Division of Youth Services Staff Training Programs

PURPOSE: The purpose of this rule is to provide for the establishment of comprehensive training programs for staff of the division and of other agencies and organizations, public and private, engaged in activities relating to the prevention of delinquency and the provision for care and treatment to delinquent youth. (1) The division will establish comprehensive training programs for its staff, employed or to be employed. (2) The division will also be responsible for extending training opportunities to other public and private youth serving agencies, which are offering delinquency prevention and delinquency rehabilitative treatment services to youth within the state as funds for such training are made available. The division, in conjunction with these public and private agencies, will initiate and facilitate an assessment of training needs. After the assessment all needs will be prioritized, and appropriate training will be jointly planned and initiated by qualified Division of Youth Services (DYS) staff, qualified staff or agencies served and/or by purchase of services from other qualified training consultants. AUTHORITY: section 219.016, RSMo Supp. 1999.* Original rule filed Dec. 30, 1975, effective Jan. 9, 1976. Amended: Filed Feb. 10, 2000, effective Aug. 30, 2000. *Original authority: 219.016, RSMo 1975, amended 1993, 1995.