Our Vision
We believe that our society should be one in which
everyone is seen as having basic rights and entitlements. These include
the right to:
- food, shelter, safety, meaningful work, recreation, and leisure
- live, participate, and contribute in the community
- acceptance and understanding of differences
- the entitlement to supports which enable people to improve and maintain their quality
of life in ways that they think are important, and at least to some
minimum standard
We recognize that our society includes people who have
mental health problems. To ensure that they enjoy the rights and
entitlements of our community, we believe it is essential that there be a
system of services and supports which is characterized by the following
features:
- Provides FLEXIBILITY
- Encourages and supports CHOICE
- Ensures local ACCESS and AVAILABILITY, without discrimination and for as long as
the individual wants and needs support (Local means
reasonably accessible by local transit. Access and availability
includes social, economic, and physical accessibility)
- Is focused on the COMMUNITY and life in the community
- Ensures that services are CO-ORDINATED and COMPREHENSIVE in response to the
needs of the individual
- Is based on systematic ASSESSMENT of community need, PLANNING and EVALUATION
- Is ACCOUNTABLE
- REDUCES the IMPACT of mental illness on the lives of individuals, and SUPPORTS MENTAL
HEALTH
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Our Mission
Our mission is to assist adults (16 years or older)
with severe and prolonged psychiatric disabilities to live in our
community. We are committed to supporting people in the community in ways
which are most responsive to their needs and hopes for the future.
For people with psychiatric disabilities in or from the
Greater Toronto area (and on occasion from elsewhere) we will
provide affordable and safe supported housing which we, in one way or
other, have some control over. This would include housing owned or leased
by Bayview Community Services, as well as housing which is accessible to individuals
when they are supported by Bayview Community Services.
For people with psychiatric disabilities who live in our
community, regardless of whether they live in housing over which Bayview
Community Services has control, we will provide case management support
to enable them to continue to live in the community.
We will be accountable to our clients, our funders, our
neighbours, and our service partners.
We will respect the fundamental human rights of all people.
We will be a developer and demonstrator of innovative,
effective, efficient, responsive, and affordable supports for people with
a wide range of needs.
We will be a partner with other agencies and organizations
in our community to ensure the development and maintenance of services
and support in all areas of life.
We will be a good neighbour in the neighbourhoods and
housing communities of Toronto.
We will be a respecter of and partner with people to whom
we provide support, and other people significant to them, while
maintaining confidentiality.
We will be an advocate for the rights and entitlements of
the people we serve and for the systematic respect for those rights in
our community. Through our participation in larger community and system
forums, we will participate in advocacy at the systems level.
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