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Everything StrongSteps does begins with a belief that people deserve access to support, resources, connection, opportunity, and hope. Our mission guides what we do today. Our vision guides what we’re building for tomorrow.
The mission of StrongSteps Behavioral Health Foundation is to strengthen individuals, families, and communities by expanding access to behavioral-health support, connecting people with resources, promoting recovery and independence, providing education, and creating opportunities for meaningful community connection.
Our mission reaches beyond any single service or program. It is reflected in every person we support, every resource connection, every peer relationship, and every partnership.
Every step forward matters. StrongSteps exists to help make those steps possible.
Help make behavioral-health support, information, and resources easier to find and understand.
Connecting with people who understand behavioral health challenges, recovery and systems from a personal perspective. Focused on empowerment, self-direction, strengths and personal goals.
Support people in building skills, confidence, stability, and greater control over their lives.
Recognize the knowledge, perspective, and connection that people with lived experience bring to behavioral health.
Help individuals and families better understand available community supports and possible next steps.
Create opportunities for people to learn about behavioral health, recovery, resources, and ways to support others.
Recognize the important role families and natural supports can play in behavioral health and recovery.
Create programs, events, partnerships, and opportunities that bring people together.
Help people see that another step forward is possible.
Finding support doesn't require understanding an entire behavioral-health system first.
Behavioral health becomes part of everyday conversation without shame or stigma.
Individuals and families can move between services, resources, and community supports without feeling completely on their own.
Providers, nonprofits, businesses, schools, government, and residents recognize that collaboration creates stronger systems.
People are recognized for their strengths, possibilities, and goals, not defined only by challenges.
Housing, employment, education, relationships, finances, transportation, food, and belonging are all part of well-being.
People who have navigated behavioral-health challenges and recovery have meaningful roles in shaping support.
People can see examples of recovery, resilience, community, and possibility around them.
Families can better understand available resources and ways to support the people they care about.
Provide behavioral-health, peer, recovery, navigation, and community-based support.
Help people understand options and connect with appropriate resources.
Create opportunities for awareness, storytelling, education, connection, and hope.
Work with organizations and communities to strengthen networks of support.
Create more opportunities for people to take stronger steps forward.
Every person deserves respect. People should be treated as people first.
Another step forward is possible. Circumstances can change and people can grow.
People shouldn't have to navigate everything alone.
Support should build strength, skills, and informed choices.
People should have a voice in their own lives and their own definition of recovery.
Experience is knowledge that cannot be learned from a textbook alone.
Strong people need strong communities. Individual and community well-being are connected.
A resource only helps if someone can find it, understand it, and use it.
We can accomplish more together. No organization can meet every need.
Everyone should have a place in community: welcomed, respected, and heard.
Behavioral-health systems require policies, paperwork, eligibility rules and funding. Those systems exist because there are people who need support.
So we start with questions: What matters to you? What are your goals? What strengths do you already have? What's getting in the way?
For one person, progress might mean returning to work. For another, reconnecting with family, finding stable housing, going back to school, or simply asking for support for the first time.
You should have a real say in naming your own goals and deciding what progress means for you.
Peer support is built on mutuality: the belief that people can learn, grow, recover, and move forward.
Families and natural supports matter too. They may be trying to understand what's happening, looking for resources, or needing support themselves.
Sharing stories of support, recovery, resilience, mental health, and hope.
A community awareness initiative using stories and names to honor lives, create conversation, and support suicide prevention awareness.
Bringing businesses, donors, volunteers, and communities together to help individuals and families during the holiday season.
A community-centered experience bringing together resources, education, activities, organizations, and opportunities for connection.
Educational opportunities designed to increase understanding, awareness, and knowledge of behavioral health and community resources.
Community events that raise awareness, build partnerships, and support the mission.
Behavioral-health systems can be hard to navigate. We want you to have a clear place to begin.
You don't need to know which program you qualify for, which acronym applies, or which provider you need. Start by telling us what you're looking for.
No. You can contact StrongSteps and tell us what kind of support you are looking for. We can help you explore possible options.
Yes. Family members, caregivers, providers, and community partners may contact StrongSteps for general information. Privacy and consent requirements may affect what information can be shared or what actions can be taken on another person's behalf.
No. Registration allows StrongSteps to review your request. Eligibility, availability, program requirements, and funding may affect enrollment.
StrongSteps may help eligible individuals connect with housing, food, benefits, and basic-needs resources. Available support may vary by program and location.
In every program. Every connection. Every resource. Every story. Every partnership. Every person who takes another step forward. Stronger people. Stronger families. Stronger communities.
