Company Profile
Company Overview
As a large, multi-service community mental health agency, The Edinburg Center maintains a specific commitment to providing services to persons whose complex and challenging needs have typically been barriers to successful community living. Our employees share the belief that all persons have the potential to learn, the capacity for change, the ability to grow and to actively contribute to the community. They respect diversity and promote dignity, respect, and health both in themselves and in others. Therefore, we seek individuals who are devoted to the well-being and welfare of others and who have a special commitment to protecting the human, civil and legal rights of all individuals. We seek to hire caring and empathetic persons who have energy, a sense of responsibility, and a positive attitude and who will readily advocate for the needs of others, particularly those who are not able to do so for themselves. We offer an excellent benefits package for both full and part-time staff, including 90% health insurance contribution, dental plan, tuition reimbursement, training funds, 3 weeks vacation, and more!
The Center's mission is distinguished by our longstanding belief that all persons have the potential to learn, the capacity for change, the ability to grow and actively contribute to the community. Our mission is to provide an array of innovative services which promote and enhance the quality of life of persons with mental illness, emotional disorders, addictions and/or mental retardation. The Center maintains a specific commitment to providing services to persons whose complex and challenging needs have typically been barriers to successful community living. The core values and guiding principles which govern The Center's service delivery are:
• All persons must be treated with dignity, their human, civil and legal rights protected and their diversity respected
• Individuals receiving services must be provided with the opportunity to actively participate in their goal development and service plan
• Services must be individualized and based on a person's unique history, experiences, strengths, needs and choices
• Services and support must be provided in an environment which fosters independence and maximizes an individual's potential
• Services must be provided within an integrated, coordinated and accountable system of care
• Service provision must be goal-oriented, based on current research and use outcome data
• Systematic review, evaluation and changes in service delivery must occur to ensure that the highest quality clinical services are provided in the most efficient and cost-effective manner
Company History
Over her entire professional career spanning five decades, Golda Edinburg has distinguished herself as a leader in the field of mental health as a social worker, educator, administrator and community activist.
From 1971 through 1986, Ms. Edinburg volunteered on the Department of Mental Health and Retardation Area Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Waltham, Massachusetts. During this time period, area boards played a pivotal role in the planning and development of community-based systems of care for persons with mental illness and persons with mental retardation. Under her leadership as its President, federal funding was secured to establish The Center for Mental Health and Retardation Services, Inc. (at that time, known as the Metropolitan Beaverbrook Mental Health and Retardation Center) as an independent community mental health center. After its incorporation in 1977, Ms. Edinburg served as a member of The Center's Board and in both executive officer roles of President and Vice President until 1986. In these roles, Ms. Edinburg provided the vision and leadership that strategically guided The Center from its infancy to a thriving community mental health and mental retardation center.
Ms. Edinburg grew up in Massachusetts. She received her bachelors degree from the University of Massachusetts and her MSW from Boston University School of Social Work in 1946. Ms. Edinburg was hired as McLean Hospital's first social worker and the first director of its social work department. She directed the McLean social work department from 1956 through her retirement in 1993. This is the longest period that a social worker has given direction to a social work department in a private psychiatric hospital in the United States. Upon Ms. Edinburg's retirement in 1993, McLean Hospital established The Edinburg Lectureship in her honor. Guided by the goals of providing quality care and improving the quality of life for persons with mental illness and their families, Ms. Edinburg's leadership contributed significantly to the development of the fields of mental health and social work practice and education.
In honor of her contribution to the mental health field and to the agency, The Center for Mental Health and Retardation was renamed The Edinburg Center in September, 2002.
Benefits
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