Our Mission, Vision, & Principles

Acadia Healthcare stands as an industry thought leader that is dedicated to providing optimal clinical care, meeting the unique needs of each of our patients, and working to destigmatize the worldview of mental health and addiction concerns.

Our Mission

Acadia Healthcare’s purpose is to Lead Care With Light and our mission is to be a world-class organization that sets the standard for excellence in the treatment of mental health and addiction concerns. We strive to maintain our standing as a thought leader in the behavioral healthcare industry, providing treatment that is synonymous with compassion and innovation.

To our patients, we commit ourselves to providing quality, individualized care at treatment facilities that offer them a supportive, caring environment in which they can regain hope.

To our employees, we commit ourselves to offering an enviable internal culture that encourages them both personally and professionally, supporting them as they reach their career goals and achieve to their greatest potential.

To the professionals with whom we work, we commit ourselves to developing partnerships that promote respect and integrity through collaboration as we work together to better serve our communities.

At Acadia Healthcare, we strive in all that we do to make the facilities within our treatment network stand out from others through the delivery of compassionate, clinically excellent care that places the needs of others above all else.

Our Vision

Acadia Healthcare’s vision is to promote comprehensive and integrated care to improve the mental well-being of the children, adolescents, and adults we serve. Our competencies allow us to stand as a leader in the behavioral healthcare industry through the work that we do with patients, investors, and other industry professionals as we strive to continuously improve the behavioral healthcare space.

Our vision is demonstrated through our:

  • Understanding of and sensitivity to our patients and their families
  • Appreciation and integrated application of the most current, evidence-based practices of psychotherapy, psychodynamic clinical care, and psychoeducation
  • Engagement and cooperation with the people and organizations who work together for the benefit of the patients we serve

Our Principles

  • Understanding of and sensitivity to our patients and their families;
  • Appreciation and practical integrated application of the most current practices of psychotherapy, psycho-dynamic clinical care, and psycho-education;
  • Engagement and cooperation with the persons and organizations working together for the benefit of our patients;
  • Commitment to promote and improve the mental well-being of our community.

Our Commitment

At Acadia Healthcare, our commitment to our patients, our employees and the communities we serve extends beyond the provision of clinically excellent care. We respect and honor every individual, and we demonstrate this through the dignity and compassion that we show every patient.

As part of our mission as a behavioral healthcare company, Acadia embraces diversity and inclusion.  We believe diversity plays a significant part of what makes the services we provide so exceptional. Diversity provides an opportunity to learn from what others experience, and those experiences help shape how we deliver treatment, how we define our culture and how we achieve our business objectives.

As Acadia, our industry and our nation navigate an everchanging world, we remain steadfast in maintaining a culture that encourages sensitivity and supports an understanding of others.  We will continue to provide a safe and welcoming environment to everyone who is in need of our help and services.

At Acadia Healthcare, we improve the lives we touch.

Our National Placement Services
  • Children's Behavioral Solutions
  • Military & Family Support Services
  • Treatment Placement Specialists

Our National Affiliations & Organizations
  • Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
  • National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
  • National Association for Behavioral Healthcare
  • National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP)
  • The Jason Foundation
  • The Joint Commission (JCAHO) Gold Seal of Approval