Section 465IAC2-2-6. Personnel qualifications

   Personnel Qualifications. Each child-placing agency shall establish minimum qualifications for each classification of employee. The following standards shall be used as a guide by each child-placing agency in establishing minimum qualifications for the classifications of executive, case work supervisor, case worker and worker in training and by the State Department of Public Welfare in the licensing of each child-placing agency:

(a) Each child-placing agency employing less than four case workers should employ either an executive meeting the qualifications of Executive B as hereinafter set out, and case workers meeting the qualifications of Case Worker A as hereinafter set out, OR, an executive meeting the qualifications of Executive A as hereinafter set out, and case workers meeting the qualifications of Case Worker B as hereinafter set out.

(b) Each child-placing agency employing four or more case workers should employ either an executive meeting the qualifications of Executive B as hereinafter set out, a supervisor meeting the qualifications of Case Work Supervisor A as hereinafter set out, and case workers meeting the qualifications of Case Worker B as hereinafter set out, OR, an executive meeting the qualifications of Executive A as hereinafter set out, a case work supervisor meeting the qualifications of Case Work Supervisor B as hereinafter set out, and case workers meeting the qualifications of Case Worker B as hereinafter set out.

(c) Each child-placing agency employing a case work supervisor may also employ a minimum number of workers in training who meet the qualifications as hereinafter set out.

(d) The qualifications for Executives A and B, Case Work Supervisors A and B, Case Workers A and B, and Workers in Training should be:

(1) Executive B. The qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Executive B in a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four year college plus five years of paid experience in some field of work related to social work of which at least two years should have been in social work or in a responsible supervisory or administrative capacity in the field related to social work.

(2) Executive A. The qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Executive A in a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four year college, plus one year of graduate training in a recognized school of social work including supervised case work in the field; plus two years of paid experience in the field of social work, one year of which should have been in a responsible supervisory or administrative capacity; except that a second year of graduate training or a Master's Degree from a recognized school of social work, including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for one year of the required two years of paid experience in the field of social work.

(3) Case Work Supervisor B. The qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Case Work Supervisor B in a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four year college, plus one year of graduate training in a recognized school of social work including supervised case work in the field, plus two years of supervised paid case work experience, at least one year of which should have been in an approved child-placing agency; except that a second year of graduate training or a Master's Degree from a recognized school of social work, including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for one year of the required two years of supervised paid case work experience, but there should be no substitution for the required one year of supervised paid case work experience in an approved child-placing agency.

(4) Case Work Supervisor A. The qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Case Work Supervisor A in a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four year college, plus one year of graduate training in a recognized school of social work including supervised case work in the field, plus three years of paid social work experience, two years of which should have been supervised case work experience in an approved child-placing agency; except that a second year of graduate training or a Master's Degree from a recognized school of social work, including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for one of the required two years of paid case work experience in an approved child-placing agency.

(5) Case Worker B. The qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Case Worker B in a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four year college, plus five years of supervised paid case work experience, at least two years of which should have been in an approved child-placing agency; except that one year of graduate training in a recognized school of social work, including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for the required five years of supervised paid case work experience.

(6) Case Worker A. The qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Case Worker A in a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four year college, plus one year of graduate training in a recognized school of social work, including supervised case work in the field, plus two years of supervised paid case work experience, one year of which should have been in an approved child-placing agency; except that a second year of graduate training or a Master's Degree from a recognized school of social work, including supervised case work in the field, may be substituted for one year of the required two years of supervised paid case work experience, but there should be no substitution for the required one year of paid case work experience in an approved child-placing agency.

(7) Worker in Training. The qualifications of a person qualifying for the position of Worker in Training in a child-placing agency should be graduation from an accredited four year college.

, Ch. 185, Acts 1945; Burns 22-2427 (Department of Child Services; Title 3,Ch 2,Reg 3-206; filed Dec 31, 1948, 10:30 am: Rules and Regs. 1949, p. 341; readopted filed Jul 12, 2001, 1:40 p.m.: 24 IR 4235; readopted filed Nov 27, 2007, 6:52 a.m.: 20071226-IR-465070551RFA; readopted filed Nov 26, 2013, 4:02 p.m.: 20131225-IR-465130459RFA) NOTE: Transferred from the Division of Family Resources (470 IAC 3-2-6) to the Department of Child Services (465 IAC 2-2-6) by P.L.234-2005, SECTION 195, effective July 1, 2005.