Welcome to the Recovery Empowerment Network of Maricopa County
Our Vision:
Wellness, Voice & Choice
Our Mission Statement:
To provide peer-owned and operated services; to provide a unified
voice for behavioral health consumers of Maricopa County and to work
to change or enhance a service delivery system which meets the needs
and desires of the people we are charged to serve.
Organizational Values
- Honesty: We believe in honesty in words and actions.
Honesty allows us to earn respect, to build and maintain
credibility and accountability, and to grow as a network in a
healthy way. Honesty is what brings and holds together a community.
- Community: We believe in community, building and
sustaining connections that value each person's contributions.
Community provides a safe place for each person to have a voice,
to belong, to contribute, to allow unique gifts to flourish, and
to encourage involvement from each member.
- Empowerment: We believe in empowerment, supporting each
other and sharing knowledge and resources that futher recovery.
Personal and Organizational empowerment strengthens us all to make
choices, to find and fulfill our potential and our goals.
- Support: We believe in support, the foundation of
recovery. Support is an expression of caring, compassion, and love
that plants a seed of hope. Support shows that we value all
individuals, no matter that their struggles. As we support each
other, we build connection and community.
- Responsibility: We believe in personal and professional
responsibility, supporting all members in claiming ownership over
our individual recovery journeys. Nurturing personal
responsibility shows respect for our strengths and honors each
person's voice. Responsibility asks that we live each day with
integrity. We take responsibility for our actions by protecting
the confidentiality of members and others.
- Opportunity: We believe in opportunity, opening doors
to growth, new ideas, and choice. Opportunity creates hope by
providing a path to the fulfillment of goals and dreams.
- Equality: We believe in equality, honoring the value of
each person's contribution. Equality invites people with all kinds
of experience to share our knowledge and skills with each other,
strengthening all of us. Our diversity enriches the Recovery
Empowerment Network, and we actively seek to include as equals any
person who seeks services and/or membership.
- Trust: We believe in trust, having faith in each other
and in our ability to fulfill our potential. Trust grows when we
feel safe from abuse, assault, or exploitation. Actively employing
our organizational values in all activities increases our trust in
our coworkers, our members, and the community at large.