N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:56-10.8

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

Section 3A:56-10.8 - Parenting education

(a) The home shall have a written curriculum or guidelines for providing parenting education that shall include, but not be limited to, the following topics:

1. Infant and child development including alternatives to punishment and options for toilet training;

2. Age-appropriate stimulation, games and other recreational activities for children;

3. Providing for child care;

4. Health and nutritional care including an explanation of the Supplemental Feeding Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC);

5. Relationships with the adolescent mother's family;

6. Dealing with feelings about the adolescent's relationship with the infant's father;

7. Options for placing the infant in a separate foster care placement or for adoption;

8. Safe sleep positioning and awareness of potential hazards in sleeping areas;

9. Post-partum depression; and

10. Proper installation of all car seats (child passenger restraint systems) utilized at the home, as well as an overview and information on different car seats that may be utilized.

(b) The home shall provide parenting education on a group or individual basis to each adolescent.

(c) The home shall provide each adolescent at least one hour of parenting education each week until the home documents that the adolescent has mastered skills or resolved issues specified in (a) above.

(d) The home shall involve the adolescent in shopping for her infant's clothes and other necessities.

(e) The home shall provide information to the adolescent on preventing child abuse and neglect, including, but not limited to:

1. Discussion of mandatory reporting;

2. How to identify the reported abuse and neglect; and

3. Resources to help parents avoid abusing or neglecting their children.

N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:56-10.8

Administrative Change, 49 N.J.R. 98a.

Amended by 50 N.J.R. 135(a), effective 1/2/2018