Vision & Values
Vision
To provide quality behavioral health services, develop staff, and to be
an active member of the community, including the larger provider system,
that recognizes, respects, and appreciates the significance of family.
Values
- Self-determination
- Family and individuality
- Competence and specialization
- Professional responsibility
- Integrity
- Respect for people’s rights and dignity
- Concern for the welfare of others
- A process orientation over solution focus
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Situational thinking rather than crisis thinking
- Differentiation over reactivity
- Principle guided behaviors and decisions
- Thoughtfulness
- Intentionality
- Clinically sound service and treatment
- Theory guided interventions
- Theory as the most practical way to go
- Experience and education
- Professionalism
- Continuing professional development
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Excellence
- Congruence within the agency, among staff, and between program
components
- The initiation and continuation of programs and services which
are philosophically congruent with the agency’s purpose, mission,
vision, and values.
And finally…
Flexibility and change within this value system…a bend but don’t break
position…caring enough to continue asking the question, “What is it this
agency will never allow itself to do?”
