Winder Inclusive Communities Service - Wics

Connecting People to Their Communities in Meaningful Ways

Our Practice Principles

Principle # 1: Have an opportunity for personal development and to be supported towards realizing their full potential.
Principle #2: Self determination: to make decisions about issues that affect their life, their services and to experience a life with autonomy and control.
Principle #3: Develop healthy, sustainable, non-paid relationships.
Principle #4: Be in and of a community and experience citizenship without the barriers imposed by the labels that have been assigned.
Principle #5: Information about their rights, opportunities and issues that affect them.
Principle #6: Be respected for who they are and their unique qualities, contributions and capacities they have to offer.
Principle #7: Access to support to maintain or improve their physical, emotional and material well being.
Principle #8: Determine with whom and where they live.
Principle #9: An effective system of support to live a good life. This support is based on the person’s strengths and not their deficits.
Principle #10: FULL CITIZENSHIP, WITH ALL ITS RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.