SECTION 745.8919. What qualifies as one year of experience in management or supervision of personnel and programs?

(a) To qualify for a CCAL, you must substantiate through an employer reference that:

(1) You have completed the one year of full-time experience in management or supervision of residential child-care personnel and programs within the past 10 years;

(2) Your experience was at a general residential operation, residential treatment center, or in a comparable residential operation in which you worked primarily with children;

(3) If you were not solely responsible for implementing the operation's child-care program, that you shared in that responsibility; and

(4) You supervised at least one member of the child-care personnel and your supervision responsibilities included assigning duties, hiring, disciplining, rewarding, approving leave requests, and conducting formal employee evaluations.

(b) To qualify for a CPAAL, you must substantiate through an employer reference that:

(1) You have completed the one year of full-time experience in management or supervision of child-placing personnel and programs within the past 10 years;

(2) Your experience was at a child-placing agency;

(3) If you were not solely responsible for implementing the agency's child-placing program, that you shared in that responsibility; and

(4) You supervised at least one member of the child-placing agency personnel and your supervision responsibilities included assigning duties, hiring, disciplining, rewarding, approving leave requests, and conducting formal employee evaluations.

(c) Experience as a foster parent, adoptive parent, or any other type of caregiver or staff person in an agency home does not meet the requirements of subsections (a) or (b) of this section.

(d) The Assistant Commissioner for Child-Care Licensing, or his designee, may grant exceptions to this rule on a case-by-case basis, if an applicant is able to provide compelling justification that his experience qualifies him to act as a licensed administrator.

Source Note: The provisions of this §745.8919 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 9342