Program Goals
The programs and services David’s Harp provides:
| Create | a sense of caring community and family for members |
| Foster | friendships and social skills through group activities |
| Integrate | members with their community through group outings to stores, parks, restaurants and points of interest throughout Oregon |
| Empower | members by giving them responsibility for, and ownership of, many activities, games, projects, events and celebrations held at David’s Harp |
| Reinforce | healthy habits essential to daily living |
| Inspire | the next generation of mental health and social work professionals by serving as a student practicum site and career opportunity role model |
| Respond | to members’ limitations and interests by continuing and expanding programs that are meaningful to them |
| Model | social boundaries and values to encourage healthier and more effective interaction with other individuals and within the community |
| Encourage | you to join us in our mission! |
“Without treatment the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering: unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives; the economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each year in the United States.”
– National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2011
