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OUR VALUES Hope: We believe there is hope and that Recovery is real and possible for everyone who experiences mental health challenges.
Social Inclusion: A barrier-free community is one free from discrimination and stigma where all individuals are included in our community and treated as equals with dignity, compassion, mutual respect and unconditional high regard. Through community involvement and on-going personal contact, we can make a positive impact on people’s hearts and minds about mental health challenges.
Self Determination: Self-determination is essential for recovery to occur. We need to be in control of our own lives and have voluntary choices and options in our community. We define our own life goals and design a unique path toward those goals.
Cultural and linguistic inclusiveness: We embrace the richness of our County’s cultural and linguistic diversity and strive to effectively outreach to and engage historically un-served, underserved or inappropriately served populations.
Empowerment: We believe in increasing the spiritual, political, social and economic strengths of individuals in recovery. This involves developing confidence in our own capacities.
Personal responsibility: We take personal responsibility for our own self-development, self-care and journey of recovery. Through actively engaging in our well-being, we increase our personal strengths.
Strengths-Based: We focus on valuing and building on the multiple capacities, resiliencies, talents, abilities, and uniqueness of individuals. By building on these strengths, we leave the “I can’t” mentality behind and engage in new life roles (e.g., partner, caregiver, friend, student or employee).
Peer Support: We provide mutual support— including the sharing of experiential knowledge and skills and social learning. We encourage and engage other consumers and family members in recovery and provide each other with a sense of belonging, supportive relationships, valued roles, and community.
Collaboration: We collaborate with consumers, their families, mental health providers and the community as a whole to transform the mental health system to a wellness, recovery and resiliency model.
Lived experience: We know each person is an expert on him or herself and we know from our full range of lived experiences what works because WE ARE THE EVIDENCE!
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