We believe in the general principle that people are greater than they think they are.
All of our efforts are focused on ensuring each individual has the best opportunities to develop more confidence and skills to live as fulfilling and self-directed a life as possible, with a rightful place alongside fellow citizens in the community.
We recognise that each individual has their own unique relationships, experiences, strengths, needs, and future aspirations.
Aspire is committed to working with people from a core-values base that underpins all of our activities.
Core Values
- Each person has the right to receive respect for, and consideration of, their own individual qualities and diverse backgrounds – social, cultural, ethnic and religious.
- Each individual shares the same universal needs for somewhere to live, to have meaningful relationships and purposeful activities.
- We are committed to working in partnership alongside individuals, assisting them to maintain any existing positive and supportive relationships with family and friends and increase opportunities for establishing new ones.
- Each individual has the right to lead a full, socially valued and inter-dependent life within his or her community. This includes the right to employment opportunities.
- We believe in encouraging individuals to gain confidence, self-respect and practical skills in maintaining a healthy and safe lifestyle to enable them to take as much control over their lives as possible, including real decision-making powers in shaping the services provided in respect of them.
- We recognise the importance of providing flexible support services which evolve in accordance with the changing needs and aspirations of individuals.
Aspire Housing & Personal Development Services is committed to delivering the best possible, high quality services.
We work in partnership with individuals, who may have a range of needs and with families, carers and other professionals.
Those services will be appropriate, flexible, inclusive and responsive. They will promote individuals’ rights to a voice that is listened to, equality, choice and respect.
Aims
- To work with people, both individually and collectively, to jointly create solutions for each unique situation.
- To respond to the individual needs and aspirations of each person by supporting them in a positive manner, which will actively encourage them to take control of their lives.
- To assist individuals of all ages, families, Groups and communities to identify, pursue and achieve their personal aims which will enable them to contribute positively to society.
- To create and develop new services in response to need and aspirations.
Objectives
- To encourage individuals self-respect, confidence and abilities
- To promote inclusion and challenge any stigma we encounter.
- To ensure that all staff understand and implement our values.
- To train and develop staff to provide the highest quality care and support.
- To work closely with individuals, listen to and take full account of their experiences, views, needs and aspirations in order to develop appropriate support services and personal developments and secure the necessary funding to provide these.
Our Vision
To be an organisation that can consistently evidence that it keeps its promise: in doing everything possible to put the interests of the individuals with whom we work first and foremost in all that we do; an organisation that can be trusted to continually deliver highly flexible effective and cost-efficient services that demonstrably make a positive difference to those persons’ lives and benefit their families and local communities.