Issues which may not be a concern, or may not even be identified today, can become a serious concern in a very few days or weeks. Leave room in our workload so that we can respond to the many unforeseen issues that emerge each year. As a result, we never were able to follow through completely, since new priorities arose and overtook our prescribed workplan. And finally, we want our plans to move us ahead toward our Goal and Vision. Too often our work is simply reactionary, we must find more effective ways to be proactive.
Good planning starts with good information.
The Value of One - Respecting and Responding to the Unique Qualities of Individuals. The first section of this document is an attempt to highlight and describe the key issues facing our Association at present. While it does not give a comprehensive analysis of each issue, we hope it will provide enough information to tell people what the main issues are and why we should be concerned about them. In preparing this document, we shared it with many people for feedback and discussed it with our Self-Advocates Council in an attempt to take complex material and make it as accessible as possible. Our feedback on this document so far has been very positive, however, we are open to any suggestions as to how to improve it in the future.