Ala. Admin. Code r. 580-8-38-.03

Purpose

This section establishes the purpose of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation's Rights Protection and Advocacy Office, which is responsible for safeguarding the civil rights and recipient rights of individuals served in the Department's state facilities and community-based programs. The Office provides nonlegal advocacy services including individual advocacy (information, referral, complaint investigation and resolution, and individual representation) and systems advocacy (rights education, training, and monitoring reviews). Facility operators under contract with or certified by the Department must comply with the rights protection standards and monitoring processes described here.

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(1)
 The Department
 of Mental Health and Mental Retardation recognizes and accepts its
 responsibility to help safeguard the civil rights of individuals served in its
 state facilities and community-based programs certified and/or under contract
 with the Department; and further, its responsibility to promulgate reasonable
 rules, regulations and standards safeguarding recipient rights of protection
 from abuse and quality individualized and least restrictive treatment and care
 as established by state and federal laws.

(2)
 The purpose of the Department's Rights
 Protection and Advocacy Office is to actively assist in safeguarding the rights
 of recipients served directly by the Department or through contracts with the
 Department, by providing a program of nonlegal advocacy services. These
 services provide for individual advocacy to include information, referral,
 rights complaint investigation and resolution services, and individual
 representation; and systems advocacy services to include rights education and
 training program and rights certification and monitoring reviews. 
 
Author:
 Office of Advocacy Services,
 DMH/MR

Notes

Ala. Admin. Code
 r. 
580-8-38-.03

Filed February 17, 1987.
 Repealed and Replaced: Filed March 24, 1997; effective April 28,
 1997.

Statutory Authority:

Code of Ala.
 1975
, §
 
22-50-11
.

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