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Recipient Rights

Rights Advisors are assigned in each program area to assure that the program adopts and operates in compliance with written agency and funding sources policies and procedures in order to support, enhance and protect the human, civil, constitutional and statutory rights of service recipients. Further, each rights advisor is responsible for the review of these rights with all new consumers entering their program. Consumer deaths are tracked, investigated and reported. Investigations have been conducted in cooperation with CMH's, AFC licensing, police authorities and others as situations warrant.

Hope Network has embraced the Mental Health Code and has integrated the Code into policy and procedure, and as the way of doing business. Hope Network has staff trained in conducting recipient rights investigations and have traditionally conducted investigations in situations where CMH's have asked us to cover and where a CMH was not involved.

Hope Network utilizes their Behavior Management Committee to assure the limited and proper implementation of behavior management techniques in the course of consumer treatment. Hope Network and Affiliates have on staff, and as a member of the Behavior Management Committee, a psychologist with more than 15 years of experience in applied behavioral technology.