Employee Training Requirements:
IN-SERVICE TRAINING DESCRIPTION
The Director is to arrange/provide for In-Service training required by the State of Kansas for employee needing the certification.
Training will occur on a monthly basis.
Staff is orientated to the following:
- Facility policy and procedures manual
- Facility emergency and evacuation procedures
- Emergency safety interventions (including management of aggressive or suicidal behavior and orientation to the facility's restraint policies and procedures)
- The handling of blood born pathogens
- Facility discipline standards
- Abuse/neglect mandatory reporting laws
- Client record documentation policies and procedures
- Policies and procedures for resident medication management
- Resident rights
- Confidentiality laws
- De-escalation techniques
- Substance Abuse patterns
- Childhood and adolescent development (including developmental disorders)
- Childhood and adolescent psycho-pathology (including such topics as effects of abuse/neglect, reactive attachment disorders, separation anxiety disorders, ADHD)
- Childhood and adolescent sexuality issues, especially the effects of early sexual abuse
STAFF WILL ALL HAVE A MINIMUM OF 45 HOURS OF TRAINING PER YEAR. A PORTION OF THIS TRAINING WILL BE THE FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE EMPLOYEE.
All Purely Administrative Policies are subject to the Director's discretion subject to Advisory Board oversight.
Mission Statement:
Hope House strives to provide hope in a compassionate, safe, and stable environment for children.