Mission and Goals
Mission
The Consumer and Family Partnership Team (CFPT) was established to empower consumers and families, as well as enhance the perspective of Ohio Department of Mental Health (ODMH) staff by the following:
- Focus on partnering with consumers
- Improve and increase contact and collaboration with consumer groups
- Model behavior to the field
The mission of the CFPT is to increase and strengthen consumer and family representation within ODMH initiatives.
Goals
- Increase the pool of consumers and families identified as equal partners for departmental workgroups
- Increase technical assistance capacity of consumer and family members to ODMH, boards and agencies
- Identify and clarify tangible supports for consumer and family participation
- Increase internal and external communication about consumer and family participation
- Develop an orientation tool to increase consumer and family participation