Population: Youth
Legal Features: Definition
Law Type: Statute
Excerpt of Relevant Text:
(2) The educational service districts must identify or develop classroom training on the following subjects:
(a) Constitutional and civil rights of children in schools, including state law governing search and interrogation of youth in schools;
(b) Child and adolescent development;
(c) Trauma-informed approaches to working with youth;
(d) Recognizing and responding to youth mental health issues;
(e) Educational rights of students with disabilities, the relationship of disability to behavior, and best practices for interacting with students with disabilities;
(f) Bias free policing and cultural competency, including best practices for interacting with students from particular backgrounds, including English learner, LGBTQ, immigrant, female, and nonbinary students;
(g) Local and national disparities in the use of force and arrests of children;
(h) Collateral consequences of arrest, referral for prosecution, and court involvement;
(i) Resources available in the community that serve as alternatives to arrest and prosecution and pathways for youth to access services without court or criminal justice involvement;
(j) De-escalation techniques when working with youth or groups of youth;
(k) State law regarding restraint and isolation in schools, including RCW 28A.600.485;
(l) The federal family educational rights and privacy act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g) requirements including limits on access to and dissemination of student records for noneducational purposes; and
(m) Restorative justice principles and practices.