Access to Multiple Pathways of Recovery Sample Clauses

Access to Multiple Pathways of Recovery. In the interest of consumer choice, MSHN will contract with Abstinence-Based providers who offer written policies and procedures stating the following:

Access to Multiple Pathways of Recovery. In the interest of consumer choice, MSHN will contract with abstinence-based (AB) providers who offer written policies and procedures stating the following: a. If a prospective client, at the point of access, expresses his/her preference for an abstinence-based treatment approach, the access worker will obtain a signed "MSHN Informed Consent" form that attests that the client was informed in an objective way about other treatment options including MAT, and the client is choosing an abstinence-based provider from an informed perspective. The informed consent must be initialed by the client to signify receipt and review of MSHN’s Informational Grid on Recovery Pathways for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and may be found in the MSHN SUD Provider Manual. b. When a client already on MAT (or considering MAT) is seeking treatment services (counseling, case management, recovery supports, and/or transitional housing) at the point of access to an AB facility, access staff a) will be accepting of MAT as a choice, b) will not pressure the client to make a different choice, and c) will work with that client to do a “warm handoff” to another provider who can provide those ancillary services while the client pursues his or her chosen recovery pathway that includes MAT. c. PROVIDER's policies will include language that prohibits delegitimizing, and/or stigmatizing of MAT (e.g. using either oral or written language that frames MAT as “substituting one addiction for another”) either verbally with individual clients, in written materials for clients or for public consumption, or in the public domain.