3.3 Care Provider Required Services Flashcards
UC assessment and case review
Within 4 days of UC admission, staff member conducts an assessment that covers biographic, family, legal/‘migration, medical, distance abuse, and mental health history, all as part of the assessment
How is the UC assessment plan used?
It’s used by care provided as a basis for initial relief plans to to evaluated children or youth for services. They can’t be transfer until the sssedsment is completed
How often should the uc assessment be updated?
Every 30 days, or 90 days in LTFC
Three elements of labor trafficking of a child
Action: the child was recruited, harbored, transported, provided, or obtained
Means: through the use of force, fraud, or coercion
Purpose: for involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery
Two elements of sex trafficking
Action: child was securities, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, patronized, or solicited
Purpose. For a commercial sex act (any sec act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person)
Smuggling cases trafficking
Smuggling means crossing. A border bus illegal transport, but doesn’t necessarily mean they were trafficked
7 additional steps for care providers when caring for child victims of trafficking:
- Carefully verify all family and sponsor relationships in order to screen for traffickers who coerce or threaten a child
- Adjust in-care safety plan as appropriate to allow for only supervised phone calls or to revise the list of approved phone / visitation contacts for UC
- Train staff and volunteers on how victims of trafficking are subject to many different methods of coercion and control, including strong bonds with abusers and not understanding relatives of abus
- Simplifying UC in an age-appropriate manner to identify health relationship and understand common recruitment and deception from traffickers
- Implement additional safety measures, such as increased staff supervision or in/depth trauma-informed interviews during the planning process
- Create a safety plan that includes a list of safe persons, phone numbers, places to contact, and a list of unsafe persons and places
- Engaging UC in developing a plan of action for the child if they feel threatened or unsafe
Six required subjects for 6+ hours of structured education Monday to Friday
Science, social studies, math, reading, writing, PE, and ESL
Education assessments must he completed
Within 72 hours of admission in the facility to determine academic development and needs of the child
How should uc class groups be set up?
They can be done based on academic development, level of literacy, and linguistic ability rather than chronological age
Vocational education?
Can be used / is encourages to supplement (but not replace) academic services.
Five ways care providers should respect and support cultural identify of UC
- Allow UC regular contact with safe family members
- Address the UC by his or her given name
- Include cultural awareness in daily activities such as food menus, hooves of clothing, and hygiene routines
- Celebration of culture-specific events and holidays
- Academic education that covers various cultures with a classroom setting
Seven types of acculturation services
- Providing English language classes
- Access to community services
- Academic education, including geography, for example
- Celebration of US holidays
- Discussion of US laws
- Food and entertainment
- Field trips to local historical. Scientific, or cultural points of interest
How much leisure should children get?
At least one hour of big muscle exercise and one hour of structured leisure a day, or three hours per day on weekends or holidays. Tv doesn’t count, and tv must be screened for appropriateness!
Nutrition of food?
Nutrition must meet USDA and HHS nutritional guidelines, as well as state requirements. They almost must establish procedures for dietary restrictions, food allergies, health issues, and religious risk spiritual requirements
Minimum telephone calls, visitation, and mail
Minimum two calls per week to family or sponsors in a private setting (10 minutes each). Can only prohibit calls if legit reasons for it
All letters, packages etf should be sent on item. If it’s possible to would have contraband, it should be opened in front of staff
Clothing
Care providers shouldn’t use footwear to control behavior, and should let people wear things they come in with appropriate. Shaving facial hair can’t be required if part of cultural norms or religious beliefs, or personal preferences.
Gang-related symbols and tattoos, and any symbols should be covered or confidcated
Chores?
UC can be assigned individual chores for their own living environments but cannot clean like admin offices, and chores must have written policies on chores, chore assignments, and scheduels
Care providers are responsible for the following transport:
- individual transfers between providers
- group transfers due to an emergency or influx
- orr requests for special initial placements
- local services and appointments, such as medical and dental appointments, immigration court hearings. Or community services
- release of UCs to sponsors not able to pick the child up. As are approved by ORR
Must comply with local licensing requirements etc.
Allowed const aunts in emergency safety situations in residential treatment centers
- personal restraint, or application of physical force without use of any device, to restrain free movement of a child’s body
- a drug when administered to manage a child’s behavior in a way that 1) reduces the safety risk to the child or others, 2) modifies their behavior and is 36 not a standard treatment for the child’s condition
seclusion is involuntary confinement of a child alone in a room or area from which the child is physically prevented from leaving
Reporting the death of a uc should include immediate reporting to:
- Local law enforcement
- The care providers licensing authority
- Child protective services
- ORR via a significant incident report
Within 24 hours of a UC death, the following 7 must be notified by telephone and in writing
- The ICs parent, legal guardian, or next of kin
2: the attorney of record or care providers local legal service provider - Applicable consult are
- Child advocate if applicable
- Congressional officials
- ICE field office juvenile coordinator
- Dhs ice juvenile and family residential management unit
What restraints can be used in transport?
When a child poses serious risk of harm to self or others or escape, soft restrains such as zip ties and let or ankle weights can be used in transport, but medical and mental health issues must be taken into account. All use of restraints must be documented in transport logs
Two places restraint should be used in escape
Risk, self harm, or harming others possibilities
- Transport
- At immigration court or asylum interview
But all use of soft restraint must be filed in an SIR
