Guiding Values. Respect of Others’ Lifestyle Choices People are the first ones responsible for their health and they are entitled to make their own choices. It is the responsibility of the Health Centre to give them the proper information but not to interfere in their decisions as long as it doesn’t jeopardized others’ health or quality of life.
Guiding Values. The purpose of the ESP is to respond rapidly, assess effectively, and deliver a course of treatment intended to promote recovery, ensure safety, and stabilize the crisis in a manner that allows an individual to receive medically necessary services in the community, or if medically necessary, in an inpatient or 24-hour diversionary level of care. In all encounters the ESP provides a core service of crisis assessment, resolution-focused treatment intervention, and stabilization. These encounters must also include crisis behavioral health assessments and offer short-term crisis counseling that includes active listening and support. The ESP provides solution-focused and strengths-oriented crisis intervention (i.e. active listening, support, brief counseling) aimed at working with the individual and his/her family and/or other natural supports to bring relief to the crisis state, reduce symptoms, improve functioning, reduce harm, promote understanding of the current crisis, resolve ambivalence, identify solutions, and collaborate on decisions to access resources and services for comfort, support, assistance, and treatment. As agreed upon, and after engaging the individual (and parent/guardian when applicable) in an informed, shared decision-making process, ESP arranges the behavioral health services that the individual selects to further treat his/her behavioral health condition based on assessments completed, declared readiness and preference, and the individual’s demonstrated medical need. The ESP coordinates with other involved service providers and/or newly referred providers to share information (with appropriate consent) and makes recommendations for a treatment plan. The ESP also provides the individual and his/her family with resources and referrals for additional or alternate services and supports, such as recovery-oriented and consumer-operated resources in their community. While it is expected that all ESP encounters include the basic components outlined above, these services also require flexibility in the focus and duration of many additional tasks associated with initial interventions, an individual’s participation in treatment, and the number and type of follow-up services. ESP services are directly accessible to individuals who seek behavioral health services on their own and by those who may be referred to the program. ESP services are preferably community-based in order to bring treatment to individuals in crisis, allow for consumer choice, an...
Guiding Values. Expansive Definition of Disability- We work from an expansive definition of disability that includes those with physical disabilities, mental health disabilities, chronic illness, inherited immunodeficiency, chronic pain, are D/deaf or Hard-of-Hearing, Blind or low vision, DeafBlind, Autistic, neurodiverse, or many others whose lived experience makes navigating their bodyminds and this ableist world a common challenge. This is whether or not they have access to medical diagnoses of disability or are comfortable claiming that identity. Anti-ableism Addressing how ableism goes beyond the exclusion of disabled people within the built environment. We encourage the LOVE Building to actively work against ableism in its development and future activities, as defined by Xxxxxx “T.L.” Xxxxx: “A system that places value on people’s bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, intelligence, excellence and productivity. These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in anti-Blackness, eugenics, misogyny, imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism. This form of systemic oppression leads to people and society determining who is valuable and worthy based on a person’s appearance, language, religion, and/or their ability to satisfactorily [re]produce, excel and ‘behave.’ You do not have to be disabled to experience ableism." Understanding access as an anti-ableist practice which is economic, cultural, and social as well as physical. It can’t be addressed via universal design solutions or siloed disability accommodations alone. Xxxxxxx plays out in organizing, event, and working structures/processes. Working and organizing must be done in a flexible way that is responsive to how disability and illness impact our lives as team members and colleagues. Ableism includes ideas of normalcy which may not present as disability but may present as people being “too loud” or “not fitting in” or “not using our language” and may result in formal or informal practices of exclusion. Waawiiyaatanong/Detroit-specificity Anti-Blackness, anti-immigrantness, and colonialism. We operate from an understanding of Disability Justice (DJ) rooted in Detroit’s identity as the largest majority-Black city in the country. Its specific histories of slavery, Black nationalism/liberation, industrialization, urban development, redlining, gentrification require a specific approach. Other racialized and colonized communities such as the Latinx community and the largest Arab-American population...
