Values and Goals

All of the programs and efforts of the Gavin Foundation are shaped by a clear set of organizational values and programmatic goals, emphasizing spiritual, mental and social recovery for individuals, families and the community.

Values: Gavin Foundation

• Is built on the foundation of 12-step fellowships of recovery, promoting life style change, life span involvement, and individual and community connections.
• Recognizes that while recovery is initiated in treatment it is sustained over a lifetime by building values and skills in stable, supportive relationships: families, friends, neighbors, society. Treatment and community activities explicitly promote these relationships.
• Recognizes that its greatest asset is people: the recovery capital of alumni, who, always welcome, continue active involvement in the community of recovery.
• Actively participates in its community, drawing from it support and strength, investing in the community’s well-being, and collaborating with community partners to enhance recovery opportunities.
• Embraces those seeking service and their families, by providing a welcoming environment, and creating new programs in response to identified needs.
• Views residents, clients and their families as individuals with different abilities and needs, requiring comprehensive services and prompt responses.
• Views individuals in context of their connections to family and community, values those connections, and promotes repair and strengthening of relationships.
• Ensures that individuals are served by well-supervised, well-trained staff.
• Ensures that residents, clients and families know what they can expect and what is expected of them by operating clearly described and transparent programs.
• Provides effective programs and services, conduct assessments and soliciting feedback from individuals and families regularly.

Goals: To put these values into practice, Gavin Foundation has defined clear programmatic goals. The Foundation seeks to support individuals’ transformations from isolated drug/alcohol using way of life, where harm to self and to others are endemic, to a healthy, responsible and productive way of life within a network of supportive relationships. To achieve this, Gavin Foundation:

• Provides stable transitions through structured programming and clear expectations.
• Promotes self-care, self-reliance, and community responsibility
• Promotes peer support and mentoring
• Promotes 12-step principles of acceptance of the need to abstain from alcohol and other drug use, willingness to participate actively in 12-step fellowships, and work to help others and to improve family relationships.
• Reduces criminal activity and criminal justice involvement by addressing and resolving criminal justice related issues.
• Promotes family involvement and strengthening by providing settings and events for families to be together, and building systems which recognize improved relationships.
• Promotes learning and the desire to learn through formal and informal training programs, generating scholarship support for staff and program graduates
• Actively supports staff development and seeks to improve staff retention.