CORPORATE COMPLIANCE PLAN

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:

Community Mental Health Council, Inc., (CMHC) has adopted a Corporate Compliance Plan. This Corporate Compliance Plan (hereafter referred to as the "Plan") has been adopted in accordance with industry standards relative to the maintenance of such Plans.

POLICY:

In accordance with our Mission and Philosophy, we are committed to providing quality, comprehensive, relevant, and accessible services to children, families, and adults who present with serious emotional disturbance and serious mental illness. We believe that those we serve all have potential and deserve our respect. We believe that those we work with have the ability, to varying degrees, to recover, and that it is our job to help them with this process. We are here to assist people in the process of change, not to 'change them'. We believe that society in general is better off when it is able to embrace and accept people with disabilities. This is why we provide community education and legislative advocacy. This is also why we use 'people first language.' This philosophy is key to our work and it is important that all staff work with this in mind.