Mission Statement

WE…

• Understand the diverse and unique needs of individuals with disabilities and the challenges of their families to ensure lifelong quality care.
• Believe in the importance of providing options to persons with disabilities.
• Realize the desire of each individual to have a choice in selecting the place and style in which they live, work and types of leisure activities in which they are involved.
• Provide the best possible options for the people we serve.
• Strive to select the best direct service providers to support the people we serve and make every effort to serve as advocate to meet their social, physical and emotional needs.
• Understand the importance of relationships along the life span and strive to ensure that family and friends remain active participants in the life of the people that are served by our agency.

DDR Philosophy

We…

• Believe in providing a warm, home-like setting for people.
• Strive to meet the total needs of people in our programs.
• Continually encourage open, on-going communication with parents, guardians and advocates of the people we serve.
• Advocate for a person’s human rights.
• Use an interdisciplinary team approach to serve individuals of DDR and coordinate with many other agencies for outside resources.
• Encourage and promote community inclusion to all people in order to help bring awareness to the community in which they live.

Rules for Excellence

The people we serve are…

• The most important individuals in our services.
• The purpose of our organization.
• Valued individuals, not a statistic.