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Mission, Vision, and Values

Mission

  • DDPC is dedicated to reducing the burden of mental illness on individuals in our care, on their family members, and on our shared community.

Vision

  • We collaborate with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness and with their community and personal supports to provide respectful, compassionate, and effective psychiatric care and treatment in the least restrictive, safest, and most therapeutic environment we can create.
  • We focus on enhancing symptom management, promoting skill development, increasing knowledge, and challenging people to use their strengths to lead more hopeful and autonomous lives.
  • We devote ourselves to the most timely return of those we serve to a more independent, sustainable and hopeful life in the community.

Values

  • We treat everyone we serve and everyone with whom we work with compassion, with dignity, and with respect.
  • Strive for Excellence. Exceed Expectations
  • Value The Person. Treat The Illness.
  • Believe In Growth And Change.
  • Respect Boundaries.
  • Every Day Matters.
  • Never Give Up.