(a) (1) The department, in consultation and collaboration with county placement officials, group home provider organizations, the Director of Health Care Services, and the Director of Developmental Services, shall develop and establish an administrator certification training program to ensure that administrators of group homes have appropriate training to provide the care and services for which a license or certificate is issued. (2) The department shall develop and establish an administrator certification training program to ensure that administrators of short-term residential therapeutic programs have appropriate training to provide the care and services for which a license or certificate is issued. (b) (1) In addition to any other requirements or qualifications required by the department, an administrator of a group home or short-term residential therapeutic program shall successfully complete a department-approved administrator certification training program, pursuant to subdivision (c), prior to employment. (2) If an individual is both the licensee and the administrator of a licensed facility, the individual shall comply with all of the licensee and administrator requirements of this section. (3) Failure to comply with this section shall constitute cause for revocation of the license of the facility. (4) The licensee shall notify the department within 10 days of any change in administrators. (c) (1) An administrator certification training program for group homes shall require a minimum of 40 hours of instruction conducive to learning, in which participants are able to simultaneously interact with each other as well as with the instructor, and that provides training on a uniform core of knowledge in each of the following areas: (A) Laws, regulations, and policies and procedural standards that impact the operations of a group home. (B) Business operations. (C) Management and supervision of staff. (D) Psychosocial and educational needs of the children, including, but not limited to, the information described in subdivision (d) of Section 16501.4 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. (E) Community and support services. (F) Physical needs of the children. (G) Assistance with self-administration, storage, misuse, and interaction of medication used by the children. (H) Resident admission, retention, and assessment procedures, including the right of a foster child to have fair and equal access to all available services, placement, care, treatment, and benefits, and to not be subjected to discrimination or harassment on the basis of actual or perceived race, ethnic group identification, ancestry, national origin, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental or physical disability, or HIV status. (I) Instruction on cultural competency and sensitivity and related best practices for providing adequate care for children across diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, as well as children identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. (J) Nonviolent emergency intervention and reporting requirements. (K) Basic instruction on existing laws and procedures regarding the safety of foster youth at school and ensuring of a harassment- and violence-free school environment. (L) The information described in subdivision (i) of Section 16521.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. The program may use the curriculum created pursuant to subdivision (h), and described in subdivision (i), of Section 16521.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. (2) An administrator certification training program for short-term residential therapeutic programs shall require a minimum of 40 hours of instruction conducive to learning, in which participants are able to simultaneously interact with each other as well as with the instructor, and that provides training on a uniform core of knowledge in each of the following areas: (A) Laws, regulations, and policies and procedural standards that impact the operations of a short-term residential ther
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