Do you need an advocate?

  You have the right to choose goals that will lead to the kind of life you want for yourself. 

You have the right to participate in choices about the services and supports you receive and who provides them.

You have the right to know the cost of services.

You have the right to be served in the lowest level of care that is capable of meeting your physical, social, emotional, and cultural needs.

You have the right to be treated with dignity and respect without abuse, neglect, financial or other exploitation, retaliation, and/or humiliation.

You have the right to know the nature of your medical treatment and to understand the risks and benefits of these interventions.

You have the right to receive services that give you the most freedom possible.

You have the right to access medical care regardless of your age or degree of mental health, substance abuse, or developmental disability.

You have the right to understand how prescribed medications may help you as well as any side effects and risks. 

You have the right to receive medication for its intended purpose only and to take the lowest effective dose.

You have the right to refuse recommended or prescribed medication and the right to request a change in your medication.

You have the right to confidentiality and privacy.