Behavioral Health as an industry has traditionally focused on clinical services: the assessment and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders. This is an important function that serves approximately 20% of the workforce in a given year. Important though this function is, the behavioral health industry is actively expanding its scope beyond this to include non-clinical functions that serve 100% of the workforce all the time. Such non-clinical services include: improving stress management and resilience, human performance optimization, and advocating for and/or implementing any intervention (policy, program, or practice) that positively impacts wellness and well-being.

Keeping the traditional clinical services of the behavioral health industry as a fundament function, and adding non-clinical services as an expanded scope of practice, the mission of Behavioral Health & Wellness is twofold:

• To ensure that everyone in OMAO who experiences signs and symptoms of mental health and/or substance use issues has access to high-quality services in a supportive culture that encourages treatment
  (serving approximately 20% of the workforce in a given year)
  
  
• To promote the wellness of the OMAO workforce as a whole by identifying opportunities to improve well-being (decreasing stress, increasing morale, etc) and responding with best-fit interventions
  (serving 100% of the workforce all the time)
  
  

Each and every member of the OMOA workforce is equipped with the
necessary resources in a supportive environment where they can
thrive to be the best version of themselves they can possibly be
and live the best life they can possibly live.

Wellness - Integrity - Service - Excellence

The ultimate ambition of Behavioral Health & Wellness is the overall Wellness of the OMOA workforce

All efforts undertaken by Behavioral Health & Wellness will be honest and authentically guided with Integrity

The very existence of Behavioral Health & Wellness is to be in and of Service to the OMAO workforce

Behavioral Health & Wellness will constantly and continually strive for Excellence in all it does