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(ii) changing a child’s school, school attendance, IEP, or participation in a GED program; (iii) making drastic, permanent, or long-term changes to a child’s physical appearance (e.g., through body piercings, tattoos, etc.); (iv) changing a child’s psychotropic or other prescribed medication, altering the administra- tion of such medication, and/or altering a child’s treatment regimen; (v) changing a child’s religion or involving a child in activities related to a religion against the birth family’s wishes (if parental rights have not been terminated or if a relationship between the child and his or her kin still exists after termination); (vi) consenting to medical procedures (except in emergency situations as described in Agency policy); (vii) disclosing the child and/or birth family’s image, name, or other personal information in situations other than those specified in Agency policy; (viii) changing a child’s visitation plan in any way; (ix) changing the communication or visitation plan between the child and his or her siblings; (x) altering or disrupting a child’s case plan or transition plan. (xi) Nothing in this section shall give the facility the authority to: (l ) A facility shall require each RPPS decision maker to document and communicate with other group care staff and RPPS decision makers about all of the following for children placed by the Agency: (i) Each child’s location, behavior, and program participation; (ii) Significant incidents involving a child, as specified in the facility’s policy and procedures; (iii) Reasonable and prudent parenting requests and decisions made for children for activities that do not take place in the facility and are not supervised by a caregiver. (m) All facilities serving children placed by the Agency shall receive training and training materials about knowledge and skills relating to the reasonable and prudent parent standard, including: (i) The importance of a child’s participation in age- and developmentally-appropriate activi- ties; (ii) The benefits of such activities to a child’s well-being; (iii) Knowledge and skills relating to the developmental stages of the cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral capacities of a child; and (iv) Knowledge and skills relating to applying the standard to decisions such as whether to allow the child to engage in social, extracurricular, enrichment, cultural, and activities, including sports, field trips, and overnight activities lasting one or more days, and to decisions involving the signing of permission slips and arranging of transportation for the child to and from extracurricular, enrichment, and social activities. (n) All decisions made by the facility in accordance with the reasonable and prudent parent standard shall, when possible and appropriate, include consideration and/or involvement of the child’s birth family (as set forth in the principles of Shared Parenting). J. Behavior Intervention. (1) The facility shall adopt, and revise as appropriate, a written behavior intervention plan, which shall include: (a) All facility rules, including a description of acceptable and unacceptable child conduct, curfew requirements, a description of the consequences for violations of facility rules, and procedures related to a child’s absence from the group home without permission; (b) All other policies, procedures and practices related to behavior intervention which are to be utilized by staff, including procedures to be followed in administering the plan and reporting behavior issues. (2) The behavior intervention plan shall be submitted at the time of licensing or relicensing and when revisions occur.