Rule 164. A secure facility that serves juvenile justice
youth may have policies and procedures used to reintegrate youth who have been
placed in seclusion back into the program. A facility shall not use
reintegration in conjunction with seclusion that has been used as a sanction
for misconduct, if that would extend a residents confinement for more hours
than the original sanction or more than 72 total hours. The policy for
reintegration shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:
(a) The room may only be used for the time
needed to change the behavior compelling its use.
(b) When a resident has been in seclusion for
more than 2 hours, the reintegration plan shall be developed at the supervisory
level and shall include all of the following:
(i) A clear statement of the out-of-control
behavior or risk to others that requires continued seclusion.
(ii) Target behavioral or therapeutic issues
that must be resolved.
(iii)
Specific reintegration requirements or behavioral or therapeutic intervention
assignments and goals that must be completed while the resident is in the
seclusion room, listed in writing, and shared with the resident.
(iv) If intermittent removal from the
seclusion room is required for the resident to work on the specific
behavioral/therapeutic intervention goals, the level of restriction from the
program and goals for the period of time out of the room must be listed in
writing and shared with the resident.
(v) The strategies staff are to use to aide
the resident in resolving the issues requiring seclusion and reintegrating into
the program.
(c) The
secure facility serving juvenile justice youth shall comply with
R 400.4162.
(d) A reintegration plan shall not last
longer than 72 hours.
Notes
Mich. Admin. Code
R. 400.4164
2015 MR 9, Eff. June 8,
2015
