Advocacy
Our families fight hard to get services. We fight hard to keep them. Services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are not entitlement programs, which means that once you have services, there are no guarantees they will continue indefinitely.
Being “Person Centered” is a core concept underlying the philosophy of Journey Found.
Person Centered Thinking is a set of principles that is the foundation for Person Centered Planning.
View our written testimony on the state budget
Journey Found’s advocacy efforts focus on educating legislators about our people and the impact of our programs. We encourage our family leaders and supporters to speak out about our programs and issues impacting people with disabilities. We work together with the people we support, families, colleagues and our Connecticut legislators to ensure that funding remains in place and that the rights of people with intellectual disabilities are preserved.
As an organization devoted to serving people with disabilities, it is our duty to ensure that they get to exercise their human and civil rights to the fullest. A large part of living our mission at Journey Found relies on advocacy efforts with and for the people that we support. We work with each person to ensure that they understand how to be a good self-advocate in all aspects of their life. We help them define what they want and need in their lives, and we help them learn how to gain access to those things to fulfill their dreams.
Journey Found has well-established relationships with our state legislative delegations and actively participates in state and national advocacy groups working for policy innovation and revision that betters the lives of the people we work for, and the nonprofit community as a whole.
