Advocacy

The Association believes in the importance of advocacy at both an individual, community, and societal level. 

• We believe in consumer involvement and support the people we serve advocating on their own behalf.
• We also believe that, whenever possible, family members become the individual’s natural and best advocates
• We support families to advocate for their family member whenever feasible. 
• We believe that consumers of our services should be encouraged to provide peer advocacy.
• The Association supports and encourages staff to advocate on behalf of the people and the communities that we serve. 
• We believe that healthy, supportive communities are key to creating healthy citizens and, as such, we actively participates both individual employees and as an agency in community building.