Current Status: Issued
Original Issue Date: 08/01/01
Reviewed: 08/01/02, 08/01/03, 08/01/04, 08/01/05, 02/ 07, 02/09
Next Review Date: 02/27/2010
Document Number: TR SISO 02-VO1

POLICY INFORMATION

Subject:

Sign-in and Sign-out policy.

Policy:

It is the policy of the Iroquois-Kankakee ROE Teen REACH Programs that all participants and visitors sign-in and out of the program.

Procedure:

  1. Each participant and authorized visitor will sign-in and out of the program. The sheet requires the date, time-in and out, name of visitor and activity. A volunteer activity can include (but is not limited to):
    • Visiting
    • Volunteering
    • Tutoring
    • Observing
  2. Only authorized persons (those identified in writing) will be allowed to pick up a participant from the program. The program staff will refuse to release a participant to any person, whether related or unrelated to the child, who has not been authorized, in writing, by the parent or guardian to receive their child.
  3. One of the following procedures will be observed during departure:
    1. Parents or approved pick up people will sign out youth.
    2. Youth with parental permission will be allowed to leave the program on their own. Staff will establish a system where the youth check themselves out with a staff person and the staff person will check that the youth signed out and initial the attendance sheet.
    3. When sites provide transportation, staff will assure that all youth participating for the day are on the bus or have approved alternative transportation arranged.