12 Principles
The "Arizona Vision" for children is built on 12 principles to which
ADHS and AHCCCS are both obligated and committed. The Arizona
Vision states:
In collaboration with the child and family and others, Arizona
will provide accessible behavioral health services designed to aid
children to achieve success in school, live with their families, avoid
delinquency, and become stable productive adults.
Services will be tailored to the child and family and provided in
the most appropriate setting, in a timely fashion and in accordance with
best practices, while respecting the child's family's cultural heritage.
1. Collaboration with the child and family
Respect for and active collaboration with the child and parents-
guardian is the cornerstone to achieving positive behavioral health
outcomes. Parents and children are treated as partners in the assessment
process, planning, delivery and evaluation of behavioral health services
and their preferences are taken seriously.
2. Functional outcomes
Behavioral health services are designed and implemented to aid children
to achieve success in school, live with their families, avoid
delinquency and become stable and productive adults. Implementation of
the behavioral health services plan stabilizes the child’s condition and
minimizes safety risks.
3. Collaboration with others
When children have multi-agency, multi-system involvement, a joint
assessment is developed and a jointly established behavioral health
services plan is collaboratively implemented. Client-centered teams plan
and deliver services.
4. Accessible services
Children have access to a comprehensive array of behavioral health
services, sufficient to ensure that they receive the treatment they
need. Plans identify transportation needed for the family to access
behavioral health services and how transportation will be provided.
Behavioral health services are adapted or created when they are needed
by not available.
5. Best practices
Behavioral health services are provided by competent individuals who are
adequately trained and supervised. Services are delivered in accordance
with guidelines adopted by ADHS that incorporate evidence-based ‘best
practices’. Service plans identify and appropriately address symptoms
that are reactions to death of a family member, abuse or neglect,
learning disorders and other similar traumatic or frightening
circumstances, substance abuse problems, specialized behavioral health
needs of children who are developmentally disabled, maladaptive sexual
behavior, including abusive conduct and risky behavior, and the need for
stability and the need to promote permanency in class member’s lives,
especially class members in foster care. Behavioral Health Services are
continuously evaluated and modified if ineffective in achieving desired
outcomes.
6. Most appropriate setting
Children are provided behavioral health services in their home and
community to the extent possible. Services are provided in the most
integrated setting appropriate to the child’s needs. When provided in a
residential setting, the setting is the most integrated and most
home-like setting that is appropriate to the child’s needs.
7. Timeliness
Children identified as needing behavioral health services are assessed
and served promptly.
8. Services tailored to the child and family
The unique strengths and needs of children and their families dictate
the type, mix and intensity of behavioral health services provided.
Parents and children are encouraged and assisted to articulate their own
strengths and needs, the goals they are seeking and what services they
think are required to meet these goals.
9. Stability
Behavioral health service plans strive to minimize multiple placements.
Service plans identify whether a class member is at risk of experiencing
a placement disruption and, if so, identify the steps to be taken to
minimize or eliminate the risk. Service plans anticipate crises that
might develop and include specific strategies and services that will be
employed if a crisis develops. In responding to crises, the behavioral
health system uses all appropriate services to help the child remain at
home, minimize placement disruptions and avoid the inappropriate use of
the police and criminal justice system. Behavioral health service plans
anticipate and appropriately plan for transitions in children’s lives,
including transitions to new schools and new placements and transitions
to adult services.
10. Respect for the child and family’s unique cultural heritage
Behavioral health services are provided in a manner that respects the
cultural traditions and heritage of the child and family. Services are
provided in Spanish to child and parents whose primary language is
Spanish.
11. Independence
Behavioral health services include support and training for parents in
meeting their child’s behavioral health needs and support and training
for children in self-management. Behavioral health service plans
identify parents’ and children’s need for training and support to
participate as partners in the assessment process and in planning,
delivery and evaluation of services and provide that such training and
support, including transportation assistance, advance discussions and
help with understanding written materials will be made available.
12. Connection to natural supports
The Behavioral Health system identifies and appropriately utilizes
natural supports available from the child and parents’ own network of
associates, including friends and neighbors and from community
organizations, including service and religious organizations.
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The 12 Principles
