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Our Mission

Carrington's mission is to provide sanctuary with innovative, effective, short-term residential and outpatient behavioral health services to youth and their families, building on strengths to promote recovery, positive relationships, and successful integration into the community.

Our Vision

Carrington's vision is to become an innovative leader and provider of world class behavioral health, addiction, and residential care.

Our Core Values

• The recognition of each individual’s needs, striving to meet and exceed those needs through a compassionate, structured, nurturing and person-centered environment
• We include clients and their families in all phases of assessment, treatment planning, interventions, and discharge planning so that their needs are identified and met according to their personal goals
• Employing highly skilled and educated personnel to provide a quality continuum of services.
• Striving to provide an environment that supports the participation of the youth, those involved with him/her and the service providers.
• Encouraging a philosophy of continuous quality improvement throughout the organization.
• Embracing the opportunity to create liaison relationships with local, regional and statewide social service and judicial systems to provide mutually beneficial and supportive functions.
• Providing an onsite innovative individualized education program through collaboration with educational partners.
• Encouraging structured family involvement to improve outcomes.
• Providing Trauma Informed Care modalities to those in the residential and behavioral health programs.

With the mission and core values, the organization is proactive and ready to meet challenges from the external environment and to prepare our youth and community clients to become assets to themselves, their families and their communities.

OUR PURPOSE

Carrington provides person centered, trauma informed outpatient behavioral health services to children and adults in the Cleveland and East Cleveland Communities. During our assessment sessions, behavioral health and addictions needs are identified and prioritized. Outpatient assessment, individual, family and group therapies are offered, as well as addiction services for adults and children.

For our residential clients, Carrington recognizes that there are children with severe emotional, as well as social, disabilities that require treatment and rehabilitative services in a residential setting. Systems of care like Carrington's Children’s Residential Centers help children with emotional disturbances, and their families, cope with the challenges of difficult mental, emotional or behavioral problems with the primary goal of reuniting child and family as soon as possible. For these children, it is necessary to have a high level of supervision, structure and trauma informed therapeutic services to overcome behavior, which may threaten the safety of the individual, the individual's family, or community. Recognizing residential treatment as an intervention in the continuity of care, the goal is to transition back to a less-restrictive setting. Carrington will provide a clinically informed respite—an intervention to help a family restore equilibrium, stability and afford sanctuary, working in full and active partnership with state and county agencies, schools, parents and the community.