Rights to health, safety and dignity
As an individual receiving in-patient treatment, you have the right to the protection and promotion of your health, safety and dignity, including a right to all of the following:
- you are a person first and must be treated in a respectful manner, regardless of your race, culture, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, class/economic position, sexual orientation, gender identity, diagnosis, inpatient status or legal status
- to respect your needs, wishes, values, beliefs and experience
- to live in an environment, that promotes your health, safety, and dignity
- to be protected from abuse and neglect
- to be free from discrimination, harassment, retribution, punishment, and exploitation
- to personal privacy, including privacy of your space, information, and belongings
- Privacy while speaking to lawyer, advocate, social worker/guardian probation/parole officer
Rights to participation and freedom of expression
As an individual receiving in-patient treatment, you have the right to participate in your own care and to freely express your views, including a right to all of the following:
- to participate in the development and implementation of plans that effect you personally
- to be kept informed of planned events or changes in the residence or services
- to fair process to express your concerns, make complaints or resolve disputes
- to be informed as to how to make a complaint to an authority inside and outside of the facility
- to effective communication in a form, language, and manner that assists you to understand the information provided
Rights to services
As an individual receiving in-patient treatment, you have the right to to make an informed choice, and give informed consent to treatment, including a right to have all of the following services:
- provided in a manner that respects your dignity, independence, and self-determination
- provided in a manner that complies with legal, professional, ethical and other standards
- that are tailored specifically for you based on your unique capabilities, needs, cultural and spiritual identity and preferences
- delivered in co-operation and collaboration among providers to ensure quality and continuity of client centered care (including integration with other healing practices), in support of wellness and recovery
- delivered in an environment that enables both client and provider to communicate openly, honestly, and effectively
- including a treatment plan developed specifically for you, based on your unique abilities, physical, social and emotional needs, and cultural and spiritual preferences
- that are delivered by qualified staff with the skills to work with you
Responsibilities
As an adult person in care, you have the responsibility to:
- Take personal responsibility for your own health, safety and well-being
- Treat your fellow clients and staff with dignity, respect, understanding, and kindness,
and refrain from judging others - Behave respectfully and in ways that do not jeopardize the health and safety of other residents, including respecting the confidentiality of others
- Participate in treatment to the best of your ability to effect change
- Participate in developing your own treatment plan and transition plan
- report any changes to my mental and physical health that require attention from a medical professional
- Keep an open mind to suggestions to bring about positive changes as a holistic person (in the areas of physical, mental, social and spiritual)
- Make staff aware if your cultural needs are not being properly addressed
- Do your part by keeping your own living space safe and clean
- Not use drugs or alcohol while in treatment or bring them on to property
Follow the terms of your residency/occupancy agreement
