Current Status: Issued
Original Issue Date: 08/28/01
Reviewed: 8/28/02, 08/28/03, 08/28/04, 08/28/2005, 08/28/06, 08/07, 08/09
Next Review Date: 08/28/2010
Document Number: TR IT 02-VO1

POLICY INFORMATION

Subject:

Intake and Termination Procedures.

Policy:

It is the policy of Iroquois-Kankakee ROE Teen REACH Programs that participants will be enrolled in the program, as they enter the program and terminated when they leave/exit the program or for non-attendance.

Procedure:

  1. During the first quarter in which a participant is enrolled, they are considered a "new enrollee". After that, a participant is considered ongoing.
  2. A written and signed Program Consent Form giving parental/guardian consent for each enrolled youth to participate in the activities of the Teen REACH program including permission for: field trips, photography release; outcome measures; and medical release will be obtained at the time of enrollment and kept on file.
  3. The participating youth will be entered into the eCornerstone data system.
  4. Enrollment status will be extended from one fiscal year to the next.
  5. A participant may be dismissed from the program if their behavior becomes physically, mentally or emotionally threatening to self, staff, other children or parents.
  6. A participant may also be dismissed/terminated from the program after an absence of one (1) month.
  7. Participants and families will be contacted and follow-up will be made when unexpected or chronic absences occur.
  8. When a participant returns to the program after being terminated, the participant will be re-enrolled and entered into the eCornerstone data system.