Our Mission
Northwest ABA’s mission is to achieve a better life for everyone. When we say “everyone” this includes children, families, and our professionals who provide services regardless of their disabilities and cultural backgrounds.
Our Values
- Achieve a Better Life for Everyone: Northwest ABA exists to help children and families live better lives. Our clients’ physical, mental, or behavioral health may be affected by disability but their quality of life and that of families does not have to be. Using applied behavior analysis as a tool, we create learning and develop skills that help our clients achieve their unique potential.
- Commitment to Diversity: We believe that achieving better lives for everyone means staying committed to cultural diversity and inclusivity throughout our organization and the work that we do.
- Sharing Community and Culture: Northwest ABA builds a community and culture in which clients, families, and professionals are all partners, have mutual respect for one another, and share common values and goals.
- Professional Development: Northwest ABA focuses on developing professionals and enhancing their quality of life. We believe that professional growth leads to service excellence and we invest in employee engagement and performance. We care, support, challenge, and develop professionals.
- Staff Quality: Northwest ABA believes that exceptional service is built on exceptional people. We hire and develop professionals who live the following values.
- Professionalism: All staff who work at Northwest ABA are professionals. We think and act as professionals.
- Happiness: We enjoy and take pride in what we do.
- Relentless drive for improvement: We are committed to seeking challenges and improving our competence, services, and processes. There is no end to this process and we all strive to offer better services each day.
- Effective and efficient: We are obsessed with pursuing effectiveness and efficiency in the outcomes for our clients.
- Dependability and consistency: We do what we said we will do (dependability) and do it consistently.
- Own responsibility: We take ownership when a problem arises rather than attributing a fault to others or external factors. We believe our ability to overcome challenges rests on whether we can see them as our own issues. An ineffective clinician blames other people and situations and defends themselves in every situation. A passive clinician just accepts their challenges but does not do or say anything about it. A good clinician engages in problem solving. But a stellar clinician prevents problems before they occur and turns existing problems into opportunities for improvement.
- Problem Solving through Communication: We believe communication is always two-way. Problems and conflicting opinions are solved through communication, as we give and receive critical/constructive feedback with one another.
- Compassion: Our staff strive to consider others first and communicate our compassion. Communication means to think how others may interpret your message or behavior, how they may feel, and conveying a message that you care about them.
- Credit and empower: We believe in principles of positive reinforcement and recognize and praise accomplishments of each other.
- Teamwork: We care, support, challenge, nurture, and grow each other to build a strong, cohesive team.
- Embrace differences: We embrace diversity across our clients AND staff and remain open to ideas and values that are different from our own.