Our Vision:
Full inclusion
of people with disabilities in society.
Our Mission:
The ILCW, Inc.
promotes self determination and full inclusion of people
with
disabilities in Wisconsin.
We educate and
advocate for policies, resources, practices, and attitudes
that support
independent living.
We provide and
support independent living philosophy and services to maximize the
leadership,
empowerment, and
productivity of individual with disabilities in order that each
will live and
participate in their community of choice
The Independent Living Philosophy
The Philosophy
of Independent Living is to promote:
Consumer Control
Peer Support
Self-help
Self-determination
Equal access
Individual and
Systems advocacy
These things
will maximize the leadership, empowerment, independence and
productivity
of individuals
with disabilities and assure the full integration and inclusion of
individuals with
disabilities
into the mainstream of American Society.
We
must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all
citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any
oppression, any injustice, any hatred is a wedge designed to attack our
civilization.
~Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
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