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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".15" citation="COMAR 07.05.01.15" title_num="07" subtitle_num="05" chapter_num="01" heading="Employee Responsibilities.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>An agency shall employ a chief administrator whose responsibilities include:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Management of the agency's total program;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Representation of the agency in the community;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Delegation of appropriate responsibilities to other staff;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Recruitment and employment of qualified staff;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Supervision, training, and termination of staff;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Assistance to the governing board in implementing its responsibilities by:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Communicating the needs of the children,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Making recommendations for needed policy changes,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Assisting in the periodic evaluations of the agency's services,</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Preparing the annual budget for approval, and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>Providing information regarding financial needs.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The child placement director is responsible for directing, monitoring, and evaluating the child placement service program of the agency.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>The child placement supervisor is responsible for supervising, monitoring, and evaluating the work and progress of the child placement staff.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>The child placement worker's responsibilities include:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Collecting and evaluating information for the child’s placement, and assessing the child’s needs, progress, and discharge planning;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Providing case management services to the child and the child's family while the agency is responsible for the child;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Ensuring that the child receives the therapeutic services the agency is authorized by its license to provide.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Representing the child and the program in liaison relationships with family, school, juvenile court, or other social and community services;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Maintaining a case record on each child;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Making appropriate information available to substitute caregivers and cooperating community agencies; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Completing adoption and foster home studies.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Support Services Staff. Individuals may be employed to provide support services and shall perform tasks to support the professional staff and the purpose and goals of the agency in an ethical manner to protect confidentiality requirements.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Secretarial and Clerical Staff. The agency shall employ a sufficient number of staff to perform secretarial and clerical duties, including maintenance of records, correspondence, and bookkeeping, and train the individuals in the goals of the agency and confidentiality requirements.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Staffing Pattern Requirements.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The child placement supervisor shall be responsible for not more than 6 child placement workers.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The volume of the caseload assigned to each child placement worker shall allow for the worker to make all required contacts with the birth family, children in care, foster families, adoptive families, and involved professionals.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>