Threshold is committed to:

• Providing those who are most in need, in line with the Government's TSN initiative of "worst first" with therapeutic inputs that are of the highest standard.
• Maintaining these standards through our external bench marking and professional links with the School of Psychology at QUB, national links with the Tavistock Clinic, London, and international links with the American Group Psychotherapy Association.
  
• Providing training to health and social care professionals in the Trusts and Boards, most recently when invited by Sperrin Lakeland Trust to provide support and training to Trauma and Recovery Team in Omagh.
• Taking forward an evidence based approach through routinely collecting and publishing outcome data from all of our work, publishing and implementing research informed guidelines for effective therapeutic practice and undertaking research projects with local and national Universities to ensure that the agency remains research active and promotes a culture of research enquiry.

This is further evidenced by our research contribution to the Bloomfield Report. This is all consistent with the Department's "clinical excellence" and "health improvement" initiatives which we are applying in this social care setting.

Overall Threshold is committed to "joined up working" with our partners in housing associations, health and social care, higher education and criminal justice as well as our national and international colleagues to provide best practice in all or our work. Our aim is to provide therapeutic environments from the "cradle to the grave" underpinned by training and research; currently we are taking forward initiatives in:

• psychotherapy services in child and adolescent mental health
  
• child psychotherapy training
• mental health provisions similar to Sophia House
• specialist therapeutic environments in personality disorder and drug addiction in N. Ireland and so provide the highest standard of therapeutic care.