CIMH Mission

The mission of CIMH is to promote excellence in mental health services through training, technical assistance, research, and policy development.

CIMH Values 

• Consumers, family members, providers, and policymakers must work in partnership to assure that services enhance each individual's integrity and dignity.
• Healthy communities are measured by the extent to which persons with psychiatric disabilities can lead meaningful and productive lives free of stigma and discrimination.
• Mental health systems must be culturally and linguistically competent in order to be effective.
• All people, regardless of resources, must have access to necessary mental health services.
• Mental health systems must be organizations in which people are valued, safe, eager to work, and which funders are proud to support.
• Excellence in mental health services is grounded in capacity building and support to local systems and their partners.
• Collaboration of the mental health system with the community and with other human services is essential to the resilience, recovery, and wellness of adults and children with mental illness and emotional disturbance.
• Mental health systems must be accountable, cost effective, and must achieve positive outcomes.
• The California mental health system must reflect and promote the values and needs of individual consumers, families and local mental health systems.
• Scientific information must be utilized in mental health system planning and service delivery with a focus on positive consumer outcomes. However, evidence based practices are relevant only when various levels of scientific evidence and stakeholder values are factored together.

CIMH Goals

The primary goals of CIMH are to:

• Make use of constituent partnerships throughout CIMH activities to promote integrity and dignity, to eliminate stigma and discrimination, and to promote community involvement in mental health and wellness.
• Work to build healthy communities and reduce stigma and discrimination by supporting resilience, recovery, and self-determination for people with psychiatric disabilities.
• Support the continuous development of a mental health system that sustains effective practices for people who are diverse in race, culture, ethnicity, language, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and life span.
• Promote a mental health system that is accountable and that enhances providers' knowledge and skills of effective outreach, engagement, treatment, support, and retention practices.
• Support the on-going training and recruitment of culturally competent human resources who are dedicated to improving quality in the workplace.
• Identify priority areas for trainings, technical assistance, research, and policy analysis that impact and improve the local mental health systems.
• Maintain, develop, and strengthen partnerships with the community and other human services to define and enhance shared values and goals and to collaborate in the development of CIMH projects.
• Assist mental health systems and its partners, with continuous quality improvement (CQI) through the dissemination and diffusion of effective programs and practices.
• Improve local mental health services systems and its partners by actively participating in national initiatives.
• Provide research, training, technical assistance, and policy development that have a strong base of evidence and reflect CIMH values.