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righr before each meeting. A person who does not wish to talk with WPAS staffshall be aflowed to communicate *ris directly and privately to WPAS staff unless he or she ovefily manifests fear of being alone with the WPAS staff. When the individual with a developmental disability overtly manifests such fear by words or behavior, WPAS shall respect that person's desires and not meet alone with that person- C. WPAS will encourage its clients and other individuals with developmental disabilities to noti& DDD and/or providers of complaints regarding DDD services and to resolve those complaints through any existing dispute resolution process. D. WPAS staffshall comply with all safety and security requirements of DDD. DDD will communicate these requirements to WPAS staff. E. DDD employees shall not interfere with WPAS staff in obtaining- a pgylte space for meetings between 'iypaS staff and individuals with developmental disabilities. Private soace dloes not mean a corner of a common area room or other location which would aflord other residents and DDD employees open access to WPAS employees in living areas or on the grotrnds DDD employees shall reipect the confidentialityngeds of the individual with a devdlopmental disabilifu and WPAS. Where an individual wi*r a delelqpme$al,disability indicatbs that he or she does not want to meet in a private space, WPAS staff will respect this request. F. WPAS staffwill not be required to schedule visits with DDD employees in advance of their visits. However, WPAS staffmay contact DDD employees to do so if access to a WPAS client or other individual with a developmental disabiltty will be facilitated due to the individual's daily activities. G. WPAS staffshall have the right to unaccompanied access to any SOLA or program staffed by DDD employees, and acceis to any individual WPAS client or DD consumer they are authorized to serve, subject to the following limitations: (1) While WPAS need not notify the DDD employees.prior to meeting with its ilient or DDD consumer, WPAS agrees not to disturb a client or DDD consumer if the WPAS employee arrives at the residence or other building in which the client or DDD consumer ii served and the client or DDD consumer is engaged in regularly scheduled program activity. In such case, WPAS staff will be permitted to observe or otherwiie veriff the programming without disturbing it. If WPAS staff presence disfurbs or is objected tb bt the WpAS client or any other DDD consumer who is present, WPAS -staff shall make arrangements to meet with the WPAS client or bDD consumer at a later time. Where consulted prior to making an appointment, DDD employees will cooperate with WPAS staff in making scheduling anangements. The WPAS employee shall not disturb nor intemrpt the activity. If the ictivity is confidential, WPAS shall obtain the client or DDD consumer's permission to observe the activity or shall respect the client or DDD consumer's iight to privacy. WPAS statt will then either wait until the actrvtty ts completed or relchedrile the visit at a time that is mutually agreeable to WPAS staff and its individual client or DDD consumer, no later than 48 hours later. (2) If the WPAS employee arrives for a meeting with a client or DDD consumer dna tne individual is actively aggressive, in programming to address this behavior, or receiving "one-to-one" supervision, in such a situation, WPAS staff will be permitted to observe the individual from a safe distance or otherwise veriff that the individual is actively aggressive. WPAS staff will then either: )COMMT]NITY ACCESS AGREEMENT