Knowing Your Rights in a Forensic Facility
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- knowing your rights in a forensic facility
- the advocacy center
- there are laws, statutes, and policies that protect your rights.
- advocacy
- basic individual rights
- appropriate clothing 3 nutritional meals a day
- freedom of movement and fresh air and exercise
- the right to treatment
- to be free from seclusion and restraint unless you are an immediate danger to yourself or others;
- participate at recovery team meetings; and help develop your treatment plan and your discharge plan.
- express and informed consent to treatment
- involuntary medication in emergency Situations
- Personal Safety Plan
- Your Right to communicate
- You have the right to call the Florida Abuse Hotline at any time unless you are in seclusion or restraint.
- in most facilities you have a right to call
- confidential records
- confidentiality of my medical records
- Mental Health Advance Directive
- INTERNAL COMPLAINT PROCEDURE
- external agencies in which you may file a complaint
- discharge planning
- petition for writ of habeas corpus or petition for redress of grievance
- VOTE IN PUBLIC ELECTIONS
- Poem
- you have a right to be heard and understood
- Thank you for the opportunity to provide you with this information
- The Advocacy Center for Persons with disabilities, Inc.
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external agencies in which you may file a complaint
- Abuse & Neglect : The Florida Abuse Hotline
- 1-800-962-2873 (1-800-96-ABUSE)
- Rights violations: The Florida Local Advocacy Council 1-800-342-0825
- O Facility complaint: The Agency for Health Care Administration 1-888-419-3456
- O Complaints against licensed professionals: Department of Health 1-888-419-3456
- O The Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc. 1-800-342-0823