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7 AAC 127.160. Use of restrictive intervention. (a) A Community First Choice personal care assistant may use restrictive intervention only

(1) as a response when a recipient presents an imminent danger to the recipient’s safety or to the safety of others;

(2) when other types of interventions have been tried, and documented as ineffective for safe management of the recipient’s behavior that requires intervention; and

(3) if the type of intervention is safe, proportionate to the recipient’s behavior, and appropriate to the recipient’s chronological and developmental age, size, gender, and physical, medical, and psychological condition. (b) The Community First Choice personal care services provider agency shall implement written policies and procedures that address

(1) the use of restrictive intervention in regard to the recipient population served by the provider;

(2) a prohibition on the use of

(A) seclusion as a restrictive intervention;

(B) prone restraint; and

(C) chemical restraint;

(3) training in the use of restrictive intervention;

(4) documentation of each event that involves the use of restrictive intervention; and

(5) evaluation of each use of restrictive intervention. (c) The provider agency must have on file written verification that each Community First Choice personal care assistant has received training appropriate to the type of restrictive intervention the provider agency has allowed that personal care assistant to use. (d) A personal care assistant that uses restrictive intervention shall document in the recipient’s record

(1) the date and time:

(2) the duration of time each type of restrictive intervention was used:

(3) a description of the behavior that led to the use of restrictive intervention;

(4) a rationale for, and a description of, each type of restrictive intervention used;