A facility must ensure that an employee who is hired by a facility on or after May 1, 2016, and whose duties will require the employee to work directly with a resident, completes trauma-informed care training before the employee works directly with a resident. For purposes of this section, "to work directly with a resident" means to serve on a resident's interdisciplinary team or otherwise work with a resident to implement the resident's individual program plan.

Source Note: The provisions of this §551.44 adopted to be effective April 27, 2016, 41 TexReg 2971; transferred effective May 1, 2019, as published in the Texas Register April 12, 2019, 44 TexReg 1883; amended to be effective February 24, 2022, 47 TexReg 787