Section 1522.43 Of Article 2. Administration From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 2. >> Chapter 3. >> Article 2.
1522.43
. (a) (1) For the duties the department imposes on a group
home administrator or short-term residential treatment center
administrator in this chapter and in regulations adopted by the
department, every group home and short-term residential treatment
center shall state in its plan of operation, the number of hours per
week that the administrator shall spend completing those duties and
how the group home administrator or short-term residential treatment
center administrator shall accomplish those duties, including use of
support personnel.
(2) For initial applicants, the information in paragraph (1) shall
be contained in the plan of operation submitted to the department in
the application.
(3) For current licensees, the licensee shall submit an amended
plan of operation that contains the information required by paragraph
(1) within six months of the effective date of this section. For
changes in the group home administrator duties imposed by the
department in this chapter or in regulations, a current licensee
shall have six months after the effective date of those duties to
submit an amended plan of operation to reflect the new administrator
duties.
(b) (1) The department may review a group home's or short-term
residential treatment center's plan of operation to determine if the
plan of operation is sufficient to ensure that the facility will
operate in compliance with applicable licensing laws and regulations.
As part of the review, the department may request that a peer review
panel review the plan of operation for a group home as prescribed in
paragraph (2), or for a short-term residential treatment center as
prescribed in paragraph (3).
(2) The peer review panel shall consist of two representatives
from the department, including one from the unit that governs
programs and one from the unit that governs licensing, a qualified
group home administrator, an experienced group home provider in good
standing, and a member or members from the placement agency or
agencies that place children in group homes, and may also include the
local county behavioral health department, as appropriate.
(3) The peer review panel shall consist of two representatives
from the department, including one from the unit that governs
programs and one from the unit that governs licensing, a qualified
short-term residential treatment center administrator, a short-term
residential treatment center provider in good standing, and a member
or members from the placement agency or agencies that place children
in short-term residential treatment centers, and may also include the
local county behavioral health department, as appropriate.
(c) A group home or short-term residential treatment center shall
develop a daily schedule of activities for the children at the
facility. The facility shall have this schedule available for
inspection by the department. The activities in which the children
are scheduled to participate shall be designed to meet the needs of
the individual child, and shall be based on that child's needs and
services plan.
(d) The department shall establish a process, no later than
January 1, 2017, for convening the peer review panel as set forth in
subdivision (b) for review of the plans of operation for short-term
residential treatment centers, and shall develop this process in
consultation with the County Welfare Directors Association of
California, Chief Probation Officers of California, County Behavioral
Health Directors Association of California, and stakeholders.