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.