433B.175 - Administrator required to ensure training of employees who have direct contact with children; regulations.

433B.175  Administrator required to ensure training of employees who have direct contact with children; regulations.

1.  The Administrator shall ensure that each employee who comes into direct contact with children at any treatment facility and any other division facility into which a child may be committed by a court order receives training within 30 days after employment and annually thereafter. Such training must include, without limitation, instruction concerning:

(a) Controlling the behavior of children;

(b) Policies and procedures concerning the use of force and restraint on children;

(c) The rights of children in the facility;

(d) Suicide awareness and prevention;

(e) The administration of medication to children;

(f) Applicable state and federal constitutional and statutory rights of children in the facility;

(g) Policies and procedures concerning other matters affecting the health, welfare, safety and civil and other rights of children in the facility; and

(h) Such other matters as required by the Board.

2.  The Division shall adopt regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

(Added to NRS by 2007, 1194)