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Title 25IndiansPart / Section
Chapter IBureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior1 – 299
Subchapter EEducation30 – 48
Part 36Minimum Academic Standards for the Basic Education of Indian Children and National Criteria for Dormitory Situations36.1 – 36.120
Subpart GHomeliving Programs36.70 – 36.120
§ 36.70What terms do I need to know?
§ 36.71What is the purpose of this part?
Staffing36.75 – 36.86
§ 36.75What qualifications must homeliving staff possess?
§ 36.76Who is in charge of all homeliving operations?
§ 36.77What are the homeliving staffing requirements?
§ 36.78What are the staffing requirements for homeliving programs offering less than 5 nights service?
§ 36.79What are the homeliving behavioral professional staff/student ratio requirements?
§ 36.80If a school or dormitory has separated boys' and girls' homeliving programs, may the same behavioral professional be used for each program?
§ 36.81May a homeliving program use support staff or teachers to meet behavioral health staffing requirements?
§ 36.82May behavioral health professional(s) provide services during the academic school day?
§ 36.83How many hours can a student be taken out of the academic setting to receive behavioral health services?
§ 36.84Can a program hire or contract or acquire by other means behavioral health professionals to meet staffing requirements?
§ 36.85Is a nurse required to be available in the evenings?
§ 36.86Are there staff training requirements?
Program Requirements36.90 – 36.104
§ 36.90What recreation, academic tutoring, student safety, and health care services must homeliving programs provide?
§ 36.91What are the program requirements for behavioral health services?
§ 36.92Are there any activities that must be offered by a homeliving program?
§ 36.93Is a homeliving handbook required?
§ 36.94What must a homeliving handbook contain?
§ 36.95What sanitary standards must homeliving programs meet?
§ 36.96May students be required to assist with daily or weekly cleaning?
§ 36.97What basic requirements must a program's health services meet?
§ 36.98Must the homeliving program have an isolation room for ill children?
§ 36.99Are immunizations required for residential program students?
§ 36.100Are there minimum requirements for student attendance checks?
§ 36.101How often must students who have been separated for emergency health or behavioral reasons be supervised?
§ 36.102What student resources must be provided by a homeliving program?
§ 36.103What are the requirements for multipurpose spaces in homeliving programs?
§ 36.104What are the requirements for heating, ventilation, cooling and lighting at dormitories?
Privacy36.110
§ 36.110Must programs provide space for storing personal effects?
Waivers and Accountability36.111 – 36.120
§ 36.111Can a tribe, tribal governing body, or local school board waive the homeliving standards?
§ 36.112Can a homeliving program be closed, transferred, consolidated, or substantially curtailed for failure to meet these standards?
§ 36.120What type of reporting is required to ensure accountability?