Yes, as part of enrolling in CBAY services, each participant signs a document indicating Freedom of Choice. The youth and family can choose to receive PRTF services, discharge and go home, or be enrolled in CBAY. Although this signature documents the choice of community services, it also documents that the participant has choice of providers, both at services onset and as long as enrolled in program.
In this process, the intent is to inform and to document that the participant and his or her legal representative will be:
- informed of alternatives and services available under the MFP
- given the choice of either PRTF or Home and Community-Based Services
- aware a signed document is on file indicating Freedom of Choice and for witnessing the signature(s).