Q6. 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?

  Required for all Required for most Required for some Not required Don't know No response Total
Number
of States
a. Pass inspection of physical plant 41 1 0 1 0 0 43
b. Provide evidence of safe child care practices 37 1 0 4 0 0 42
c. Have written procedures for reporting physical or sexual abuse or neglect of youth 43 0 0 0 0 0 43
d. Meet all staff qualifications requirements, including training 42 1 0 0 0 0 43
e. Perform staff background checks 43 0 0 0 0 0 43
f. Meet specified staff-to-child ratios 32 2 4 4 0 0 42
g. Provide evidence of appropriate educational programming 41 2 0 0 0 0 43
h. Have procedures in place for use of approved seclusion and restraint techniques 41 2 0 0 0 0 43
i. Have written suicide prevention plans 40 2 0 1 0 0 43