Mission & Values

About Us

Mission

Oregon Community Brokerages represents and supports its members: community Brokerage organizations that support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Vision

We envision a world in which all people live the life they choose in a community where they are valued, respected, and honored. In this world, individual strengths are celebrated; high quality supports are ample and readily available; labels are absent; and self determination is universal. This vision is realized from neighbor to legislator.

Principles

We believe in self determination for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

This means:

  • Freedom to choose a meaningful life in the community

  • Authority over the supports and the money that is spent

  • Support to organize resources in ways that are life enhancing and meaningful to the individual with a disability

  • Responsibility for the wise use of public dollars and recognition of the contribution individuals and families make to their communities

  • Confirmation of the central role individuals and families have in leadership and change

Purpose

We promote, assure, and protect the integrity of Support Services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Oregon by:

  • Working collaboratively within the association

  • Working cooperatively with our community partners

  • Sharing resources and best practices

  • Engaging in strategic system development and innovation

  • Listening, responding, and adapting to the complex needs of our customers

  • Empowering our customers, partners, and the community through education

  • Supporting, promoting, and being led by the self advocacy of Oregonians with intellectual and developmental disabilities

  • Developing new resources and services

Goals & Outcomes

We will advocate for funding and policies that promote our vision.

  • We will actively work against the erosion of self directed services in Oregon.

  • We will support our customers to be heard and involved on all levels of decision-making.

  • We will assure support services will be customer-driven and result in the highest level of customer satisfaction.

  • We will support each other to assure and promote the highest quality of services.

  • We will continue to be innovators in the design of IDD services.

My Personal Agent helps me with my goals and plans. They provide choice counseling around employment agencies and connected me with someone new, and I now love my new job. My Personal Agent has helped me over the last 4 years with my goals. I always get told about other places I can go for case management, and I always say I am staying with ISN!”

— Marlene, served by ISN Brokerage since 2002

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