Other Trunks

Values

Assumptions

The Village's Designed Care Tree

• Everyone, regardless of disability, has the right and responsibilities of full participation in society.

• People with mental illness can recover and live healthy and productive lives.

• Consumers and their families are unique and essential participants in providing advocacy, services, education and training.

• The natural consequences or outcomes of various choices become opportunities for growth and learning. Perceived "failure" is not defeat, but rather a chance to learn and grow.

• Mental health consumers have more in common with the general population than they have differences.

• Consumers must play an active role in the system designed to help them cope with their illness and readjust to community life.

• Self-help, interdependence and employment can be powerful means to self-esteem and self-worth.

• Hope