Mission

The mission of the Sarah A. Reed’s Children’s Center is to promote the emotional well-being of children and families, helping them to realize their potential and experience success.

Vision

Sarah A. Reed Children's Center will be known throughout the state of Pennsylvania as a model agency and premier provider of children's mental health services. As a teaching/learning organization and applied research and training institute, we will be recognized for our expertise and commitment to quality. We will be known as innovative and dynamic, and a leader in the utilization of research-based, best practice models of treatment and interventions in children's mental health.

 Values

  • Compassion and Understanding

Promote deep awareness of each client and their family’s personal story of what brings them to Sarah A. Reed Children’s Center-their histories, their current life circumstances, their struggles, their concerns, and their needs, etc.

  • Safety

Physical and emotional safety is fundamental, and absolutely essential to creating and maintaining an environment conducive to healing and treatment.

  • Respect

As Sarah A. Reed Children's Center employees we actively attempt to learn about, understand and provide culturally competent services to the people we serve. We demonstrate respect and appreciation for the unique diverse cultural backgrounds of the clients with whom we work. This includes the process of reflecting upon and learning how our own cultural/ethnic/racial/religious identity impacts our own values and beliefs in the provision of mental health services.

  • Excellence

Our agency is committed to continuously examining all facets of the organization to identify areas for improvement in our practices, processes, and services. Our agency embraces and utilizes a Best Practices Model and approach in all of our clinical and therapeutic interactions and therapies.

  • Relationships

As human service providers, we acknowledge the power imbalance inherent in the professional-client relationship. We dually accept the responsibility to take every reasonable action to limit and minimize the impact of this dynamic in the course of providing services to our clients.

  • Innovation

We strive to develop the highest quality programs and services that truly address the needs of children in our communities and schools. Our flexibility by blending traditional and non-traditional treatment strategies and options, and developing partnerships with local communities and school districts geared specifically to combined with reaching out to children and families within their own communities and school districts

  • Financial Viability

We conduct all of our business practices with integrity to protect the agency's assets, and further our ability to carry out our organization's mission.

  • Advocacy

We are a unifying positive voice for children and their families as they strive to improve the quality of their lives. We believe that all children can succeed at home, in school, and in their communities.

  • Ethical Practices and Standards

As Sarah A. Reed Children's Center employees we are committed to upholding the highest standards of ethical practice in the course of our professional roles, responsibilities, and actions. In doing so, we take every reasonable action to protect the welfare of the individuals we serve, regularly engage in careful self-reflection and self-study, promote client and community well being, and engage in activities which promote professional growth and development.

 

 

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