Our Mission and Objectives

Cape Mental Health Society is a registered non-profit organisation that provides or facilitates comprehensive, pro-active and enabling mental health services in the Western Cape.

We are committed to challenging socially restrictive and discriminatory practices affecting the mental health of all people.

Our work is underpinned by a commitment to quality, excellence and professionalism at all times.

We believe that all people can be empowered to achieve the highest possible level of mental health and quality of life. To achieve this, we work in consultation and in partnership with individuals, the community and relevant stakeholders.

We aim to:

• improve the quality of life of people with intellectual disability (mental handicap) or psychiatric disability (mental illness) and that of their families

• create an enabling environment for service-users that offers options, not solutions

• recognise change and learning potential in everyone

• adopt a caring, humanitarian and moral approach to our work, our staff and our service-users

• initiate and develop appropriate services and facilities for people with mental disability in consultation with them and the community

• reduce the incidence of intellectual disability and psychiatric disability in the community by the dissemination of information

• provide information and raise awareness about intellectual disability, mental illness and the promotion of mental health in the broader community

• engage greater service-user (consumer) involvement in service delivery

• embark on a more vigorous, visible and inclusive advocacy programme - mobilising the community, service-users, staff, and other organisations

• foster collaborative relationships with internal, external and collegial partners for service-delivery and research.