Our Core Beliefs
Our Mission
Our mission is to strengthen, encourage and enhance the quality of life of our clients and families by providing exceptional client focused mental and behavioral healthcare support services, tailored to meet the individual needs of our clientele, while utilizing positive behavior support.
Our Vision
Our vision is to promote inclusivity by providing positive behavioral modification services to, at risk adolescents, youth and adults of various abilities, ethnicities, genders and economic statuses. We provide therapeutic services that are dignified and enriching to our clients lives.
Our Core Values
Dignity
We provide services that embody compassion, empathy and respect for all human being’s autonomy, regardless of their functional level.
Integrity
We provide accountable, honest, responsible and informed evidence based services to our clientele. Practicing the highest standards of mental and behavioral health services by embodying the ethical standards that govern our profession.
Excellence
We ensure that our employees are continuously trained in the highest standard of evidence based services and therapies within the mental and behavioral health industry. By recognizing the unique needs of diverse populations and implementing comprehensive and culturally competent and responsive services and programing, we guarantee quality services.
Mental Health Facts from American Psychiatric Association
Mental Health Disparities: Diverse Populations (psychiatry.org)
Although rates of depression are lower in blacks (24.6%) and Hispanics (19.6%) than in European Americans (34.7%), depression in Black Americans and Hispanics is likely to be more persistent.
American Indians/Alaskan Natives report higher rates of posttraumatic stress disorder and alcohol dependence than any other ethic/ racial group.
Mental health problems are common among people in the criminal justice system, which has a disproportionate representation of racial/ ethnic minorities. Approximately 50% to 75% of youth in the juvenile justice system meet criteria for a mental health disorder
Among all racial/ethnic groups, except American Indian/Alaska Native, women are much more likely to receive mental health services than men.
People who identify as being two or more races (24.9%) are most likely to report any mental illness within the past year than any other race/ethnic group, followed by American Indian/Alaska Natives (22.7%), European American (19%), and Black American (16.8%)
European Americans are more likely to die by suicide than people of other ethnic/racial groups.
Lack of cultural understanding by health care providers may contribute to underdiagnosis and/or misdiagnosis of mental illness in people from racially/ethnically diverse populations. Factors that contribute to these kinds of misdiagnoses include language differences between patient and provider, stigma of mental illness among minority groups, and cultural presentation of symptoms.