CORE VALUES

To assure continuous quality improvement
To promote creativity, adaptability and challenges
To utilize community partnerships and natural supports
To empower and involve consumers and families served
To promote healthy relationships through honesty, openness,
respectfulness and fairness
To exercise personal, programmatic and fiscal responsibility
To promote awareness of cultural diversity

CLINICAL PHILOSOPHIES

To place consumers and family at the center of all we do and recognize the treatment of the individual is most effective when we include the family/support network
To base services in the community, available in non-traditional sites, least restrictive and at convenient locations and times
To be visible in the community and form partnerships, which promote the achievement of service delivery
To promote the cross-training of staff in order to provide services across an array of age, disability and culturally diverse categories
To insure services are delivered in an integrated manner that does not dwell on disability categories or cultural differences but on individual client and family needs and strengths
To promote freedom of choice for clients and families
To serve individuals who have the fewest available resources
and the greatest need
To utilize “best clinical practices” in the delivery of services
To promote utilization of natural supports in the community