Section 22-B3420. REHABILITATION

 

3420.1A major goal of each community residence facility shall be to assist its residents in achieving an optimum level of function and self-care through education and retraining in the activities of daily living.

 

3420.2Toward the goal specified in § 3420.1, community residence facilities shall maintain as culturally normal routines and procedures as possible, providing for sleeping periods, meal times, social and recreational activities, responsibilities, and resident autonomy that approximate, as nearly as is consistent with the proper care of the resident, the living patterns of independent persons of their age in the community.

 

3420.3In the case of group homes for mentally retarded persons, in addition to the provisions of §§ 3420.1 and 3420.2, each community residence home shall ensure that each resident is enrolled in and attends a daytime program, such as (but not limited to) a program conducted by a public school, day care, sheltered employment, or other appropriate activity center; provided, that the program shall be consistent with a person’s overall plan for habilitation.

 

3420.4Whenever possible, residents shall be encouraged to return to their homes or other residential living arrangements.

 

3420.5The Residence Director and other personnel employed by the community residence facility who are designated by the Mayor shall attend the training courses provided by the Mayor, at little or no cost, to increase their knowledge and skill concerning rehabilitation and rehabilitation techniques that can be employed in the community residence facility.

 

3420.6The Residence Director shall assist each resident in obtaining rehabilitation services from qualified therapists, including but not limited to physical, occupational, and speech and hearing therapists, as the resident may need, at the resident’s own expense, if the resident is able to pay, or under Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act, or at the expense of any other public or private plan or agency.

 

3420.7Each community residence facility shall grant access to, and to the best of its ability cooperate with, any licensed therapist who is hired to provide services to a resident of the community residence facility.

 

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, 1493 (August 19, 1977); as amended by ERRATA published at 51 DCR 9308 (October 1, 2004).