The Mission of the Adult Recovery Network is to identify common areas of concern among consumers and family advocates. With these common concerns as a base, the Adult Recovery Network (ARN)is to generate recommendations that can help transform the mental health system so that it becomes more consumer and family driven and recovery focused, as described in the President's New Freedom Commission Report. The Vision of the Adult Recovery Network is to change the focus of the mental health system in Ohio to one that has Recovery as its base for all treatments and services. As a group, the Adult Recovery Network embraces the following Values: compassion; consumer and family driven services; destigmatization; dignity; diversity of approaches including multi-cultural competency; education; empowerment; hope; individualized, person-centered services; love; mutual respect; personal responsibility, and spirituality.