Vision and Values
Mission
Our mission is to help families secure the future for their relative with a disability and to provide peace of mind. This means ending isolation and loneliness, creating financial security, enabling everyone to make a contribution, ensuring choice, and creating genuine homes.
Vision
Our vision is simple: we want everyone to have access to a good life. Not surprisingly, a good life for people with disabilities is not very different from a good life for anyone else.
We believe that a good life will always include:
Values
In all of our work, Equal Futures is guided and inspired by four core principles:
Contribution equals Citizenship
We believe that all people have gifts to contribute to their community. When people are given an opportunity to make a contribution, the community comes to accept that person more fully as a member of the community.
Safety and Security through Relationships
The Founders of Equal Futures recognised that relationships are the key ingredient to ensuring a safe and secure future for individuals with a disability. We believe that the safety of a person with a disability is directly related to the number and quality of relationships the person has. Equal Futures primary focus is in facilitating a “Lifelong Circle of Support” around an individual with a disability. This means having approximately 6-8 people who are committed to being in a relationship with our relative who has a disability
Family Direction
We wanted an organisation that would remain directed and controlled by families who have a relative with a disability. To help maintain a family focus the organisation was created where the majority of the Board of Directors are family members who have a relative with a disability.
Self Sufficiency
This is not the same as independence as not all individuals with a disability can cope independently. Self Sufficiency is a way of ensuring family leadership and direction. Self Sufficiency through our members support allows Equal Futures to be a powerful advocate for families with no fear of reprisal. Self Sufficiency from core statutory funding also protects families from changes in policy, services and funding streams.
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