Disability Rights California and the Consumer Affairs program under Santa Clara County Behavioral Health will present a Residents’ Rights Workshop. This workshop will focus on informing consumers and families about their rights in licensed adult residential facilities (board and care homes), as well as relevant landlord tenant protections in licensed and unlicensed community facilities. The collective experience of various consumer providers along with stories of substandard living conditions and mistreatment of residents told by consumers, family members and clinicians informed creation of this workshop. The agencies involved in this effort are currently focused on building a coalition of room and board operators, consumer leaders, attorneys, residents, family members and members of affiliated agencies. Join us in the auditorium of Good Samaritan Hospital (in the basement of the main building) at 7:30 P.M. for an information meeting followed by the presentation from 8-9 P.M. including Q&A. NOTE: Good Samaritan Hospital is located at 2425 Samaritan Drive, San Jose. For directions, go to www.maps.yahoo.com.
