Standards to Promote Recovery and Resiliency

The Department establishes the following standards to promote recovery and resiliency, and to support and increase the capacity of persons who receive services subject to 104 CMR 28.00 for independent living in the community. Providers shall provide services which promote: (1) Human dignity and respect; (2) Humane and adequate care, treatment and treatment environments; Person-centered planning, self-determination and freedom of choice and personal responsibility; (4) The opportunity to receive services which are, to the maximum extent possible, culturally competent, adequate, responsive to a person's needs, and least restrictive of a person's freedom; (5) The opportunity to move toward independent living; and (6) The opportunity for normal life experiences, even if such experiences may entail an element of risk; provided, however, that a person's safety or well-being or that of others shall not be unreasonably jeopardized.