12 PRINCIPLES

1. Collaboration with the child and family

Grace of Serenity Living collaborates with and respects the client and parents as this is essential in achieving positive behavioral health outcomes.

2. Functional outcomes

Grace of Serenity Living behavioral health services are created and implemented to return clients to live with their families, avoid delinquency, achieve success in their education and become stable and productive adults.

3. Collaboration with others

Community resources and supports are accessed whenever possible to provide natural pathways to assistance for families with ongoing needs.

4. Accessible Services

Grace of Serenity Living collaborates with clients, parents and other agencies to ensure that clients have access and transportation to needed services.

5. Best practices

Grace of Serenity Living programs and staff are developed in accordance with evidence-based "best practice" guidelines that are adopted by the Arizona Department of Human Services.

6. Most appropriate setting

Grace of Serenity Living provides services to children in their home and community whenever possible. When services need to be required in a residential setting, the residence is home-like and comfortable.

7. Timeliness

Grace of Serenity Living provides timely services to children and families with identified needs.

8. Services tailored to the child and family

Grace of Serenity Living enlists clients and parents to articulate their various strengths, needs, and desires in order to collaborate on treatment planning.

9. Stability

Grace of Serenity Living strives to minimize multiple placements that can hinder the treatment process.

10. Respect for the child and family's unique cultural heritage

Grace of Serenity Living views the unique cultural heritage of clients as integral to the emotional health of the family system and provides services in a manner that reflects this view.

11. Independence

Grace of Serenity Living assists the client and family in learning and practicing the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for the ongoing care of their loved ones with behavorial health needs.

12. Connection to natural supports

Grace of Serenity Living recognizes that it 'takes a village to raise a child' and that community supports will be the most accessible to the family.