Description
Elevate your agency’s behavioral support system with a fully compliant, trauma-informed, multi-state ready Behavior Support Practices Policy designed to protect individuals, uphold their rights, and strengthen your organization’s quality of care. Built to align with DODD standards, the HCBS Settings Rule, and national best practices in Positive Behavior Support (PBS) and trauma-informed care, this policy provides agencies with a comprehensive, audit-ready framework that meets the highest regulatory expectations.
This policy helps your agency:
- Reduce risk and liability through clearly defined procedures for supporting challenging behaviors, documenting incidents, and ensuring proper oversight.
- Protect individuals’ rights by grounding support in dignity, autonomy, communication, and human rights principles.
- Improve staff competency with structured guidance on trauma-informed practices, crisis de-escalation, restrictive intervention protocols, and required training.
- Strengthen clinical quality through clear expectations for Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA), Behavior Support Plans (BSPs), data collection, fidelity monitoring, and interdisciplinary involvement.
- Ensure compliance across states with built-in safeguards that reflect DODD Rule 5123-2-06 while being adaptable for any HCBS waiver program, I/DD provider setting, or residential/day service environment.
With this policy, agencies gain a complete, ready-to-implement framework that covers:
- Positive, proactive behavioral supports
- Trauma-informed care principles
- Crisis prevention and de-escalation
- Restrictive intervention limitations and safeguards
- Human Rights and Behavior Support Committee requirements
- Documentation and reporting standards
- Medical oversight procedures
- Staff training and competency requirements
- Rights restoration and fading criteria
- Quality assurance and data monitoring systems
Whether your agency is preparing for accreditation, strengthening compliance, onboarding new staff, or standardizing behavioral support across programs, this robust policy gives you everything you need to operate confidently, ethically, and compliantly.
Empower your team. Protect the individuals you support. Build a safer, more person-centered organization with this comprehensive Behavior Support Practices Policy.
