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Surrey Association for Community Living is committed to providing
the highest quality, community based services for individuals with
developmental disabilities.
Our goals are to provide programs and support services that will
enable both adults and children to participate to the greatest
extent possible in daily living within the community.
All our programs are designed to support the persons’ right to
liberty, personal freedom, dignity and a meaningful life. We work
to strengthen and enhance existing support systems as well
introducing new programs as required to assist each participants’
life goals. It is our goal to contribute to the persons’ ability to
control his/her environment and to always strive to contribute to
maximize those qualities that have been defined as strengths. All
our staff are guided by an overall philosophy of dignity, human
development, autonomy, human relationships, self expression and a
sense of responsibility.
Our goals:
To maintain each individual’s dignity by:
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Providing services which allow opportunities to experience the
community according to his/her abilities.
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Supporting each person to live and work in settings realistically
suitable to him/herself and others.
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Assisting individuals to grow in self knowledge and self esteem
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Help to identify those character and behaviour traits acceptable
to the individual and the community.
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Assisting individuals to express a respectful self image.
To preserve each individual’s autonomy by:
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Enabling development of self-determination.
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Assisting individuals to exercise mature control of his/her life
and make informed decisions.
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Helping individuals to discover and develop his/her natural
abilities and interests towards goal oriented behaviours related
to his/her self actualization.
To support each individual’s self expression by:
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Providing support to enable individuals to be able to express
their opinions about how to meet their physical, emotional, social
and spiritual needs.
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Providing a climate of opportunity for trust to enable eact
individual to demonstrate their own uniqueness talents and
aspirations and to be able to share them with others.
To support each individual’s sense of responsibility by:
Supporting individuals in assuming
responsibility for their goals, tasks and commitments.
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