Core Values of Team:

• Fostering a sense of meaning and purpose in participants lives

• Fostering a sense of personal values and commitment to value based living

• Motivating participant's engagement in reaching value consistent goals

• Fostering participant's sense of agency, empowerment, autonomy, and vitality

• Promoting a positive change in the client’s behavior in their environment

• Promoting public safety in the community

• Believing that the participant can become independent from the criminal justice system

• Long-term case planning vs. crisis resolution

  • • Consistent assessment and treatment planning

    • Risk assessment, crisis planning and prevention

• Providing services aligned and integrated with other systems

  • • Collaborating with community partners in case planning

• Relationship building

• Conversations with clients about “behavior in context”

  • • Effectiveness or workability of behavior

    • Values clarification

• Clinical and recovery oriented service delivery

  • • Generalizing skills learned in FCSO to the individual’s natural environment

    • Enhancing individual’s life skills/capacities

    • Supporting individual’s capacity to navigate systems appropriately

    • Behavioral coaching and reinforcement of valid and effective behaviors

    • Effective strategies for working with individuals at different stages of change, supporting readiness to change, relapse prevention and long term recovery:

• Addressing stigma through the empowerment of clients & education of community

• A non-judgmental, “not knowing” stance - the client is the expert

• Family engagement

• Peer support

• Service delivery which is flexible and timely

• A dynamic team approach

• Behaviorist model and a motivational interviewing stance