5101:2-9-16 Visiting and communications.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 1, 2002.

Most current prior effective date: January 1, 1991.

(A)      A CRC, group home or residential parenting facility shall ensure that arrangements for visitation and communication between the child or teenage mother and family or friends are not in conflict with the policy statement required by rule 5101:2-5-13 of the Administrative Code or the child's or teenage mother's case plan and that such arrangements are documented in the service plan.


(B)      A CRC, group home or residential parenting facility shall allow a child or teenage mother to send and receive mail subject only to CRC, group home or the residential parenting facility facility's rules regarding contraband and directives from the child's or teenage mother's legal custodian when such rules and directives do not conflict with federal postal regulations.


(C)      A CRC, group home or residential parenting facility shall, in accordance with the service plan, allow a child or teenage mother access to a telephone which will permit the child or teenage mother to make and receive calls. A child's access to use of a telephone shall not be unreasonably denied.


(D)      A CRC, group home or residential parenting facility shall, in accordance with the service plan, provide reasonable conditions of privacy for visits and telephone contacts.


(E)      A CRC, group home or residential parenting facility shall allow each child to confer with his or her attorney and guardian AD LITEM, by telephone or at the facility, in private, at reasonable times desired by the child.


(F)      A CRC, group home or residential parenting facility shall designate space, which is not space in which children live, to serve as an area for private discussions and counseling sessions between children and staff.


Effective: September 1, 2002

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 9/1/2007

Certification: Certified Electronically

Date: 6/28/2002

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 5103.03

Rule Amplifies: 5103.02, 5103.03

Prior Effective Dates: December 30, 1966, October 1, 1986, January 1, 1991.