Vision, Mission, Values

Our Vision

A community where all individuals are valued citizens deserving respect, dignity and rights.

Our Mission

Skills supports individuals with disabilities and their families in their right to learn and grow in the community. We provide services that encourage and support individual choice and opportunity.

Skills Society Core Values

Supporting Engaged Citizenship

Citizenship is about belonging and contributing and having access to important opportunities and choices. As Mark Kingwell describes it, “Citizenship is, in short, one of the profound categories that make us who we are, one of the crucial ways humans go about creating a life for themselves”. At Skills Society, our work focuses squarely on taking action that enhances and celebrates positive citizenship outcomes for individuals.

Safeguarding Healthy Relationships

Social and material vulnerability are features of daily life for people with disabilities. Skills Society works to build positive and powerful relationships both inside and outside the organization to strengthen personal and political safety nets for the individuals we support and for the broader disability community.

Seeking Creative Collaborations

We believe that social change comes from the strength of groups recognizing their commonalities, sharing resources, and working together. The disability community has often been overlooked in social change initiatives. We are committed to ensuring that we take our place among the talented and inventive groups and individuals working for more inclusive communities.