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Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 44.30.020 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 conforming technical revisions under sec. 138, E.O. 121 and AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to the authority citation that follows 7 AAC 56.240 to substitute references to AS 44.30.020 and AS 47.32.030 for the references to AS 44.29.020 and AS 47.35.010. 7 AAC 56.250. Orientation and training. (a) An agency with one or more employees, contractors, or regular volunteers shall provide an orientation to each employee, contractor, or regular volunteer. The orientation must include the agency’s policies and procedures, including responsibilities of the employee, contractor, or regular volunteer and procedures in an emergency. (b) The orientation required in (a) of this section must begin at the time of employment, or contract or becoming a regular volunteer and be completed within the succeeding eight weeks. (c) An agency shall ensure that each worker. other than a volunteer, receives a minimum of 15 hours of job related training a year. The 15 hours must be in addition to orientation required by (a) of this section. For child placing workers 10 of the 15 training hours must relate directly to child placing activity including

(1) children’s emotional needs and problems that affect and inhibit their growth;

(2) family relationships and the impact of separation;

(3) permanency planning;

(4) serving a child who has been abused or neglected, is delinquent, or has special needs;

(5) cross-cultural placement issues;

(6) recognition, prevention, and treatment of substance abuse;

(7) principles and practices of supervision of a placement, including treatment planning and behavior management;

(8) principles and practices of recruitment, evaluation, and retention of placement