The Vision Statement of Nebraska Advocacy Services Inc. (NAS), The Center for Disability Rights, Law and Advocacy, sets out a perspective that guides us in all of our efforts. We see a future where all people with disabilities "are valued within their communities, have control over their own lives and have the necessary resources available to experience a life of quality." Our Board and employees have dedicated their efforts and have joined with people who have disabilities to create just such a future.
Our purpose and mission are clearly focused on protecting and advocating for rights, ensuring dignity, and promoting empowerment of all individuals with disabilities.
In 2003, our Board of Directors adopted a statement of our core values which sets out the fundamental principles which govern the endeavors and the individuals who are Nebraska Advocacy Services.
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- VISION STATEMENT
Nebraskans with mental or physical disabilities are valued within their communities, have control over their own lives, and have the necessary resources available to experience a life of quality.
(Adopted by the Board of Directors: February 14, 1992)
- PURPOSE STATEMENT
Nebraska Advocacy Services will protect and advocate for human and legal rights that ensure the individual dignity and empowerment of all people with mental or physical disabilities in the state of Nebraska.
(Adopted by the Board of Directors: September 16, 1988)
- MISSION STATEMENT
Nebraska Advocacy Services shall execute a combined program of legal advocacy, systems advocacy, public policy analysis, education and other support activities for people with disabilities that secures their rights, enhances their dignity, and advocates for their full participation as citizens with respect to their individual culture.
(Revised by the Board of Directors: February 12, 2005.)
- DECLARATION AND RESOLUTION OF VALUES AND PURPOSES
WHEREAS Nebraska Advocacy Services, Inc., as The Center for Disability Rights, Law and Advocacy in the State of Nebraska desires to publicly declare the fundamental principles which govern its endeavors and the individuals who are Nebraska Advocacy Services. Be it therefore,
RESOLVED that NAS is united on the principle of the Dignity of the Person and in furtherance of that principle and as a fundamental and integral compact hereby affirms its dedication to reducing the oppression of stigma and stereotyping of people with disabilities; hereby embraces a culture enriched by diversity; and hereby chooses a language founded upon first the person and grounded in an understanding of the history of the devaluation of people with disabilities.
RESOLVED that NAS respects the unalienable Right of Self-Determination and in accordance with that right hereby professes that it shall act with and not for people with disabilities who reserve the power to decide and control their lives and the government which serves them.
RESOLVED that NAS manifests the primacy of the Right of Inclusion and in acceptance of that right hereby acknowledges that it shall strive for social imagery and image enhancement for people with disabilities which reflect their fundamental and essential social value as integrated, valued, and contributing members of the community.
RESOLVED that NAS is dedicated to protecting the Rights and Privileges of Citizenship so as to preserve the fundamental and self-evident rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness which people with disabilities are endowed, and hereby declares that necessary and proper to those fundamental rights are the rights to live, work, recreate in the community, form and maintain the full panoply of human relationships with dignity and privacy as an independent person; and furthermore reaffirms the privileges of citizenship to freely travel, vote, and fully participate in the political affairs of the community.
RESOLVED that NAS exists to protect the Preservation of the Integrity of the Person upon which all other rights originate and requires that people with disabilities be free from abuse, neglect, and exploitation, and hereby unrelentingly demands that to realize the fundamental purposes of government, the terms of its compact with the people, and its past failings and transgressions, that people with disabilities be afforded equal and complete access to a full range of habilitative/rehabilitative, educational, employment, housing, communicative, and adaptive services in the most integrated and less intrusive environment.
(Adopted by the Board of Directors: February 8, 2003)
