Staffing Qualifications
What is the minimum educational requirement for a Homeliving Supervisor?
Answer: A bachelor's degree with qualifications based on the size and complexity of the school. Ex: Principal
What services must Homeliving Programs provide?
Answer: Appropriate student safety, academic tutoring, recreation, and health care services
What sanitary standards must Homeliving Programs meet?
Answer: Restrooms, showers, and common areas must be cleaned daily; rooms must be cleaned daily; linens must be changed and cleaned weekly; linens and basic toiletries must be provided; and functional washing machines and dryers must be provided.
What student resources must be provided by a Homeliving Program?
Answer: Library resources, a copy of each textbook used by the academic program, and reasonable access to a computer with internet access to facilitate homework and study.
What is the minimum educational requirement for a Homeliving Manager?
Answer: An associate's degree, with qualifications based on the size and complexity of the student body. Ex: RPM
Is a Homeliving Handbook required?
Answer: Yes, to use as a guideline for the program.
Must the Homeliving Program have an isolation room for ill children?
Answer: Yes
What are the requirements for multipurpose spaces in Homeliving Programs?
Answer: Adequate areas for sleeping, study, recreation, and related activities must be provided.
What is the minimum educational requirement for Homeliving Program Staff?
Answer: At least 32 post-secondary semester hours (or 48 quarter hours) in an applicable academic discipline, including fields related to working with children.
What must a Homeliving Handbook contain?
Answer: It must contain a mission/vision statement, discipline policy, parent/student rights and responsibilities, confidentiality, sexual harassment policy, violence/bullying policy, homeliving policies and procedures, services available, personnel and position listing, emergency procedures and contact numbers, bank procedures, transportation policy, check-out procedures, dress code, drug/alcohol policy, computer usage policy, medication administration policy and procedure, and isolation/separation policy.
Are immunizations required for residential program students?
Answer: Yes
Must programs provide space for storing personal effects?
Answer: Yes, programs must provide space for storing personal effects.
Are there specific staffing ratios for different grade levels and times of day?
Answer: Yes. Day ratio is 1 to 20 and night ratio is 1 to 40
Can students be required to assist with daily or weekly cleaning?
Answer: Yes, there are daily and weekly deep cleaning chore charts
Are there minimum requirements for student attendance checks?
Answer: Yes, all students must be physically accounted for four times daily, with each count at least two hours apart. At night, all student rooms should be physically checked at least once every hour.
What is required regarding student check-out procedures?
Answer: Sign the check-out card, take student belongings, confirm identity, person has to be sober.
Does the program need a school nurse or medical assistant?
Answer: No if all staff are trained in CPR/First Aid
Answer: Washing & drying clothes, cleaning, making snacks, designated homework time.
How often must students who have been separated for emergency health or behavioral reasons be supervised?
Answer: Students must be supervised as frequently and as closely as the circumstances and protocols require, with no student left unsupervised until factors such as the student's health and safety are considered.
What is the latest time that a student can check in?
8PM