Current through August 31, 2023
Section 16.07.19.350 - FAMILY SUPPORT PARTNERS - CODE OF ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT01.Family Support Principles. These family support principles are intended to serve as a guide for certified family support partners and those who are working toward full certification in their everyday professional conduct that includes various roles, relationships, and levels of responsibilities within their jobs. (3-17-22)02.Certified Family Support Partner Integrity. In order to maintain high standards of competency and integrity, a certified family support partner must: (3-17-22) a. Apply the principles of resiliency, wellness and recovery, or both, family-driven approach, youth-guided or youth-driven approach, consumer-driven approach, and peer-to-peer mutual-learning principles in every day interactions with family members; (3-17-22)b. Promote the family member's ethical decision-making and personal responsibility consistent with that family member's culture, values, and beliefs; (3-17-22)c. Promote the family members' voices and the articulation of their values in planning and evaluating children's behavioral health related issues; (3-17-22)d. Teach, mentor, coach, and support family members to articulate goals that reflect each family member's current needs and strengths; (3-17-22)e. Demonstrate respect for the cultural-based values of the family members engaged in peer support; (3-17-22)f. Communicate information in ways that are both developmentally and culturally appropriate; (3-17-22)g. Empower family members to be fully informed in preparing to make decisions and understand the implications of these decisions; (3-17-22)h. Maintain high standards of professional competence and integrity; (3-17-22)i. Abstain from discriminating against or refusing services to anyone on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion/spirituality, culture, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, language preference, socioeconomic status, or disability; (3-17-22)j. Only assist family members whose concerns are within one's competency as determined by one's education, training, experience, and on-going supervision or consultation; (3-17-22)k. Abstain from establishing or maintaining a relationship for the sole purpose of financial remuneration to self or the agency with which one is associated; and (3-17-22)l. Terminate a relationship when it becomes reasonably clear that the peer relationship is no longer the desire of the family member. (3-17-22)03.Certified Family Support Partner Safety. In order to maintain the safety of all family members involved with family support services, a certified family support partner must: (3-17-22)a. Comply with all laws and regulations applicable to the jurisdiction in which the peer support services are provided, including confidentiality; (3-17-22)b. Maintain confidentiality in personal and professional communication and ensure that family members have authorized the use or release of any and all information about themselves or family members for whom they have legal authority, including verbal statements, writings, or re-release of documents; (3-17-22)c. Respect the privacy of partner agencies and not distribute internal or draft documents or share private, internal conversations; (3-17-22)d. When complying with laws and regulations involving mandatory reporting of harm, abuse, or neglect, make every effort to involve the family members in the planning for services and ensure that no further harm is done to family members as the result of the reporting; (3-17-22)e. Discuss and explain to family members the rights, roles, expectations, benefits, and limitations of the peer support process; (3-17-22)f. Avoid ambiguity in the relationship with family members and ensure clarity of the certified family support partner's role at all times; (3-17-22)g. Maintain a positive relationship with family members, refraining from premature or unannounced ceasing of the relationship until a reasonable alternative arrangement is made for continuation of similar peer support services; (3-17-22)h. Abstain from engaging in intimate, emotional, or physical relationships with family members engaged in a peer support relationship; (3-17-22)i. Neither offer nor accept gifts, other than token gifts, related to the professional service of peer support, including personal barter services, payment for referrals, or other remunerations; and (3-17-22)j. Abstain from engaging in personal financial transactions with family members engaged in a peer support relationship. (3-17-22)04.Certified Family Support Partner Professional Responsibility. Through educational activities, supervision and personal commitment, a certified family support partner must: (3-17-22) a. Stay informed and up-to-date with regard to the research, policy, and developments in the field of parent/peer support and children's emotional, developmental, behavioral (including substance use), or mental health which relates to one's own practice area and children's general health and wellbeing; (3-17-22)b. Engage in helping relationships that include skills-building, not exceeding one's scope of practice, experience, training, education, or competence; (3-17-22)c. Perform or hold oneself out as competent to perform only peer services not beyond one's education, training, experience, or competence; (3-17-22)d. Seek appropriate professional supervision/consultation or assistance for one's personal problems or conflicts that may impair or affect work/volunteer performance or judgment; (3-17-22)e. File a complaint with the certification body for Family Support Partners when one has reason to believe that another family support partner is, or has been, engaged in conduct that violates the law or these rules. Making a complaint to the certification body for Family Support Partners is an additional requirement, not a substitute for, or alternative to, any duty of filing reports required by statute or regulation; (3-17-22)f. Refrain from distorting, misusing, or misrepresenting one's experience, knowledge, skills, or research findings; (3-17-22)g. Refrain from financially or professionally exploiting a colleague or representing a colleague's work, associated with the provision of peer support or the profession of peer support, as one's own; (3-17-22)h. In the role of a supervisor/consultant, be responsible for maintaining the quality of one's own supervisory/consultation skills and obtaining supervision/consultation for work as a supervisor/consultant; (3-17-22)i. In the role of a researcher, be aware of and comply with federal and state laws and regulations, agency regulations, and professional standards governing the conduct of research, including ensuring the participants' complete informed consent for participating or declining to participate in a study; and (3-17-22)j. In the role as a volunteer, member, or employee of an organization, give credit to persons for published or unpublished original ideas, take reasonable precautions to ensure that one's employer or affiliate organization promotes and advertises materials accurately and factually. (3-17-22)05.Ethics Training. A certified family support partner must complete ethics training at least once per year, and maintain personal documentation of completed ethics training. (3-17-22)06.Comply with Code of Ethics. A certified family support partner must understand and comply with these rules and Idaho's Certified Family Support Partners Code of Ethics. (3-17-22)Idaho Admin. Code r. 16.07.19.350