Rule 31-9-2.2 - Admission/Intake1. Written admission policies and procedures of the facility shall be approved by the Unit in accordance with goals and purposes of the facility and Mississippi statutes.2. Youth are processed into the facility in a timely manner. Intake for the juvenile justice system is available either on-site or through on-call arrangements twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.3. A youth court judge has the authority to release or conditionally release youth. Intake staff have the authority to release a youth upon notification to the youth court judge. 4. Intake staff use a race and gender-neutral Risk Assessment Instrument (RAI) to determine the appropriate pre-dispositional placement or status necessary to accomplish the purposes of detention (ensuring appearance in court and preventing re-offending). Youth eligible for detention are placed in the least restrictive alternative needed to accomplish those purposes (e.g., a non-secure setting, home supervision, and/or home electronic monitoring).5. For youth with limited English proficiency, staff make arrangements for intake to be conducted in the youth's native language in a timely manner.6. The facility assesses the frequency with which it has contact with individuals with limited English proficiency from different language groups.7. The facility establishes a process and informs families and guardians about the ways in which they can communicate with the facility about their children. 8. The facility follows a process for providing orientation to parents, guardians and caregivers within seven days of a youth's admission to the facility.9. Parents and guardians receive orientation materials in the primary language spoken in the household, or the facility makes other accommodations to ensure that parents and guardians with limited English proficiency understand how the facility operates.10. The facility does not charge for interpretation services.11. When communicating with parents or guardians of detained youth, staff do not rely on youth to serve as interpreters in non-emergency situations.12. During the intake process, youth receive information explaining, in an age-appropriate fashion, the agency's zero tolerance policy regarding sexual abuse and sexual harassment and how to report incidents or suspicions of sexual abuse or sexual harassment.13. Within 10 days of admission, the facility provides and documents comprehensive age-appropriate education to youth either in person or through video regarding their rights to be free from sexual abuse and sexual harassment and to be free from retaliation for reporting such incidents, and regarding agency policies and procedures for responding to such incidents.14. Admission procedures and practice shall include but not be limited to: a. Collecting identifying information. b. Verifying the legal authority to detain.c. Completion of a health assessment. A description of bruises, abrasions, symptoms of illness and current medications shall be documented.d. Assessing the juvenile's suicide risk potential.e. Documenting the notification of the juvenile's parents or legal guardian and legal custodian, if not the parent or legal guardian.f. Assisting the juvenile in contacting the juvenile's family at the time of admission.g. Conducting an intake interview. Designated staff members shall conduct each intake interview.h. Providing an orientation to the facility in a manner which is understandable to the juvenile. Completion of the orientation and receipt of all written orientation materials shall be documented by a signed statement from the juvenile.i. Notifying the appropriate intake officer. j. Searching the juvenile and the juvenile's possessions.k. Documenting the juvenile's clothing and personal possessions and disposition. A written inventory of all money and personal property of the juvenile shall be signed by the juvenile and the admitting staff member and kept with the juvenile's record. If the juvenile refuses to sign the inventory, the refusal shall be documented in the juvenile's record.l. Distributing personal hygiene items. m. Providing for a shower and hair care.n. Issuing clean, laundered clothing, if necessary.o. Assigning the juvenile to a sleeping room.15. No juvenile shall be admitted who shows evidence of being seriously ill, injured, intoxicated or physically or mentally impaired until the juvenile is examined and approved for admission by a qualified health professional.16. A facility shall not accept permanent legal guardianship of a juvenile.Miss. Code Ann. §§ 43-21-901 to 43-21-915 (Rev. 2016).