We are people concerned about the well-being, happiness and achievements of people with disabilities and the welfare of their families, advocates and supporters. Our key aims are to help people with disabilities:
To take responsibility for and have control over their own lives
And
To set and achieve their own goals
We seek to achieve our aims by assessing, consulting, treating, educating, developing and supporting people to the best of our abilities. We also seek to understand, anticipate and respond to their needs in a timely and efficient manner.
We try to do our daily work in a consistent, friendly way and to discuss issues openly, in a spirit of partnership, with the people we seek to serve.
The ways in which we will give practical meaning to our mission statement.
We agree to develop and to provide our services, in open consultation with our users, to best international practice, in so far as resources permit. We agree to develop, through increased internal cooperation, comprehensive and well coordinated services which take into account the impact of individuals’ disabilities on their families, friends and the wider community, as well as on themselves.
We agree to adapt, in so far as is possible and appropriate, the services and support we provide to meet the changing needs of individuals throughout their lives.
We agree to liase, cooperate and work with other organisations, including voluntary and statutory bodies, in the development of quality services to meet the needs of people with disabilities throughout the Republic.
We agree to seek representation on and, in so far as is possible, to play an active role in the work of committees, advisory bodies and other groups which have a bearing on our activities now or which may have in the future.
We agree to keep up-to-date with advances in our individual areas of responsibility and on all issues of relevance to people with disabilities and to be active in imparting this knowledge to others, including people with disabilities, their advocates and other service providers, in so far as is practicable and appropriate. . We agree to undertake, in an appropriate and timely way, training, re-training, consultation and other processes intended to help us, our users and their advocates, to refresh , refocus and continually improve our operations and services.
We agree to maintain the CRC’s ethos of service and user involvement through the continued commitment, dedication and mutual respect of our paid and voluntary staff. We agree that respect for the dignity and the efforts of others is a fundamental human obligation and we undertake to support each other’s efforts to the best of our personal abilities.
We agree to be prudent and, whenever possible, resourceful, in our use of time and money on the Clinic’s behalf and to participate willingly and enthusiastically in all appropriate activities intended to improve the availability of these essential resources.