Section 22-B3415. PHYSICAL RESTRAINT AND BEHAVIORAL MODIFICATION

 

3415.1A community residence facility shall not use physical restraint or confinement except in an emergency to protect a resident from harming himself or herself or others.

 

3415.2When action is required, the Residence Director shall immediately notify the resident’s personal physician and sponsor, if any, and also shall take steps to obtain appropriate care for the resident.

 

3415.3Programs designed to control or change a resident’s behavior shall be described in writing, subject to the approval of the Mayor.

 

3415.4Restraint, control, and behavior modification programs that have been approved by the Mayor shall be conducted only under the direct supervision of a qualified person having a graduate degree in psychology, sociology, social work, special education, vocational rehabilitation, or psychiatry, and having direct, supervised experience and training in the method employed.

 

3415.5Restraint, control, and behavior modification programs shall not utilize deprivation or deprive any resident of his or her basic rights.

 

3415.6Personnel of the community residence facility shall not employ physical or mental abuse.

 

3415.7A resident shall not be forcibly secluded in a locked room, nor shall he or she be locked out of his or her room at any time.

 

source

Regulation No. 74-15 (June 14, 1974); as amended by the Community Residence Facilities Act of 1977 § 101(e), D.C. Law 2-35, 24 DCR 1458, 1488 (August 19, 1977); as amended by ERRATA published at 51 DCR 9308 (October 1, 2004).