Vision Statement: "Mentally Healthy People in a Healthy Society"

Mission Statement: "As a leader and champion for mental health, CMHA Lambton Kent provides services and facilitates access to the resources people require to maintain and improve mental health. Our efforts promote community integration, build resilience, and support recovery from mental illness and addictions."

Our Key Values and Principles:

• Embracing the voice of people with mental health issues
• Promoting inclusion
• Working collaboratively
• Influencing the social determinants of health
• Focusing on the mental health needs of all age groups
• Using evidence to inform our work
• Being transparent and accountable

In Lambton Kent, CMHA provides a wide range of innovative and individualized services as well as community and workplace education to over 1800 adults and youth each year. CMHA LK services are client driven, with an integrated organized approach to meet the needs and choices of people who have been diagnosed with mental illness. CMHA services are divided into three categories: Crisis Intervention and Short Term Services, Integrated Client Services, and Mental Health Promotion. The purpose of these services is to help individuals develop and maintain their capacity to achieve their goals and live as independently as possible in the community, and to develop the personal tools they need to lead meaningful and productive lives.