Region IV is committed to providing a comprehensive model of prevention, service, and support for adults and children with mental illness or emotional disturbance, alcohol/drug recovery needs, intellectual or developmental disabilities, or Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia. Region IV strives to provide service options that allow for access to the least restrictive and appropriate level of care and supports. Our agency focuses on strengths of people and their families, is person centered, and driven by the recipient. Region IV is committed to preventing or reducing the unnecessary use of inpatient or institutional services when a person’s needs are met with less intensive or least restrictive levels of care. This philosophy is based on the underlying notion that a person should be the primary force driving their care toward meeting their mental, emotional, and physical recovery and stability. People have meaningful involvement in service planning, decision making, implementation and evaluation of their recovery. Person-driven, family-centered, community-based models lead to successful outcomes.