High-risk practices might hurt a participant to stop them from moving.

For example, someone might:

• hold a participant on the ground
• force a participant to fall to the floor.

Or they might push on a participant’s chest or throat.

It includes practices that affect how a participant:

• breathes
• digests and eats food.

High-risk practices might also include doing things that:

• punish a participant for something they did
• stop a participant from getting the support they need.

They might:

• cause emotional pain to a participant

• stop them from seeing friends and family.

These types of practices include making a participant feel bad for doing something so they won’t do it again.

For example, yelling at a participant when they don’t want to take their medicine.

High-risk practices include keeping a participant away from their culture or community.

Your culture is:

• your way of life
• how you think or act now because of how you grew up
• your beliefs
• what is important to you.

These types of practices also include keeping a participant away from key supports, like:

• their family

• people who speak up for them.

Key supports can also be everyday items that you need, like toilet paper.