Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 24 - Mental Health › Part 2 - Operational Standards for Mental Health, Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use Community Service Providers › Chapter 31 - Community Living Services for People with Substance Use Disorders › Rule 24-2-31.2 - Substance Use Disorders Community Living Handbook

Current through June 25, 2024
A. In
				addition to information contained in the agency provider's policies and
				procedures manual, agency providers of Substance Use Disorder Residential
				Treatment Services must develop a handbook which includes all applicable
				policies and procedures. Handbooks are to be provided to the
				person/parent(s)/legal representative(s) during orientation. The Community
				Living Handbook must be readily available for review by employees and must be
				updated as needed.
B. All agency
				providers must document that each person (and/or parent[s]/legal
				representative[s]) served is provided with a handbook during orientation on the
				day of admission. The agency provider must document the review of the handbook
				with the person/parent(s)/legal representative(s) annually (if applicable to
				the service).
C. The service and
				site-specific handbook must be written in a person-first, person-friendly
				manner that can be readily understood by the person/parent(s)/legal
				representative(s).
D. Agency
				providers must have a written plan for providing the handbook information in a
				person's language of choice when necessary if English is not the person's
				primary language.
E. At a minimum,
				the handbook 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, including but 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 service addresses
				the following items:
(a) Visitation
				guidelines;
(b) External
				communication guidelines (phone, mail, email, etc.);
(c) Dating;
(d) Off-site activities;
(e) Household tasks;
(f) Curfew;
(g) Use of items for personal consumption
				(i.e., tobacco, dietary supplements, over-the-counter medications, food or
				drink items, etc.); and,
(h)
				Respecting the rights of other people's privacy, safety, health and
				choices.
4. A
				description of the meal schedule is to be provided. Meals must be provided at
				least three (3) times per day, and a snack must be provided throughout the day.
				Documentation of the meal planning must be available for review, and
				documentation must include development of a menu with input from the person
				living in the residence that includes varied, nutritious meals and snacks and
				description of how/when meals and snacks will be prepared.
5. Personal hygiene care and grooming
				expectations, including assistance available
6. Medication schedule
7. Guidelines for prevention of and
				protection from infection, including communicable diseases
8. Policy regarding the search of the
				person's room, person and/or possessions including:
(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.
9. Policy regarding urine drug screening for
				prohibited/illegal substances including:
(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 in a confidential manner the use of prohibited substances
				prior to being screened.
10. Description of the employee's
				responsibility for implementing the protection of the person and his/her
				personal property and rights.