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Authority: AS 44.29.020 AS 47.14.100 AS 47.32.030 Editor’s note: Effective July 1, 2022, Executive Order 121 split the former Department of Health and Social Services into the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services. As of Register 242 (July 2022), the regulations attorney made a conforming technical revision under sec. 138, E.O. 121 and AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to the authority citation that follows 7 AAC 50.810, by substituting a reference to AS 47.32.010 (centralized licensing) for the references to AS 47.14.120 and repealed AS 47.35.010. 7 AAC 50.815. Qualifications of caregiver staff. (a) In addition to the orientation and training described in 7 AAC 50.820, a caregiver employee in a residential psychiatric treatment center must have completed

(1) a bachelor’s level degree program from an accredited college or university in a human services related field;

(2) at least six months of full-time work experience in residential treatment for children, inpatient long-term treatment for children, or other treatment of severely emotionally disturbed children and

(A) an associate level degree from an accredited college or university in a human services related field; or

(B) at least two years of college credit toward a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a human services related field;

(3) at least one year of full-time caregiver experience in residential treatment for children, inpatient long-term treatment of children, or treatment of severely emotionally disturbed children and a

(A) high school diploma; or

(B) general educational development diploma;

(C) repealed 1/29/2010;

(4) documentation of successful completion of no less than 100 hours of competency-based training provided by the caregiver’s current employer, which at a minimum addresses the areas described in 7 AAC 50.820(c)(1) — (4), (c)(6) — (11), and a

(A) high school diploma; or

(B) general educational development diploma.