Our Credo
“Nothing about me, without me!”
People with disabilities have been long subjected to the Medical Model of service provision. That “medical model” casually assumes that “professionals” working within an organization or agency, are somehow more qualified than we are, when it comes to making decisions about our lives. The problem with that; beyond just the incredible disrespect it implies, is that it discounts the reality that more often than not, the best judge of a person’s abilities, inabilities, hopes, dreams, aspirations and desires, is the individual themselves. “Nothing about me without me” has become the disability community’s shout for respect, and it’s concept that you are in the best position to know what it is that you can do and/or need, is how the Massena Independent Living Center will interact with you from our first contact on.
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