6326.1 All staff training shall be specific to the ages and characteristics of the residents served by the independent living program.

6326.2 A new staff member of an independent living program shall receive pre-service training.

6326.3 The pre-service training required by § 6326.2 for new staff shall be for at least twenty (20) hours and include:

1. (a) The independent living program's administrative structure, procedures, and overall program;
2. (b) The independent living program's emergency plan as required by § 6335;
3. (c) Communicable diseases and universal precautions;
4. (d) Conflict resolution; and
5. (e) An introduction to daily living skills for adolescents and young adults.

6326.4 A staff member shall receive at least forty (40) hours of annual in-service training.

6326.5 Annual in-service training shall include:

1. (a) The independent living program's emergency plan as required by § 6335;
2. (b) The principles and practices of resident care, including appropriate training on age-specific and special physical, emotional, and medical needs;
3. (c) Life skills as set forth in § 6330;
4. (d) The independent living program's administrative structure;
5. (e) The independent living program's policies and procedures as set forth in § 6307.2(n);
6. (f) For the administrator, clinical director, social workers, and counselors appropriate techniques of behavior management and discipline pursuant to § 6347;

7. (g) For the administrator, clinical director, social workers, and counselors techniques and methodologies of crisis management;

8. (h) Child development;

9. (i) Methods of working with adolescents and young adults that take into account their culture and interests;
10. (j) Manifestation of and techniques for working with abused, neglected, and traumatized residents;
11. (k) The independent living program's discipline policy, including acceptable methods of discipline;
12. (l) Recognition and prevention of abuse, neglect, and risks to the resident's health or safety;
13. (m) The independent living program's procedures for reporting actual or alleged resident abuse or neglect, and actual or alleged risk to a resident's health or safety, as set forth in § 6304, including training on mandatory reporting, and policies and procedures relating to child abuse or neglect and risks to residents' health or safety;
14. (n) Recognition of substance abuse symptoms and treatment resources;
15. (o) Universal precautions;
16. (p) Recognition of mental health disorders and treatment resources;
17. (q) Suicide prevention;
18. (r) Depression; and
19. (s) Topics determined jointly by the independent living program and CFSA.

6326.6 An independent living program shall maintain records of attendance at training.

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 49 DCR 1591 (February 22, 2002).