WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS?
ICM strives to maintain the following rights for all people supported:
To be free from physical or psychological abuse or neglect, retaliation, humiliation, and financial exploitation.
To have control over financial resources, wherever possible.
To receive, purchase, have, and use personal property.
To actively and meaningfully make decisions affecting one’s own life.
To access information pertinent to the individual in sufficient time to facilitate decision-making.
To have privacy.
To be able to associate and communicate publicly or privately with any person or group of the individual’s choice.
To practice the religion of choice.
To seek external advocacy services from any organization or person of their choosing at any time or for any purpose.
To be free from the inappropriate use of physical or chemical restraint, medication or physician’s order or as a substitute for treatment.
To be treated with dignity and respect.
To receive due process.
To offer input into all services and/or support.
To have access to records including information on how funding is accessed and utilized and what services were billed for on the individuals’ behalf.
To have informed consent or refusal or expression of choice concerning service delivery, the release of information, concurrent services, and composition of the service delivery team.
To have an investigation and resolution of an alleged infringement of rights, the agency will maintain documentation of such investigations.
To have the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
To be afforded all other applicable legal and constitutional rights.