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Raise a New Hampshire rights or service complaint
Document the issue and use the provider, Area Agency, He-M 202, or BDS route without losing a separate appeal or safety report.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Use New Hampshire developmental-services rights proceduresBefore you start
- Issue summary, dates, people contacted, requested correction, notice if any, current risk, incident facts, prior attempts, rights involved, and desired response.
Who to contact
Use the official Area Agency, DHHS, NH EASY, service-coordination, provider, complaint, hearing, crisis, or protective-report route that owns this step.
Step by step
- Start with the provider and service coordinator when safe and appropriate.
- Use the He-M 202 rights-protection complaint process for a covered rights, abuse, neglect, exploitation, or unjust-action allegation.
- Use the notice-specific appeal for an adverse action and APS, law enforcement, or emergency routes for safety.
Expected next
A written response, corrective action, complaint investigation, appeal event, protective response, or closure.
Save this proof
Issue log, complaint, submission proof, responses, incident records, findings, and corrections.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Ask BDS or the Office of Client and Legal Services to identify the owner while preserving separate appeal and safety routes.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Raise a New Hampshire rights or service complaint checklist
A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.
- Owner and program
- Date started
- Documents supplied
- Written result or confirmation
- Current open dependency
- Next event and date
- Escalation contact
Derived from Read New Hampshire's current He-M 500 rules, Use New Hampshire developmental-services rights procedures
Official resources
Limits
A service complaint, rights complaint, incident report, hearing, APS report, law-enforcement report, and emergency response are separate.
Beyond Childhood’s checklists and prompts are planning aids derived from official sources. They are not official forms, legal advice, eligibility decisions, or guarantees of funding, capacity, quality, or service.