What is Accreditation

Accreditation is a process that demonstrates a provider has met standards for the quality of it services. CARF International establishes these standards to guide providers in offering their services and also uses the standards to evaluate how well a provider is serving people and how it can improve.

What is a Survey

As a step toward accreditation, a provider invites CARF International to send a team of professional, called surveyors, to visit it's site and evaluate it's services for quality. The surveryors consult with staff members and interview people who use the provider's services. Based on the surveyors' review, the provider may be awarded accreditation for a term of one or three years for CARF accreditation and five years for CARF-CCAC accreditation. In some cases, the provider may need to improve it's services before it can become accredited.

Pathways Family Services would like to ask for your input/feedback specific to:

• the programs that we provide
• our agency and the way we do business

Please contact Scott Parsons (scott.parsons@pathwaysfamilyservices.com) or Michelle Meadahl (michelle.meadahl@pathwaysfamilyservices.com) with your feedback.