About Us

As support providers, coordinators, and administrators: We subscribe to the primary mandate of the Hippocratic Oath: “THIS ABOVE ALL, DO NO HARM.” We subscribe to the CONCEPT OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP in delivering supports to people with developmental disabilities. The test of servant leadership is: Do those served [our participants] grow as persons? Do they, while…

The Griffin Area Resource Center reflects excellence in all its work and especially through a FOUNDATION OF SAFETY AND WELL BEING for participants, the identification and employment of BEST PRACTICES, and the improvement of services and outcomes for participants through CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT.

We believe it is our duty to provide visionary leadership to our community by advancing our mission and promoting our values with integrity, stewardship and accountability.

As an organization we subscribe to the highest levels of integrity, stewardship and accountability. We conduct our business with integrity and believe that we exercise a public trust with responsibilities to people with disabilities, their families, the community, funders, and staff.

We believe that, in the field of disabilities, the measure of organizational success is responsiveness to the service user.

As an organization we believe that the most important resource we have in achieving our mission is our staff. WE BELIEVE THAT IT IS CRUCIAL TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN STAFF WHO ARE COMPETENT, WELL TRAINED, CONTINUOUSLY LEARNING, CREATIVE, ENERGETIC PEOPLE WHO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MISSION AND VALUES, WHO SEE THEIR WORK AS A CALLING, AND…

People with disabilities themselves deserve to make decisions that govern their lives, their work, with whom they socialize, and what services they receive. Quality of life is defined by a person enabled to make informed choices, and achieved in the attainment of personally defined outcomes. We affirm with Thomas Jefferson that all people are “…endowed…

People with developmental disabilities have a right to full inclusion in the community and to the same opportunities and choices as all citizens regardless of range of challenges or supports needed. We believe and work in support of the COMMUNITY IMPERATIVE: THAT ALL PEOPLE HAVE THE FUNDAMENTAL MORAL, CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO LIVE, LEARN,…

People with disabilities deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. We believe that people with disabilities are people first and we support “people-first” language and language that avoids labeling or demeaning characterizations. We believe that all people with developmental disabilities have strengths, abilities and inherent value and are equal before the law. We believe…

We value interactions, supports and leadership with people that are consistent with the CONCEPT OF NORMALIZATION. Normalization is “the use of culturally valued means to enable people to live culturally valued lives.” The concept of normalization holds that people with developmental disabilities ought to be supported in a manner that is consistent with what the…