North Country Center for Independence
The Mission of the North Country Center for Independence is to empower people with disabilities to live more independent and productive lives, and to promote beneficial policies and community understanding of disability issues.
All people have value, should be treated with respect, and have the right to make choices about their own lives.
People with disabilities are limited mainly by the barriers they encounter in society.
If they have the knowledge, tools and freedom they need, all people with disabilities can live independently, carry out the responsibilities of citizenship and reach their full potential.
All people with disabilities can live and work in integrated, non-institutional settings, if community-based support services are available.
There is a continuing need to improve the community's awareness, understanding, and accommodation of people with disabilities.
The best source of information and support available to people with disabilities is the experience and example of others with disabilities.
We succeeded in our mission when a person with a disability no longer needs our help.
We promote a growing sense of personal dignity and responsibility in each person with a disability we serve. We respect their confidentiality and honor their choices. We are honest, accurate and reliable in our dealings with the people we serve.
We work consistently to remove barriers, in architecture, policies and attitudes, that restrict people with disabilities' choices and prevent them from achieving their full potential.
We provide services to all who seek them, regardless of the degree or type of their disability, with the goal of assisting them to achieve their own goals.
We support policies and programs that enable people with disabilities to live and work in their own communities, along with their non-disabled peers. We neither create nor support segregated, institutional services.
We foster a spirit of cooperation and mutual understanding between people with disabilities and the rest of the community.
Those of us who have direct experience of disabilities share our unique perspectives with the people we serve and act as role models of independent living.
The people we serve are responsible for achieving their own goals. We encourage, assist and teach them. We do not do things for them that they can do for themselves.
Adopted May 31, 2001
102 Sharron Avenue
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
(518) 563-9058 Voice & TTY
(518) 563-0292 Fax
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© 2007, North Country Center
for Independence, Ltd.
Updated: 4 / 25 / 07