SCLARC continuously works to ensure that services are delivered in compliance with federal, state, and county requirements and regulations. We are wholeheartedly committed to empowering the people and communities we serve.
We continue to develop and implement goals, policies, and competencies founded upon person centered thinking and planning in order to promote equity, inclusion and parity in service provision.
Listening, supporting, and advocating is what we do
People with developmental disabilities have the same rights and responsibilities as all other residents of the United States and the State of California. In addition, California law gives people with developmental disabilities the following rights:
- A right to treatment and habilitation services and supports in the least restrictive environment.
- A right to dignity, privacy and humane care.
- A right to participate in an appropriate program of publicly-supported education, regardless of degree of disability.
- A right to prompt medical care and treatment.
- A right to religious freedom and practice.
- A right to social interaction and participation in community activities. A right to physical exercise and recreational opportunities.
- A right to be free from harm, including unnecessary physical restraint or isolation, excessive medication, abuse or neglect.
- A right to be free from hazardous procedures.
- A right to make choices in your own life.
- A right to have relationships, get married, be part of a family, and to parent if they so choose.
People with developmental disabilities who reside in a residenial facility possess these additional rights:
- To wear their own clothes.
- To keep and use their own personal possessions, including toilet articles.
- To keep and be allowed to spend a reasonable sum of their own money for personal expenses and small purchases.
- To have access to individual storage space for private use.
- To see visitors each day
- To have reasonable access to telephones, both to make and receive confidential calls.
- To have ready access to letter writing materials, including stamps, and to mail and receive unopened correspondence.
- To refuse electroconvulsive therapy.
To refuse behavior modification techniques which cause pain or trauma. - To refuse psychosurgery.
- To make choices in areas including, but not limited to: daily living routines, choice of companions, leisure and social activities, and program planning and implementation.