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  About Block Institute

Our Mission

Block Community Alliance champions person-centered support that empowers people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to lead confident, self-directed lives.

Our Vision

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  Leader in Change: We’re a community of care dedicated to helping people with disabilities live, learn, and thrive with at the heart of everything we do. We will become the agency others look to when they want to see the future of this field.
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  Growth: We will look to build upon what we have, to serve more and to serve better.

Values:

Our Core Value, from which all others flow, is: The needs and desires of the individuals we serve come first.

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  Community: We are not a special segment of our community, we are our community.
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  Respect: We listen, encourage, acknowledge and appreciate those we serve, and those who serve. We need to ensure competency and empowerment.
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  Accountability: If it is to be, it’s up to me.
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  Innovation: We don’t want to reinvent the wheel; we want to create its replacement.
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  Quality: What we do, we do well.
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  Transparency: We strive to be crystal clear about what we do, how we do it and why we do it.