Hands Across Long Island, Inc.

HALI Mission Statement:  HALI is a peer community providing the opportunity for recovery from mental illness through collaborative creative efforts.

HALI Values Statement:  Hands Across Long Island, Inc. strives to excel and believes strongly in the capacity of others to excel.  People are the bedrock of organizations, and we invest in human potential- in ourselves, in community leaders with vision and passion, and in individuals and communities dedicated to transforming themselves.  We value efforts where those who benefit have the chance to shape their own path to self-determination, and we help them create their own opportunities where barriers often exist.

HALI Vision Statement:  Hands Across Long Island will continue to create vital programs which provide empowerment, strength, and assistance in the recovery process of psychiatric consumers and survivors. Our vision for the future includes:

• Creating a technical program to provide the replication and expansion of “HALI” and it’s successes to other counties and agencies on Long Island, as well as other states across the country. This will include consulting and technical assistance services offered to other mental health organizations to facilitate the successful creation and implementation of programs utilizing self help and empowerment techniques.

• Increasing housing opportunities.

• Purchasing homes and creating services to meet the needs of individuals diagnosed with mental illness.

• Building “Corporate Partnerships” to create vocational opportunities for individuals to re-enter the workplace.

• Using web services, computers, and the internet to develop a communication system that will help to bridge the isolation of homebound consumers. 

• Publishing and distributing research and statistical outcomes that show the effectiveness of HALI’s methods to a wide range of persons and affiliations.

• Sharing our personal experiences with high school and college students to cultivate understanding that will bring about positive and informed responses to mental illness and ultimately effect widespread change.

• Establishing a grant fund for individual(s) and/or group peer initiatives for entrepreneurial and education purposes.

• Establishing an holistic respite center to provide a short-term haven for individuals to avoid hospitalisation.

• Expanding our homeless prevention program by engaging at-risk individuals in communal activities that increases stability and diminishes isolation.

• Organizing and providing educational lectures in workplaces, and civic settings to hasten the process whereby awareness replaces stigma in our society.

• Expanding our forensic services by bridging more individuals leaving correctional facilities back to their communities all across New York State.

• Providing integrated treatment and better support systems for individuals with a dual diagnosis.

• Active involvement in advocacy efforts that will effect policy changes.

• To be the premier provider of mental health services for the growing senior population.

• Promoting healthier life styles through education and wellness self management by focusing on the whole person.

• To provide peer mentoring to young adults aging out of children’s mental health services and tailoring those services to meet their unique needs.

• Fostering an environment that promotes the belief that recovery is possible.

• Opening the first peer run clinic in the United States.

• Providing a comprehensive rehabilitation based approach to the delivery of mental health services called HALI U.

• The HALI U model will change the manner in which mental health care is provided in this country.