• FCF's philosophy of service, therapeutic models, and accessibility to clients:
• Philosophy of Service
The delivery of services presented in this proposal will be supported by our:
• Mission to work in partnership with individuals, families, and community resources to help people achieve good health and meaningful living, with an ultimate goal to improve community wellness by promoting hope and recovery for people served by our programs.
• Vision to bolster the initiative of Georgia 's DMHDDAD, for a public mental health system that successfully supports accountability and consumer choice, by providing services that hearten recovery, hope, excellence, respect, and safety.
• Standards:
• Recovery literally means the act of regaining or saving something lost or in danger of becoming lost. Within the context of human services, recovery is the process of gradual healing from the insults and losses that one experiences as the result of severe mental illness, developmental disability, and/or addictive disease.
• Hopeis the wish and expectation that one's desire for recovery can and will be fulfilled.
• Excellenceachieved through empirically proven program design, service delivery, and evaluation of services.
• Respectis a genuine appreciation for the innate value of every person.
• Safety is cultivated through adherence to a professional code of ethics of which the Hippocratic Oath, “first, do no harm," is a cornerstone.
• Priorities:
The values that characterize our model of programming are the three tenets coined by the New York Office of Mental Health that are now being hailed as the ABCs of mental health care:
• Accountability for Outcomes - the Program Coordinator is directly responsible for monitoring the effectiveness of services delivered, and improved consumer care achieved by means of evidence-based treatments and measurable outcomes
• Best Practices - the process by which the design and delivery of services is supported by empirical research and adherence to best practice protocol is monitored to ensure accountability
• Coordination of Services and Programs - assessment of consumer needs and implementation of service plans that include the full range of services required by the consumer based on their individual needs and focused on recovery and resiliency.
• Therapeutic Models
The services currently provided by our organization through existing programs, as well as those proposed in response to the DMHDDAD request are conceptualized in our HOPE model for recovery that incorporates best-practice paradigms of program design, service implementation, and acquiescence to the program model. The critical components of our comprehensive, flexible, client-centered, community-based program of care are: Assessment, Treatment, Crisis Intervention, Case Management, Rehabilitation, Enrichment, Safeguarding of Rights, Fundamental Support, and Self-Help.
• i. Assessment Paradigm
Diagnostic Assessment is a strength-based tool intended to assess factors that compound issues that increase the risks associated with mental health and addictive diseases, as well as compromise individual functioning. Consumer involvement is vital to the process in order to develop service plans that are unique to the individual needs and wants of the consumer. The anticipated outcomes are the identification of problems, strengths and needs, abilities and preferences, natural supports, degree of community integration, as well as risk and stress factors.
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