EFFECTIVE DATE: September 1, 2002.
Most current prior effective date: January 1, 1991.
(A) A CRC,
group home or residential parenting
facility shall isolate residents only in accordance with CRC,
group home or residential parenting facility the facility's written
policy required pursuant to rule 5101:2-5-13 of the Administrative Code, which
has received the prior approval of ODHS
the Ohio department of job and family services . Only one child shall
be placed in an isolation room at a time. Prior approval of ODHS
shall be the isolation room by ODJFS is required and is contingent
upon an inspection of the room.
(B) A child or
teenage mother shall not be isolated longer than thirty
continuous minutes without written supervisory approval.
(C) A child or
teenage mother shall not be isolated for longer than one
continuous hour and no longer than a total of two hours in any twenty-four hour
period.
(D) A CRC, group
home or residential parenting
facility shall ensure that the use of
isolation is used exclusively for the behavior management of a child or
teenage mother who is out of control.
(E) Any room used for isolation shall be
lighted, well-ventilated, and maintained at a comfortable temperature. The room
shall be at least fifty-six square feet in size, and shall have a ceiling height
of at least seven feet, six inches and shall be free of any objects or materials
which might be used to inflict self-injury.
(F) Any room used for isolation shall not be
used for visitation, counseling or group activities or discussions, recreation
or private discussions between residents or staff and residents. When a child
is placed in isolation staff shall inform the child of the reason for placing
him or her in isolation. Before continuing a child's isolation, staff shall
discuss with the child the need for continued isolation. Upon release from
isolation, staff shall again discuss with the child the reason for the use of
isolation.
(G) When isolation is used, the following
procedures shall be followed:
(1) Staff members shall ensure that a childor teenage motherwho is placed in isolation is not in possession of any object or material which might be used to inflict self-injury and that only one child is placed in an isolation room at a time .
(2) Staff shall be in auditory contact with an isolated childor teenage motherat all times, and shall make visual observation of an isolated childor teenage motherevery five minutes during the period of isolation.
(3) Visual observations as required by paragraph (G) of this rule shall be documented in an isolation log.ThisThe isolation log shall contain, at a minimum, the name of the childor teenage mother, the time of placement in isolation, the reason for the placement in isolation and the discussion of the reason for isolation with the child pursuant to paragraph (F) of this rule , the chronology of observations including the signature or initials of the staff who placed the child in isolation , the written approval of the administratorapprovalor designee for continued isolation offora childor teenage mother who remains infor any period of isolation longer than thirty minutes and the time of removal from isolation.
(H) No child under the age of six shall be
isolated for purposes of behavior management pursuant
to the provisions of this rule .
(I) Any restraint techniques used to
restrain a child shall be those approved by the residential facility.
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: January 1, 1991.