This strategic plan charts the path for DPBH’s future. It provides succinct descriptions of the challenges and opportunities the agency faces, and it provides clear guidance on how the agency will operate collaboratively to achieve improved public and behavioral health outcomes. This plan is also designed to evolve over time to meet changing needs and adapt to new opportunities as they surface. This plan is the result of a comprehensive, division-wide planning process that took place over several months in 2022. The planning process included numerous opportunities for team members, stakeholders, and partners to provide perspectives and input through surveys, town halls, and interviews. It was also informed by a comprehensive review of documents relevant to DPBH’s activities and operations. The result of this process is a strategic planning framework that will define the activities and initiatives of DPBH over the next three years, and potentially longer. The framework includes Mission, Vision, and Purpose statements, as well as an
organizational Mantra. In addition to these statements, this plan also includes specific Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Timelines. Perhaps most important to this framework is that it also provides clear Core Values on which DPBH’s important work is based.