The department or county department providing aftercare shall make reasonable efforts to ensure all of the following regarding a youth on aftercare:

1. (1) The youth is free from discrimination based on race, national origin, color, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, disability, ethnicity, religion, or ancestry.
2. (2) The youth is protected from abuse or neglect.
3. (3) The youth is provided with accessible and usable services, and any reasonable accommodations and services needed to benefit from correctional programming.
4. (4) The youth is provided with an interpreter if his or her ability to speak, understand, read or write English is limited.
5. (5) The youth is placed in the youth’s parental home when this is consistent with correctional programming and the protection of the public.
6. (6) The youth is involved in planning his or her ongoing correctional program.
7. (7) The youth has appropriate access to the courts and legal counsel.
8. (8) The youth has access to appropriate department, county department and community programs and services consistent with the protection of the public and the youth’s needs.
9. (9) The youth has his or her educational, vocational, drug or alcohol abuse, health, mental health and other programming needs met.
10. (10) The youth may visit, use the mail and communicate with family members or an attorney within reasonable guidelines established by the department or a county department.
11. (11) The youth may participate in authorized recreational and religious activities.

History

History: Cr. Register, June, 2000, No. 534, eff. 7-1-00; CR 19-124: am. (1) Register June 2020 No. 774, eff. 7-1-20.