120 days only if approved by the executive director
or designee.
(17) In all levels of the program, mechanical restraints
may be used in a manner consistent with the use of such restraints
as provided by §380.9723 of this title. In the intensive level
of the program only, mechanical restraints may also be used in a manner
consistent with the use of such restraints in a security unit as provided
by §380.9723 of this title.
(i) Room Isolation and Security Unit.
(1) Youth may be referred to the security program while
assigned to the intervention program if the youth meets criteria in §380.9740
of this title. A security unit and program may be operated at the
location of each level of the intervention program.
(2) Room isolation may be used as necessary in accordance
with §380.9739 of this title.
(j) Criteria for Release from the Intervention Program.
A youth shall be released from the intervention program upon the earliest
of the following events:
(1) a determination by the executive director or designee
that the youth has:
(A) met the goals in his/her individual plan; and
(B) based on a totality of circumstances, demonstrated
an ability to safely transition to campus programming; or
(2) a decision by the executive director or designee
to return the youth to the youth's assigned dorm or transfer to an
alternative placement based on a recommendation by a mental health
professional due to the youth's mental health condition; or
(3) a decision by appropriate staff not to continue
the youth in the intervention program after an administrative transfer
of the youth to another high-restriction facility while assigned to
the intervention program.
(k) Family Notification. The youth's parent/guardian
shall be notified of the decision to place the youth in the intervention
program no later than the end of the next business day following the
day the decision was made. In accordance with §380.8705 of this
title, the notification may occur only with the youth's consent if
the youth is 18 years of age.
(l) Program Monitoring and Youth Rights.
(1) To ensure the intervention program is being implemented
according to the provisions of this rule, staff from facility administration
shall visit each program unit seven days per week. Staff from psychology
administration shall visit each program unit weekly.
(2) Youth rights staff or a designee shall visit each
program unit seven days per week to ensure that youth have access
to the youth grievance system.
(3) Staff are not required to visit a program unit
on days when there are no youth in that unit.
(m) Grievance Regarding Assessment of Progress. A youth
in the intervention program may address disagreement with the results
of an assessment of progress or may address the lack of opportunity
to demonstrate completion of requirements by filing a grievance in
accordance with §380.9331 of this title. The person assigned
to respond to the youth's grievance may not be a person involved in
the subject of the youth's grievance.
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