Stephen Hawking
About ACMH
We Think of Community as a State of the Heart.
Every day, ACMH serves hundreds of people in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Helping those in need develop skills to care for themselves, find housing they need to be safe, and cultivate a network of support to succeed is the manifestation of kindness.
ACMH has been facilitating a wide range of support to people with mental illness for more than 50 years.
ACMH provides outreach and engagement, care coordination, peer support, supportive housing and rehabilitation to adults with serious mental illness, and promotes access to treatment, employment, and other supports and services according to an individualized plan that addresses a client’s strengths, needs, goals, and choices.
Services include assessment, supportive counseling, medication monitoring and training in independent self-administration of medication, training in skills for daily living, training in wellness self-management, alcohol and substance use relapse prevention, health education and linkages, vocational readiness skills building, assistance in accessing entitlement benefits, referral, and care coordination.
OUR MISSION
ACMH is committed to the mental and physical wellbeing of vulnerable New Yorkers.
Our Vision
Empower
Empower everyone whose life we touch to achieve goals important to them
Lead
Be a benchmark for quality and innovation in everything we do
Employ
Be a workplace of choice
Grow
Expand to serve more people in more communities
Promote
Create an intentional culture of antiracism that promotes actionable change at individual, interpersonal and institutional levels
Our Values
Teamwork
Professionalism
Mutual Respect
Continuous Learning
Equity
Commitment To Excellence
Inclusion
ACMH is committed to becoming an anti-racist organization by promoting justice and equity. We are intentional in creating a culture of equity at individual, interpersonal and institutional levels while addressing racism, within and external to ACMH.
Through advocacy, ongoing training, and community partnerships, ACMH strives to end all forms of systemic racism while challenging unconscious bias, addressing racial disparities and creating equal opportunities for staff members and clients.
At ACMH, we strive to hear and learn from each other in an effort to combat hate and reject it in all its forms.