MISSION, VISION & VALUESOur MissionOur VisionOur ValuesOur Guiding PrinciplesOur MissionTo achieve 'a better future for people with disabilities' through:
· supporting individuals and their families to live ordinary lives within the community
· affecting change in communities so disabled people have access to the same opportunities as other New Zealanders
Our VisionDisabled people are valued participants in society
Our ValuesCCS will act at all times in ways that:
· Enable disabled people to make informed choices in their lives
· Generate increasing levels of inclusiveness of disabled people in our society
· Are respectful of each person we work with
· Allow each person the dignity to express themselves, to experiment, to reach, and to learn
· Celebrate diversity and difference
Our Guiding PrinciplesWe apply the following principles to our activities:
1. We work in a community development approach, building service responses in partnership with disabled people and their families so that natural family and community systems are developed.
2. We measure the success of our work by its ability to facilitate ordinary life opportunities and experiences for disabled people. ‘Ordinary’ means the ordinary opportunities available to all New Zealanders to learn, have relationships, have a home, work and participate in the community, and belong in a cultural and spiritual tradition.
3. Our services work to meet the needs and aspirations of Maori who have a disability and their whanau, in ways consistent with the Treaty of Waitangi.
4. We undertake an approach in all our work that uses positive images of disabled people, their families and whanau, with emphasis on social justice and personal achievements.
5. Our services evolve in line with evidence based practice, current theory, learning’s from the disability rights movement and feedback from disabled people, their families and whanau.
6. We will strive to live our values and be consistent in our practice.
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