Our Practice Principles
Principle # 1: Have an opportunity for personal development and to be supported towards realizing their full potential. Principle #2: Self determination: to make decisions about issues that affect their life, their services and to experience a life with autonomy and control. Principle #4: Be in and of a community and experience citizenship without the barriers imposed by the labels that have been assigned. Principle #5: Information about their rights, opportunities and issues that affect them. Principle #6: Be respected for who they are and their unique qualities, contributions and capacities they have to offer. Principle #7: Access to support to maintain or improve their physical, emotional and material well being. Principle #8: Determine with whom and where they live. Principle #9: An effective system of support to live a good life. This support is based on the person’s strengths and not their deficits. Principle #10: FULL CITIZENSHIP, WITH ALL ITS RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.