GRN is committed to following high ethical standards in conducting business and providing services. Employees of the GRN Community Service Board are expected to adhere to high moral and ethical standards.
- All GRN staff will conduct themselves in compliance with GRN's ethical standards and the standards as reflected in the GRN mission, values and goals.
- GRN exists to provide quality services to persons in need. Therefore, the overriding concern of each staff member must be the welfare of the persons served. The individual dignity of each person served must be respected at all times and upon all occasions.
- Information regarding persons served will be held in the strictest confidence and will not be released without the permission of the person served or as provided by law.
- Persons served will be billed for only those services rendered.
- Full information will be provided to persons served on the source of the organization's reimbursement and any limitations placed on the duration of services.
- GRN staff are prohibited from engaging in business transactions with persons served for money or exchange of goods or services. Staff are not to borrow or lend money to persons served.
- GRN staff are prohibited from giving gifts to or receiving gifts from persons served.
- GRN staff are prohibited from dating or engaging in socially or sexually intimate relationships with persons served.
- It is not the intent of GRN to be concerned with the non-working time of GRN staff. However, GRN employees are expected to avoid off-duty conduct that could have a detrimental effect on GRN operations or bring discredit to the organization.
- GRN will communicate its ethical standards to persons served during orientation and will make them available in writing at all program locations.
The GRN Community Service Board will investigate all allegations of violations of the above ethics policies. The Executive Director will appoint a person or persons to investigate and will take appropriate action based on the investigation results. The peson making the allegations will be informed of the inestigation results and actions taken. |
