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treatment center shall determine the hours of training and topics appropriate to the duties of persons in that job class, including interaction or contact by those persons with children in care;

(4) orientation and initial training of persons as required in (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection is to include, at a minimum, orientation to

(A) the purpose, goals, policies and procedures of the treatment center;

(B) working conditions and regulations;

(C) responsibilities and rights of employees or volunteers;

(D) the facility’s policy and procedures for resident and family grievances;

(E) psychiatric treatment for children with severe mental, emotional or behavioral disorders;

(F) the security plan of the facility as described in 7 AAC 50.805; and

(G) the theory and practical application of techniques for de-escalating violent, destructive, angry, or runaway behavior by out-of-control residents while protecting the safety of the employee or volunteer and of other residents; and

(5) the facility may acknowledge and give credit for prior training that the employee or volunteer received, and that is the equivalent of parts of the orientation and training required by the facility’s training plan, if the prior training occurred no more than two years before the individual became an employee or volunteer. (c) The portion of the training plan required by (a) of this section for ongoing staff training and development must provide each caregiver employee or supervisor of caregivers, after that individual’s first year of employment at the facility, is to receive at least 40 hours of training each subsequent year of employment; that training must address, at a minimum, the following areas:

(1) security procedures;

(2) supervision and treatment of child residents;

(3) regulations and procedures for use of restraints, isolation, or physical force as applied to a resident;

(4) resident rights and responsibilities;

(5) fire and emergency procedures;

(6) interpersonal relations and communication skills;

(7) the theory of treatment of mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders of the types with which residents of the facility are diagnosed;

(8) social and cultural lifestyles of children in the various communities or groups from