Our Mission

The Mission of the VCRCA is to provide efficient, effective, and accredited community- based residential treatment programs and services to those youth and families who require such services. Further, it is the mission of VCRCA to administer these programs and services with compassion, fairness, expertise, and prudence, with the aim to uphold the dignity and worth of each person who is served.

• To assure adequate funding for the continued operation and development of community based programs necessary to provide services to troubled youth and their families.

• To influence legislation, policies, and standards to improve services for troubled youth and their families.

• To provide a communication forum and other opportunities for community based programs throughout the Commonwealth to share information, and exchange strategies to improve services to court involved youth and families.

• To provide technical assistance among community-based programs.

• To promote on-going training, educational and technical assistance among community based programs.

• To identify and respond to changes that we will be facing within the next 3-5 years.

• To increase our membership.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, 
there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
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