Frontier Health's vision is to establish and provide accessible, high quality care. Frontier Health, a 501(c) 3, is the area’s leading provider of mental health, substance abuse, co-occurring, developmental and intellectual disabilities, recovery and vocational rehabilitation services for adults, children and youth at 64 sites in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Frontier Health's mission is to provide quality services that encourage people to achieve their full potential. To provide those services, Frontier’s 1,005 employees traveled 1.74 million miles during FY 2014-15 in a 12,000-square-mile coverage area for 48,862 individuals. Frontier Health also provides an adult residential treatment for addiction and/or co-occurring disorders, services for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, domestic violence victims, youth in crisis, runaways, foster care and adoption services. Frontier just received its fifth consecutive three-year term of accreditation through June 2017 for 20 program areas. Frontier Health's Crisis Stabilization Unit served 1,250 individuals during FY 2014-15. At no charge, the crisis team responds to emergencies at 25 area hospitals, and at schools, agencies, physician’s offices and detention centers. Crisis provides help for 24 /7 for those experiencing acute emotional and/or substance abuse problems and community critical incident stress debriefing. Free servcies are juvenile, mental health and drug courts, law enforcement training, parenting classes, suicide prevention, at-risk services for older adults. Follow us on www.facebook.com/frontierhealth to StoptheWhispering or visit www.StoptheWhispering.org
