Avenir Behavioral Health Center

From all of us at Avenir Behavioral Health Center, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and a happy, healthy New Year. The upcoming months will unveil some very exciting news here at Avenir (sshhhhhh!) and we're looking forward to a great year, and beyond!

Following another fun and successful Halloween Spirit Week, we're doing it again, with bells on. Jingle bells, that is! Next week is our Christmas Spirit week, and everyone here is looking forward to showing off their best (and worst) Christmas garb. I know I am. The team culture and camaraderie here really is amazing!

Brenda, our amazing Director of Social Work, coordinated a pretty awesome holiday basket raffle where leadership put together baskets to raffle off for the whole hospital. I really couldn't be more proud of the team we have here! 🎄🎄🎄

While some may say it's a bit too early to break out the Christmas Cheer (I admittedly used to firmly commit to the "One Holiday at a Time!" mentality), we've moved forward and begun decking the halls... and I'm not the slightest bit upset about it. 🎄❤️🎄

Our Avenir H.E.A.R.T Award is a newly created quarterly award that recognizes someone's Hospitality, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork. Our winners will receive a Heart of Avenir certificate, Heart of Avenir shirt, Heart of Avenir photo display, Heart of Avenir badge indicator and a nice bonus. We now want to congratulate our very first Winner! Our Housekeeper Iris easily checks off all the H.E.A.R.T. boxes, and received multiple nominations. She is an absolute asset to our team on so many levels, and everyone here appreciates what she does. For just one example, I've been under the weather and today she brought me some pretty amazing homemade green tea... I'm already feeling better! 😊 Thank you Iris, for literally everything you do. Your contributions here do NOT go unnoticed.

In the spirit of Halloween, next week tables the scrubs and business casual (safely and respectfully, of course) in favor of some jovial costume fun. We have an amazingly dedicated group, and activities like this really bring out the Avenir Team Spirit! I think it's also a testament not only to our low turnover rate, but high number of returning staff choosing to come back to us after some time away. I'm already looking forward to the new week, and have my outfits all planned out.

We'd like to wish a Happy International Chef's Day to the newest addition to our leadership team, our outstanding Culinary Director Richard, and to all the other Chefs and culinary masterminds out there!

So, fitting for the macabre of the Halloween season, our Director of Intake has met an "untimely demise", and now there are multiple suspects walking our halls daily. Our crack team of Nursing and Behavioral Health leadership will be releasing clues on the daily until Halloween, so we can catch this murderous scoundrel.

To celebrate the Halloween season, our spooktacular mascot Ellie Skelley decided to don some new Avenir swag and show off one of our ABHC sweatshirts. ...she's such a ham.

We're hiring! We are currently searching for a full-time Social Worker to join our awesome Social Services team. If you're interested, or know someone who may be, reach out to us and let's chat!