Section 344.640 - Continuing Education Requirements for Maintaining Certification(a) To maintain an active certification: (1) a juvenile probation officer must complete 60 hours of continuing education within the certification period;(2) a juvenile supervision officer must complete 80 hours of continuing education within the certification period; and(3) a community activities officer must complete 40 hours of continuing education within the certification period.(b) For juvenile supervision officers, continuing education received during each certification period must include: (1) suicide prevention policies, including the suicide prevention plan in residential facilities;(2) training necessary to maintain current certification in CPR, first aid, and the approved personal restraint technique;(3) preventing, identifying, and reporting abuse, neglect, and exploitation;(4) verbal de-escalation policies, procedures, and practices; and(5) standards regarding use of personal and mechanical restraints, including prohibited techniques and criteria for use.(c) For community activities officers, continuing education received during each certification period must include: (1) training necessary to maintain current certification in CPR and first aid;(2) training necessary to maintain current certification in the department's personal restraint technique, if the department authorizes community activities officers to use personal restraints;(3) preventing, identifying, and reporting abuse, neglect, and exploitation;(4) verbal de-escalation policies, procedures, and practices; and(5) standards regarding use of personal and mechanical restraints, including prohibited techniques and criteria for use.(d) For chief administrative officers and facility administrators, continuing education must include a minimum of 20 hours of management topics. This requirement does not apply to the certification period during which an individual is appointed as a chief administrative officer or facility administrator.(e) A maximum of 20 hours of continuing education that exceeds the minimum requirement in a certification period may be applied to the next certification period.(f) Documentation of the required continuing education must be submitted to TJJD through TJJD's certification system no later than the last day of the certification period.(g) Requirements in subsection (a) of this section also apply in cases in which an officer's certification becomes inactive but is later reactivated within the same certification period.37 Tex. Admin. Code § 344.640
The provisions of this §344.640 adopted to be effective January 1, 2010, 34 TexReg 4191; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 42, Number 41, October 13, 2017, TexReg 5700, eff. 2/1/2018