About Us

Our Mission

Comprehend’s mission is to enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and communities by advocating for and providing behavioral healthcare services in a welcoming and caring environment.

Our Vision

Comprehend is committed to the continual pursuit of excellence in behavioral health services by providing the highest quality individualized care through a staff of dedicated and expert professionals, thereby becoming the employer, provider, and partner of choice.

Our Mission

Comprehend’s mission is to enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and communities by advocating for and providing behavioral healthcare services in a welcoming and caring environment.

Our Vision

Comprehend is committed to the continual pursuit of excellence in behavioral health services by providing the highest quality individualized care through a staff of dedicated and expert professionals, thereby becoming the employer, provider, and partner of choice.

Our Values

Integrity

We will make a continual effort to achieve the highest degree of professional standards possible in all areas.

Excellence

We will make a continual effort to achieve the highest degree of professional standards possible in all areas.

Stewardship

We will be responsible for the management of our resources to provide and sustain our ability to serve. We will take full ownership for our failures and our successes, being ever mindful that we are accountable to our past, present and future employees, clients, and the community at large.

Respect

We will be ever mindful – in all we do and say – in order to treat everyone with dignity, courtesy and consideration.

Kindness

We will show all individuals we interact with, internally and externally, the same consideration and care we expect.

Dedication

We will show unconditional commitment to serve each other so that together we can serve and meet the needs of our community.

Our History

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1967

Founded

Bridgeway is a subsidiary of Comprehend, Inc., which was established in 1967

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1968

Services Began

Bridgeway began providing services in 1968 within the five counties of the Buffalo Trace Area Development District (Mason, Fleming, Lewis, Bracken and Robertson).

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1970

All Basic Services In Place

By 1970, all of our basic services were being provided, including serving individuals with developmental disabilities.

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1971

Adult Day Training

In 1971, we started four daycare centers for developmentally disabled children, and a year later began what is now called our Adult Day Training program.

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Today

Evolution

Over time, the programming within Comprehend providing these fundamental services for individuals with developmental disabilities became known as Bridgeway. This name was chosen to represent how the program worked to reduce barriers and promote independence among the population that it serves.