Mission & Vision

Mission: 

      In partnership with individuals, families, and our community, CMHS, Inc. provides the highest quality behavioral health services.

Vision:

      All persons will be free to lead meaningful and purposeful lives beyond the limitations of mental illness and addictions.

Values:

• Client-Centered Care - We believe that services should be designed around the needs and desires of individuals and families, and should empower them to make appropriate choices regarding their educational, employment, social, and treatment opportunities.
• Dignity, Respect, & Ethics - We believe that people should be treated with respect and dignity and in a just and ethical manner.
• Valued Staff - We believe that the staff are the organization's most valuable and important resource.
• Accessibility - We believe that people deserve services that are easily accessible and affordable.
• Cultural Diversity - We believe that people should be valued and receive services that reflect and respect their culture, race, age, lifestyles, gender, sexual orientation, religious practice, and ethnicity.
• Competence - We believe that people should receive services delivered by staff who are skilled, trained, and competent.
• Prevention & Early Intervention - We believe that people should receive immediate and preventive care rather than long-term remedial care.

 Goals

ü To provide, coordinate, and promote the development of a continuum of community-based services that are provided in the least restrictive environment possible.

ü To provide, coordinate, and promote a system that emphasizes human values, protects individual rights, supports families, enhances the potential for self-sufficiency, and maximizes human resources.

ü To provide the best possible services in the most cost effective manner possible.

ü To maximize staff resources through effective selection, training and incentives.

ü To be accountable to all constituents of CMHS, Inc.

ü To maximize citizen participation in program planning, evaluation, funding and advocacy of mental health services.

ü To achieve a level of financial self-sufficiency which maximizes the degree of local support in conjunction with encouraging equitable and rational distribution of state and federal funding.

ü To develop a system of services which assures geographic,      

ü cultural, financial, and physical accessibility.

ü To provide prevention and education services to the community in cooperation and coordination with other community providers.