Handbook for Supervised Independent Living – The Partner Provider must provide

Handbook for Supervised Independent Living – The Partner Provider must provide each participant with a Community Living Handbook which must address, at a minimum, the following: 1. A person-friendly, person-first definition and description of the community living service being provided; 2. The philosophy, purpose and overall goals of the service, to include but are not limited to: a. Methods for accomplishing stated goals and objectives; b. Expected results/outcomes; and c. Methods to evaluate expected results/outcomes. 3. A description of how the independent living program service addresses the following items, to include but not limited to: a. Visitation guidelines (applying to family, significant others, friends and other visitors) that are appropriate to Supervised Independent Living services: i. Person’s right to define their family and support systems for visitation purposes unless clinically/socially contraindicated. ii. All actions regarding visitors (restrictions, defining individual and family support systems, etc.) must be documented in the person’s record iii. Any restrictions on visitors must be reviewed whenever there is an identified need or request by the person to change any of the restrictions; iv. Visitation rights must not be withheld as punishment and may not be limited in ways that unreasonably infringe on the person’s state rights; and v. To the greatest extent possible, people should have visitors of their choosing at any time. 4. Daily private communication (phone, mail, email, etc.) without hindrance unless clinically contraindicated: a. Any restrictions on private telephone use must be reviewed daily; b. All actions regarding restrictions on outside communication must be documented in the person’s record; and, c. Communication rights must not be withheld as punishment and may not be limited in ways that unreasonably infringe on the person’s stated rights. 5. Dating 6. Off-site activities 7. Household tasks 8. Curfew 9. Respecting the rights of other people’s privacy, safety, health and choices. 10. Policy regarding the search of the person’s room, person and/or possessions, to include but not limited to: a. Circumstances in which a search may occur; b. Employees designated to authorize searches; c. Documentation of searches; and d. Consequences of discovery of prohibited items. 11. Policy regarding screening for prohibited/illegal substances, to include but not limited to: a. Circumstances in which screens may occur; b. Employees designated to authorize screening; c. Documentation of screening; d. Consequences of positive screening of prohibited substances; e. Consequences of refusing to submit to a screening; and f. Process for people to confidentially report the use of prohibited substances prior to being screened.