Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 24 - Mental Health › Part 2 - Operational Standards for Mental Health, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use Community Service Providers › Chapter 19 - Crisis Services › Rule 24-2-19.8 - Crisis Residential Unit Orientation

Current through June 25, 2024
A. In addition
				to information contained in the agency provider's policies and procedures
				manual, providers of Crisis Residential Services must develop an orientation
				package which includes policies and procedures for the provision of Crisis
				Residential Services. The orientation package is to be provided to the
				person/parent(s)/legal representative(s) during orientation. Orientation may
				need to be delayed until the person is stable enough to comprehend the
				information being provided.
B. All
				agency providers of Crisis Residential Services must document that each person
				(and/or parent[s]/legal representative[s]) being served is provided with an
				orientation as soon as it is appropriate based on the functioning of the
				person.
C. The service and
				site-specific orientation package must be written in a person-first,
				person-friendly manner that can be readily understood by the
				person/parent(s)/legal representative(s).
D. Crisis Residential Service providers must
				have a written plan for providing the orientation package information in a
				person's language of choice when necessary.
E. The Crisis Residential Services
				orientation package must not simply be a book of rules. The orientation package
				must include the expectations of Crisis Residential Services and how the person
				can be successful in the service.
F. At a minimum, the Crisis Residential
				Services orientation package must address the following:
1. A person-friendly, person-first definition
				and description of the service being provided;
2. The philosophy, purpose and overall goals
				of the service;
3. A description of
				how Crisis Residential Services addresses the following items, to include but
				not limited to:
(a) Visitation guidelines (as
				applied to family, significant others, friends and other visitors).
(1) People's right to define their family and
				support systems for visitation purposes unless clinically/socially
				contraindicated.
(2) All actions
				regarding visitors (restrictions, defining person and family support systems,
				etc.) must be documented in the person's record.
(3) Visitation rights must not be withheld as
				punishment and may not be limited in ways that unreasonably infringe on the
				person's stated rights.
(b) Daily private communication (phone, mail,
				email, etc.) without hindrance unless clinically contraindicated.
(1) Any restrictions on private telephone use
				must be reviewed daily.
(2) All
				actions regarding restrictions of outside communication must be documented in
				the person's record.
(3)
				Communication rights must not be withheld as punishment and may not be limited
				in ways that unreasonably infringe on the person's stated rights.
(c) Dating
(d) Off-site activities
(e) Housekeeping tasks
(f) Use of alcohol, tobacco and other
				drugs
(g) Respecting the rights of
				other people's privacy, safety, health and choices.
4. 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.
5. 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 report confidentially the use of prohibited substances prior to being
				screened.