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Mission, Vision & Values of Addison Behavioral Care, Inc.
Addison Behavioral Care, Inc. originally known as Addison Terrace Learning Center, Inc. was founded in 1982 as a community based non-profit 501 C (3) multicultural substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment agency. The change in name in 2002 more accurately describes out revised vision and mission statements which are as follows:
Mission:
To provide culturally sensitive services to individuals and families that help them focus on their quality of life; specializing in substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment.
Vision:
To live in a world where all individuals, families, and communities are
healthy, safe and prosperous
Values:
Umoja (oo-MOE-jah)
Unity
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race
Kujichagulia (koo-jee-cha-goo-LEE-ah)
Self Determination
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
Ujima (oo-JEE-mah)
Collective Work & Responsibility
To build and maintain our community together and to make our Brother's and sister's problems, our problems and to solve them together
Ujamaa (oo-JAH-mah)
Cooperative Economics
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them
Nia (nee-AH)
Purpose
To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness
Kuumba (koo-OOM-bah)
Creativity
To do always as much as we can, in the way that we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful than when we inherited it.
Imani (ee-MAH-nee)
Faith
To believe with all our hearts in our parents, our teachers, our leaders, our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle