ChiME prioritizes creating an inclusive environment for all program participants at our facility.
ChiME also prioritizes providing a healthy, safe, and supportive space for individuals to participate. To that end:
- Participants who require toileting assistance must have external support with them to adequately address those needs. ChiME faculty and staff cannot assist with toileting. External support can be a parent, caregiver, family member, other professional; someone trained and equipped to adequately assist the participant with emergency and/or regular toileting needs. For short programs, external support may remain onsite or close by for emergency situations. For longer programs, external support can schedule times with ChiME staff to arrive onsite and assist, but must also remain available for emergency situations.
- Participants who require medical assistance outside the scope of ChiME’s professional practice must have external support with them. Medical assistance outside the scope of ChiME’s professional practice include, but are not limited to:
- Care or continuous maintenance of open wounds, rashes, or contagious skin conditions.
- Cleaning, maintenance, or utilization of medical equipment such as breathing tubes, feeding tubes, colostomy bags, injections of any kind.
- Frequent seizure activity.
- Fitting, refitting, or putting on assistive equipment like limb braces, transferring to and from intensive walking devices, etc.
External support for medical needs can be a parent, caregiver, family member, nurse, other professional; someone trained and equipped to adequately assist the participant with their medical needs.
- Participants at ChiME are asked to act within our value of inclusion, which includes speaking kindly and using safe physical behaviors. Participants who verbalize physical threats, act on physical threats, or display any type of bullying behavior, and who do not respond to appropriate redirection, will be required to have a 1:1 external support person attend programming with them. External 1:1 support can be a parent, caregiver, family member, nurse, other professional; someone trained and equipped to adequately assist the participant in redirecting behavior related to violence.
ChiME also prioritizes providing a healthy, safe, and supportive space for individuals to participate. To that end:
- Participants who require toileting assistance must have external support with them to adequately address those needs. ChiME faculty and staff cannot assist with toileting. External support can be a parent, caregiver, family member, other professional; someone trained and equipped to adequately assist the participant with emergency and/or regular toileting needs. For short programs, external support may remain onsite or close by for emergency situations. For longer programs, external support can schedule times with ChiME staff to arrive onsite and assist, but must also remain available for emergency situations.
- Participants who require medical assistance outside the scope of ChiME’s professional practice must have external support with them. Medical assistance outside the scope of ChiME’s professional practice include, but are not limited to:
- Care or continuous maintenance of open wounds, rashes, or contagious skin conditions.
- Cleaning, maintenance, or utilization of medical equipment such as breathing tubes, feeding tubes, colostomy bags, injections of any kind.
- Frequent seizure activity.
- Fitting, refitting, or putting on assistive equipment like limb braces, transferring to and from intensive walking devices, etc.
External support for medical needs can be a parent, caregiver, family member, nurse, other professional; someone trained and equipped to adequately assist the participant with their medical needs.
- Participants at ChiME are asked to act within our value of inclusion, which includes speaking kindly and using safe physical behaviors. Participants who verbalize physical threats, act on physical threats, or display any type of bullying behavior, and who do not respond to appropriate redirection, will be required to have a 1:1 external support person attend programming with them. External 1:1 support can be a parent, caregiver, family member, nurse, other professional; someone trained and equipped to adequately assist the participant in redirecting behavior related to violence.
