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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".14" citation="COMAR 07.02.25.14" title_num="07" subtitle_num="02" chapter_num="25" heading="Behavioral Management of Children in Care.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>The local department shall provide resource parents with developmentally appropriate and trauma-informed resources to manage the behaviors of children in care, including behavior management methods, and connect the resource parent with community programs to address concerning behaviors.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Resource parents shall establish clear expectations for behavior and understand and manage challenging behaviors in a trauma-informed manner, rewarding good behavior.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Only a resource parent or other adult caregiver approved by the local department and known to the child in care may discipline a child in care.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Resource parents may only physically restrain a child in care to protect the child in care from self-injury or from injuring others.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Prohibited punishments include:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Using corporal punishment that includes spanking, shaking, physical hitting, or any other type of physical punishment, no matter how inflicted;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Requiring physical exercises such as running laps or performing pushups;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Forcing a child in care to assume or hold an uncomfortable position such as squatting or bending, or to repeat physical movements;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Confining a child in care in a locked room;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Using mechanical or chemical restraints;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Denying essential program services, such as not taking a child in care to a planned appointment for educational, psychiatric, or psychological services;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Withholding visitation or communication with the child in care’s family or kin;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Withholding meals, clothing, or bedding, or disrupting a child in care’s sleep;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Making remarks that belittle or ridicule a child in care or a child in care's family; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Threatening to have a child in care removed from the resource home.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>