Behavior Management (3.3.13)
Behavior management strategies must meet these standards to ensure children's well-being.
What are child welfare best practice standards?
This federal office must assist in making transportation arrangement when releasing an unaccompanied alien child to a sponsor.
What is ORR (Office of Refugee Resettlement)?
Restraints may only be used in these types of situations involving an unaccompanied alien child.
What are emergency safety situations?
All medical emergencies must be handled in this manner.
What is immediately addressed?
LGBTQ+ children have the right to be free from this behavior based on actual or perceived sexual orientation or identity.
What is discrimination or harassment?
These types of behavior management practices are NOT allowed because they are punitive, involve punishment, or negative reinforcement.
What are punitive or non-constructive behavior management practices?
ORR must assist with transportation arrangements without this type of delay.
What is undue delay?
Restraints or seclusions must always be used only as this, and ended as soon as safety is ensured.
What is a last resort?
A medical emergency includes signs or symptoms requiring immediate attention to prevent this outcome.
What are death, loss of an organ, or significant damage to a body function?
Care providers may not do this to a child because of their sexual orientation, identity, or expression.
What is punish or label them negatively.
ORR expects care providers to use this type of approach that is trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and evidence-based.
What is trauma-informed, linguistically responsive, and evidence-based behavior management.
Care providers must offer transportation for these types of appointments, including medical, dental and immigration court hearings.
What are local services and appointments?
This type of restraint is permitted in all care provider facilities, but only during emergency safety situations and in accordance with law and licensing requirements.
What are personal restraints?
These conditions are explicitly included in the definition of a medical emergency under this policy.
What are pregnancy complications?
This action is prohibited when done solely because, identity, or expression.
What is segregation or isolation?
This practice-inflicting physical pain to control behavior-is strictly prohibited.
What is corporal punishment?
ORR may reimburse the care provider facility or direct pay for THIS to facilitate timely release of a child.
What is the child's and/or sponsor's transportation.
Seclusion and mechanical restraints are prohibited in all facilities except this type of care provider facility.
What is a secure care provider facility?
This policy memorandum provides guidance on communicating about medical emergencies involving pregnancy, birth, or abortion.
What is the policy memorandum: Medical services requiring heightened ORR involvement.
Care providers must provide services that are fair,equal , and describes by these three words.
What are inclusive, safe, and nondiscriminatory?
Care providers may NOT dent or threaten to deny these basic needs as a form of behavior management.
What are meals, hydration, sleep, hygiene, bathroom access, exercise, medical care, religious service, or legal assistance?
Transportation may cross state lines to ensure access to these services, even if ORR cannot pay for the medical care itself.
What are appropriate medical services?
Restraints or seclusions may NEVER be used for these purposes.
What are coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation.
Medical emergencies are identified by signs or symptoms that would reasonably require this type of care.
What is immediate medical attention?
Thia type of supervision is allowed only in exigent circumstances, not based on identity or expression.
What is one-to-one supervision?