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Your Right to Choose Any person that receives services may terminate services at any point and can do so by contacting their Case Manager. People are freely given the choice of providers and services and may decide to terminate with OPG, Inc. to seek another provider or to discontinue that service. Termination by OPG, Inc....

Incident Reporting By law, each staff member at OPG, Inc. must report any incident that has affected or could potentially affect a person’s health and safety. The Bureau of Developmental Disability Services (BDDS) provides a complete list of reportable incidents, which is outlined below. Additional details can be found in BDDS Incident Reporting and Management...

Preventing and Identifying Abuse, Neglect, Exploitation and Mistreatment People with disabilities are significantly more likely than their non-disabled peers to experience some form of abuse in their lifetime, so it is extremely important that they and the people who know them best are educated about preventing, identifying, and responding to Abuse, Neglect, Exploitation, and Mistreatment...

We are committed to promoting each person’s rights and believe that restrictions on a person’s basic human rights can only be justified in specific cases where a person presents a health or safety issue to themselves or others. When restrictions to individual rights occur, OPG, Inc. issues reports to the Human Rights Committee to review...

OPG, Inc. does not allow any policies or procedures that could result in abuse, neglect, exploitation, mistreatment, or violations of a person’s rights. OPG, Inc. employees, contractors and agents may not abuse, neglect, exploit, mistreat, or violate the rights of any person who receives supports from OPG, Inc. In order to protect and promote the...