The Counseling Center Executive Summary

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Vision

• The vision of The Counseling Center is to create a behavioral healthcare system that is capable of upholding, supporting, and maintaining recovery of our clients. Furthermore, this vision includes providing culturally competent, holistic, and wellness focused services that promotes social-emotional development, prevent development of mental health challenges, and address social-emotional problems that currently exist. The Counseling Center achieves these tasks by using evidence-based strategies in our services; by supporting staff training and well-being; by implementing effective mental health consultation to children, families, and staff; by continuing to strive for excellence in supporting mental health for all clients and staff. …show more content…

Moreover, the center relentlessly seeks appropriate resources to meet our clients ' needs.

• The Counseling Center assists clients in determining what is right or wrong for them; what works or does not work for them. Furthermore, the center maintain clients ' rights and advocate for them. In addition, the center encourages clients to remain steadfast in their recovery. Finally, the center supports clients in achieving a healthy balance between legitimate needs versus excessive desires.

• The Counseling Center upholds moral and ethical principles in our daily practice and in delivery of services. The clients of the center have charged their wellness to our professional care and expect to be treated, and to receive treatment, in a manner that honors professional codes and standards. Likewise, the center embraces these attributes throughout our practice of service as our clients ' well-being is foremost in the minds and hearts of everyone associated within the …show more content…

• The Counseling Center provides referrals for other mental health services that exceed our scope of care, as needed or requested by clients.

• The Counseling Center endorses research/assessment related to evaluation of services and strategic planning.
Evaluation

The Counseling Center will develop and maintain a system of comprehensive documentation of all components of the counseling organization. The documentation will include resources that have been utilized in program management and delivery along with counselor activity and time logs. This information will be maintained in a portfolio system, either electronically or in hard copy formats. It should be readily available for periodic analysis and subsequent program revisions if necessary. The following procedural steps will define the specific data to be collected and analyzed.

• To evaluate the effectiveness of programs offered by the organization including outcome data, client satisfaction survey data and feedback from related services.

• All services of the program are evaluated regularly.

• There are consistent clearly defined data collection procedures in

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