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Special Terms and Conditions d. Contractor must require that current employees, volunteers, and contracted service providers who are authorized for regular access to a juvenile(s) report any guilty pleb or conviction of any of the above offenses. The report must be made to the person's supervisor within seven (7) days of conviction and any person who have reported a guilty plea or conviction for one or more of these offenses must not have regular access to any offender. Contractor shall also document background checks/criminal history clearances for monitoring purposes. 16. Sexual Misconduct a. Sexual Misconduct - 13.40.570 RCW (Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors) states that when the Secretary has reasonable cause to believe that sexual intercourse or sexual contact between the employee of a Contractor and an offender has occurred, the Secretary shall require the employee of a Contractor to be immediately removed from any employment position which would permit the employee to have any access to any offender. b. By execution of this Contract, Contractor affirms that Contractor, each of its employees, subcontractors, and/or volunteers are knowledgeable about the requirements of 13.40.570 RCW (Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors) and of the crimes included in 9A.44 RCW (Sex Offenses). c. In addition, the Secretary shall disqualify for employment with a Contractor in any position with access to an offender, any person: (1) Who is found by the department, based on a preponderance of the evidence, to have had sexual intercourse or sexual contact with the offender: or (2) Convicted of any crime specified in chapter 9A.44 RCW (Sex Offenses) when the victim was an offender d. If any actions are taken under 13.40.570 RCW, subsections (3) or (4), the Contractor must demonstrate to the Secretary they have greatly reduced the likelihood that any of its employees, volunteers, or subcontractors could have sexual intercourse or sexual contact with any offender. The Contract shall not be renewed unless the Secretary determines significant progress has been made. 17. PREA Requirements The following Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) training and Criminal History Background Check requirements must be met if you are providing services to youth in a JR facility and will have direct unsupervised access to youth. The training requirement only needs to be completed once. a. Participate and complete all Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) required trainings which shall consist of the following: (1) Review of JR's PREA Policy 5.90, Applying the PREA Standards in JR; (2) Review of the "JR Guide to the Prevention and Reporting Sexual Misconduct" brochure; (3) View the National Institute of Corrections Video, Keeping Our Kids Safe: The Prison Rape Elimination Act and Juvenile Justice, Parts 1 and 2 (approx. 23 minutes total). Viewable via the YouTube link: NIC Keeping Kids Safe (httos:/lwww voutube com/watch�v=bH1J4M7QnYq); and (4) Completion of the JR's PREA "Volunteer/Contractor Acknowledgement Completion of Training and Policy Review" Form. Department of Children. Youth & Families 2017CF County Program Agreement 6-24-20 Page 5