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CSI Earns International Accreditation
SACO – Counseling Services, Inc., a community mental health agency serving southern Maine residents for nearly 50 years, has received full accreditation from the Council on Accreditation, an international social service and behavioral healthcare accrediting agency.
CSI annually serves more than 7,000 children and adults in York and Cumberland Counties at its four clinical locations in Biddeford, Springvale, Westbrook and Kittery.
The COA accreditation process involves a detailed review and analysis of an organization’s administrative operations and its service delivery practices. All are measured against national standards of best practice. COA accredits providers that have set high performance standards for themselves and have made a commitment to their constituents to deliver the highest quality services.
“This is a significant achievement for CSI, and one that we feel extremely proud of having accomplished,” said Jeannine Lepitre, CSI’s chief executive officer. “COA accreditation attests that an organization meets the highest national standards of best practice and establishes credibility that the organization is effective and professionally sound. In short, it means CSI delivers needed services to our community effectively, conducts its operations successfully, and manages its funds wisely.”
The accrediting agency recognized CSI for providing high-quality services in the areas of case management, crisis response and information, group living, outpatient mental health, psychiatric rehabilitation, residential treatment, substance abuse and supported community living.
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