The mission of Parker Personal Care Homes, Inc. is to provide individuals with developmental disabilities the opportunity to make informed decisions regarding life experiences.

     The agency’s mission is to afford every person with developmental disabilities the qualities of self-reliance, self respect, personal responsibility, and the independence necessary to maximize each person’s self-fulfillment and potential development.

• Strive to build and support relationships
   
• Utilize natural supports as much as possible
   
• Stress community involvement
   
• Support active participation, even if partial participation is necessary
   
• Use non-intrusive, natural interventions, and avoid artificiality
   
• Be sensitive to individual rights, particularly privacy, personal decision making, and personal space
   
• Maintain natural routines and rhythms
   
• Be conscious of age appropriateness
   
• Provide and educate real choices
   
• Personalize the full experience of life with individuals
   
• Be active in respectful partnership with families
   
• Maintain good health, safety and medical practices
   
• Utilize the power of modeling in our own behavior and self-presentation
   
• Teach functional skills utilizing sound teaching methods
   
• Be conscious of subtle images, postures, and language, which can devaluate persons
   
• Promote status, competencies, and personal growth
   
• Work in the broad sense as an enhancer of quality in a person’s life

     We have one of the most important jobs and opportunities there is----the enhancement of the quality of life of another person. We will take the time to learn the tools and find the resources that will enable us to do the best job we can.

The Services

     In the pursuit of its mission, Parker Personal Care Homes, Inc. provides innovative and integrated services for persons with developmental disabilities in the following areas:

1. Residential programming
2. Day Habilitation programming
3. Community Support Services
4. Assurance of Quality Health Care

     Parker Personal Care Homes, Inc., as part of it’s mission, shall provide services for each person commensurate with his or her disabilities with due regard for the rights and dignity of that person.

Guiding Principles

     Parker Personal Care Homes, Inc., as an organization, recognizes that certain principles should guide its pursuit to fulfill its mission. These principles include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Honor
• Honesty
• Determination
• Compassion
• Education
• Dedication