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5101:2-9-19
Personal belongings, hygiene, socialization, and education.
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 1, 2002.
(A) A residential facility shall allow
children or teenage mothers in
care to acquire, and to bring with them, personal belongings and property and to
decorate bedrooms consistent with the developmental stage of the child or
teenage mother , the child or
teenage mother's child's social, racial, cultural,
religious, or ethnic background and limitations as established by the
residential facility. Nothing in this rule shall be construed as preventing a
residential facility from supervising the use of a child's or
teenage mother's personal property, or from confiscating any
items which pose a clear health or safety risk, or which interfere with the
rights or privileges of others, or which are illegal to possess as a matter of
state law or local ordinance. An agency shall make reasonable efforts to have
the child present during a search of the child's personal belongings.
(B) A residential facility shall provide each
child or teenage mother , in
cooperation with the individual or agency holding custody of the child or
teenage mother , with clothing and footwear which is clean,
well-fitting, and seasonal. Clothing provided to a child or
teenage mother shall be deemed
considered to be a child or teenage
mother's child's personal property.
(C) Clothing provided by a residential facility
shall be appropriate to the child's or teenage
mother's age and sex.
(D) A residential facility shall provide each
child or teenage mother with
adequate personal toiletry supplies. These supplies shall be appropriate to the
child's or teenage mother's age,
sex, race, and cultural background and shall be deemed
considered to be the child's or teenage
mother's personal property.
(E) A residential facility shall provide
instruction on good habits of personal care, hygiene, and grooming. This
instruction shall be appropriate to each child's or
teenage mother's age, sex, race, cultural background, and need
for training.
(F) A residential facility may assign a child or
teenage mother daily tasks and work assignments within the residential
facility. Such assignments shall be of the type normally performed by a child or
teenage mother and shall not be beyond the child's or
teenage mother's developmental ability to perform.
(G) Daily tasks and work assignments made
pursuant to paragraph (F) of this rule shall not place the child or
teenage mother in physical danger and shall not interfere with
the child's or teenage mother's
studies, normal social development, or child care responsibilities of the
a teenage mother.
(H) A residential facility shall make
arrangements with the person or agency placing a child or
teenage mother for each school-age child or
teenage mother to attend a school that complies with the minimum
standards as prescribed by the state board of education and shall ensure that
the child or teenage mother
attends school in accordance with the child care agreement.
(I) In accordance with the child's service plan,
a residential facility shall encourage a child or
teenage mother to participate in community, school,
recreational, and cultural heritage activities which are appropriate to his age
and functioning level and shall, as is necessary and reasonable, arrange
appropriate transportation for the child or
teenage mother to such activities.
(J) A residential facility shall permit a child or
teenage mother to practice the chosen religious faith of the
child , teenage mother or their
parents or his or her parent(s) and shall not subject a
child or teenage mother to any
form of religious coercion.
(K) A child or teenage mother shall not be
baptized or submitted to any religious procedures without prior consent of the
child or teenage mother according to their age and functioning level and prior
approval of the child's or teenage mother's parent, guardian or custodian.
(L) A residential facility shall, as
appropriate, teach a child or teenage mother tasks and skills required for life
in the community.
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.
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