Mission:
Promote and enhance the quality of life for residents of our community through a commitment to excellence in alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services.
Vision:
Alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services will be available and accessible for every county resident in need and the ADAMHS Board will provide a preeminent, seamless and integrated system of care.
Values:
For our Consumers and Clients, we value:
- Understanding that we are here to ensure superior services to our Consumers and Clients.
- Treating Consumers and Clients with dignity and respect.
- Listening to concerns of Consumers and Clients and answering all questions with patience and clarity.
- Including participation and input from Consumers and Clients, family members and advocates as partners in planning alcohol, drug addiction and mental health services, changes and special events.
- Working collaboratively with stakeholders to link and improve services for Consumers and Clients thereby assuring easy access.
- Encouraging empowerment of Consumers and Clients as they work toward their own recovery.
- Advocating for Consumers and Clients with enthusiasm, compassion, current knowledge and information.
- Working to obtain/keep Medicaid for Consumers and Clients.
- Emphasizing the importance of employment, housing and education/training for Consumers and Clients.
For our Providers, we value:
- Eliminating duplicative efforts whenever possible.
- Utilizing existing data whenever possible.
- Avoiding excessive new data reporting requirements.
- Holding Providers accountable and responsible for quality services.
- Using indicators of quality improvement and technical assistance as tools, as opposed to punishment.
- Using timely, practical and relevant data.
- Seeking and utilizing Provider input in quality improvement initiatives.
- Sharing the summary of results and conclusions with Providers.
- Encouraging evidence‐based best practices.
- Cooperating with Providers, utilizing transparency and open communication in all areas.
Our Logo
The emblem is a stylistic “A.” An organic shape with its “feet” firmly planted, it can represent many images – a mountain, a bridge, an umbrella, or stepping stones – each of which symbolize the many paths to recovery.
The colors are contemporary and fresh, with each invoking a different emotion: yellow evokes positivity; pink evokes innocence, and health; blue evokes authority, dignity, security, and faithfulness; purple evokes sophistication, and spirituality and green evokes tranquility, health and, freshness.
The gender-neutral colors signify the variety of programs that the ADAMHS Board funds, as well as the diversity of the population it serves.