The Mission of the Division of Services for People with Disabilities is to Promote Opportunities and Provide Supports for Persons with Disabilities to lead self-determined lives.
Values:
- We respect and support personal choice and personal responsibility
- We respect personal and cultural diversity
- We value the preservation of family and other natural supports
- We believe in stewardship and wise use of public resources
- We value coordination and cooperation
- We respect and support personal choices.
- We believe people deserve high quality supports and services
- We believe funding should be needs based and should follow the person
- Promote and recognize excellence
- Continue a person-centered philosophy
- Promote public awareness of disability issues
- Work collaboratively to dissolve barriers to quality service
- Support a full spectrum of service options
- Support self-determination by assisting persons to exercise and develop their ability to make choices and experience a) freedom to make informed choices from among available options of services and supports, b) authority to control a defined amount of dollars to purchase only what is needed and valued, c) support to nurture informal relationships that might augment, if not replace, some purchased services, and d) responsibility to give back to the community
