Mission, Philosophy, and Values

Our Mission

To support adults with intellectual disabilities and their families by providing on-site community based programming, and in-home support services.

Our Philosophy

We are committed to creating an atmosphere of mutual respect that allows individuals to fulfill their own expectations of personal well-being, contentment, and self-direction. We promote independence while maintaining a safe, positive learning environment.

Our Values

We value individuality, choice-making, self-expression, and natural social interactions at home, on-site, and within the surrounding community.

We are successful because of open communication and cooperation among the individuals we serve, their families, the staff, and board members.

We believe that all individuals must be allowed to make choices in their daily routine and that outcomes and strategies developed for them must include this option.

We believe that all individuals should be given a communication system that includes the ability to say "I'm mad at you" and "Leave me alone" along with other emotion statements.

We believe that it is OK for individuals served to be mad at / frustrated with / dissapointed in staff members and that respecting these emotions strengthens these relationships and encourages social growth.

We believe that functional training means using real money, at real stores, for actual purposes, etc.

We believe that the role of staff members is to support an individual to do things for themselves and not to do things for them.

We believe that behavior is communication and that the communicative intent behind behaviors should be interpreted and addressed.

We believe that individuals must, at all times, be treated their 'chronological" and not their "functional" age and that this means we must "respect our elders" even as we serve them.