MISSION STATEMENT
The San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc. is moving lives forward with compassionate, trauma-informed behavioral health services that empower individuals, strengthen families and transform communities across the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles County.
VISION STATEMENT
To create a future where equitable behavioral health care is accessible to all, breaking barriers, fostering resilience, and building thriving communities in the San Fernando Valley and beyond.
VALUES
- Integrity – We conduct ourselves professionally, according to the highest ethical standards.
- Respect – We recognize the uniqueness of every individual and treat all people in a way that affirms their personal worth.
- Empathy – We respect each individual’s diversity and offer understanding and respect for the individual and cultural identity of clients, families and staff.
- Accountability – We take responsibility for our choices and the outcomes and follow through on commitments. We are committed to continuous quality improvement in our management, policies, client services and are open and receptive to make changes and improve as needed.
- Collaboration – We work together toward common goals by partnering with the whole community, sharing knowledge, building consensus and sharing decision making.
- Dedication – We will do whatever it takes to improve the lives of our consumers and communities.
- Transparency – We openly convey our ideas, decisions, and outcomes to ensure trust in the Center.
- Quality and Excellence – We identify with the highest personal, organizational, professional, and clinical standard and commit ourselves to achieving those standards by continually improving every aspect of our performance.
- Empower, Heal, Support: We apply whole-person care to services, which leads to recovery and provides the tools needed to lead healthy and productive lives. We approach services with well-being in mind for clients, staff and the community and champion the need for self-care, maintaining work/life balance, and addressing compassion fatigue.
- Trauma-informed – Our staff acknowledges the pervasiveness of trauma and the need to understand our consumer’s diverse life experiences. As a response all staff are trained to be responsive to this reality using evidence-based strategies.
MORE ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS
Programs serve infants, toddlers, children, adolescents and transition age youth diagnosed with serious emotional disorders, in addition to adults and older adults diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness. The Center is committed to treating all consumers with dignity and enhancing their quality of life.
Through its programs and services, the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc. strives to:
- Facilitate and encourage the development of each consumer to his/her highest level of functioning and potential including vocational opportunities.
- Provide effective and culturally sensitive therapeutic services based on each consumer’s individualized needs, strengths and choices.
- Maximize the involvement of consumers and family members in planning, evaluation and implementation of services.
- Provide a continuum of therapeutic programs that include appropriate alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization and effectively serve consumers in the least restrictive setting possible.
- Provide early intervention programs that serve to prevent the onset of mental illness or the development of more serious mental illness.
- Eliminate negative perceptions and increase awareness and understanding of mental illness.
- Promote the highest level of social inclusion and community integration for all persons served.
- Provide education on current issues and problems in the community to citizens and community agencies.
The Center is quite proud of our achievements. We have received numerous awards from local and state legislators who recognize the outstanding work we do here at the Center. Over 90% of every dollar donated goes directly to programs and services.
We are members of:
Association of Community Human Service Agencies (ACHSA)
United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
We are also certified with the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).
Our Tax ID number is 95-6194487.
