Our Vision, Mission & Values
Our Assocation Values Are:
01
Honesty
02
Integrity
03
Respect
Our Philosophy
Our organisation is only as good as the people in it and we are proud of the fact that we operate from a very strong ethos of mutual respect and purpose.
We have a positive approach to challenges and difficult decisions, and train our people to work as a team.
The overall goal of the Association is supporting people with disabilities to lead personally meaningful lives.
Recruitment and induction must be thorough; remuneration appropriate; rewards and recognition ongoing, and work must be challenging and motivating.
To guide Aurora’s planning process, we must begin by understanding the core values that drive the actions of ourselves as Service Providers.
To promote success, Aurora must align its values with personal outcomes.
The process of identifying and defining outcomes is based on access to a range of options and meaningful choices grounded in real life experiences. Our role is to provide the individualised supports and services to achieve personal outcomes, and gain an understanding that
- stereotypes have been developed through history;
- the impact of life experiences on values;
- the importance of opportunities in making choices; and
- the need to use language that is non labelling
Aurora Disability Services is committed to supporting people to use measures that promote a world of dignity, opportunity and community inclusion for all people. Supporting people to make choices, exercise rights and balancing this against keeping people free from harm is a major challenge. We must be diligent in ensuring that provided services and supports do not limit individual rights and personal freedoms.
Essential lifetime planning is a guided process for learning how someone wants to live and for developing a plan to help make it happen. It is also:
- a snapshot of how someone wants to live today serving as a blueprint for how to support them tomorrow;
- a way of organising and communicating what is important to a person in plain language;
- a flexible process that can be used in combination with other person centred planning techniques; and
- a way of making sure the person is heard regardless of the disability.
We are driven by purpose, rather than by profit.
Learning what people want is a good beginning. Helping people to be in control of their own lives requires changing:
- how we think
- how we are organised; and
- how we act.
As emphasis is transferred from “taking care of people” to “encouraging people to assume control and responsibility of their own lives”, the role of the Association as “care giver and protector” will shift to “providing support”.
Key elements of our supportive role are helping people with disabilities to understand their rights and freedoms, and providing a supportive opportunity to experience those rights.
