The Patient's Bill of Rights

I have the right to speak and to make decisions about my behavioral health care and / or my child(ren)’s emotional and behavioral health care.

I have the right to know about the full range of promotion of wellness, prevention and treatment options available to me and or my child (ren).

I have the right to access the range of services, resources, interventions regardless of my race, ethnicity, cultural needs, level of education, level of English proficiency, location or insurance coverage.

I have the right to a provider who understands and respects my culture and can speak to me in my language.

I have the right to know about the provider’s capacity to use healing and/ or treatment practices that are of my own culture.

I have the right to ask and have access to an advocate who can assist me in exercising my rights and my child(ren)’s rights.

I and my child(ren) have the same rights to safety, non-discrimination, and social inclusion as any other individual.

I have the right to know and access grievance or conflict procedures that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.

I and /or mychild(ren) have the same rights to safety, Non-discrimination and social inclusion as any other individual.

I have the right to raise my own child (ren) regardless of my or their disability, I also have the right to plan and set goals for the future of my child( ren) and myself for the present, for crisis planning, e.g. by preparing an advanced directive for when I might not able to participate in decision-making for my own or my child(ren)’s service/treatment