| 4. | Does your agency operate or have any oversight over government-operated residential facilities providing juvenile justice or rehabilitation services to youth aged 12 to 17? | ||
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| 2. | (Click here to go to Question 18.) | ||
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| 5. | Are government-operated facilities, including county-operated facilities, required to have any of the following in order to provide residential juvenile justice or rehabilitation services to youth? |
| (Check one for each row.) |
| Required for all | Required for most | Required for some | Not required | Don't know | No response | ||
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| 5a. | State license to provide a residence for youth | ||||||
| 5b. | State license to provide specific services (e.g., correction or rehabilitation services) | ||||||
| 5c. | State certification to provide specific services (e.g., correction or rehabilitation services) | ||||||
| 5d. | State certification to provide education | ||||||
| 5e. | Independent accreditation to provide services, such as Council on Accreditation (COA), Commission on Accreditation Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) | ||||||
| 6. | When your agency develops or opens a government-operated facility that provides residential juvenile justice or rehabilitation services to youth, is the facility required to meet agency standards in any of the following areas? |
| (Check one for each row.) |
| Required for all | Required for most | Required for some | Not required | Don't know | No response | ||
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| 6a. | Pass inspection of physical plant | ||||||
| 6b. | Provide evidence of safe child care practices | ||||||
| 6c. | Have written procedures for reporting physical or sexual abuse or neglect of youth | ||||||
| 6d. | Meet all staff qualifications requirements, including training | ||||||
| 6e. | Perform staff background checks | ||||||
| 6f. | Meet specified staff-to-child ratios | ||||||
| 6g. | Provide evidence of appropriate educational programming | ||||||
| 6h. | Have procedures in place for use of approved seclusion and restraint techniques | ||||||
| 6i. | Have written suicide prevention plans | ||||||
| 7. | Are the licensing requirements or standards that your agency requires government-operated facilities to meet when they open the same or different for secure versus non-secure residential facilities that provide juvenile justice or rehabilitation services for youth? | ||
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| 1. | (Click here to go to Question 9.) | ||
| 2. | (Click here to go to Question 9.) | ||
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| 5. | (Click here to go to Question 9.) | ||
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| 8. | How do the licensing requirements or standards differ for secure versus non-secure facilities? |
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