Guiding Principles

Massachusetts Mental Health Center is committed to the following guiding principles:

• Promoting client independence, rehabilitation and recovery

• Promoting the strengths of clients

• Supporting the overall health and wellness of clients

• Helping clients maintain connections to family, neighborhood support systems and community resources

• Focusing support on the most vulnerable clients, including those who are homeless

• Providing mobile, flexible services that are responsive to changing demographics of clients and their families

• Eliminating barriers to services

• Using treatment approaches that are evidence-based

• Exploring and applying new technologies to ensure quality, efficiency and cost-effectiveness

• Maintaining a setting where staff have opportunities for growth and learning, and are provided with clear and uniform standards of practice

• Fully integrating trainees, students and interns into the clinical service system