Mission

Mountain Crisis Services and our associated programs seek to prevent domestic and sexual violence by

• advocating for positive changes in the societal systems that may lead to oppression,

• fostering a better understanding of domestic and sexual violence through community education, and

• providing culturally relevant direct services that empower victims of abuse and their children.
  

Vision

Mountain Crisis Services vision is that every community in which we serve can take pride in having safe homes and safe relationships.

We are committed to provide help and hope to all who have been deprived of these basic human rights and we are dedicated to work collaboratively to build strong, positive, nonviolent communities.

Values

• Confidentiality and Safety: It is vital that confidentiality and personal safety be respected at all times. We, therefore, honor the privacy of Mountain Crisis Service’s clients, staff and volunteers. We support an atmosphere of emotional, verbal, and physical non-violence in our workplace and in our client programs.
• Equality and Empowerment of all People: All individuals have inherent worth and are, therefore, valued equally regardless of gender, race, class, age, country of origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, religion or ability. Empowerment begins with recognizing and knowing that individually and collectively we each have the strength to make necessary change and to accomplish our goals.
• Personal Responsibility: We are trustworthy, reliable, and dependable. We recognize that we make decisions that affect others and ourselves and do so with as much information as possible. We hold ourselves and others accountable for decisions and behaviors within both the agency and the community.
• Professional Integrity: We are honest and ethical in our professional work and relationships. When in public, we behave in such a way that reflects positively on Mountain Crisis Services, and on our community collaborators and partners.
• Respect: It is essential to honor different opinions, styles, genders, races, classes, ages, countries of origin, political affiliations, sexual orientations, religions, and abilities. Respect is reflected in the way we treat our clients, ourselves, and members of the community. We value the ideas, beliefs, and opinions of others, whether or not we agree with them.
• Social Change through Education and Advocacy: We envision a society of non-violence in which abuse in any form is not tolerated. We educate ourselves and community members about the issues relating to family violence and ways in which to end such violence. We advocate in the community for the safety of victims and their children and for an end to family violence.