Disability Rights Center
of the Virgin Islands
Phone 340-772-1200 Fax 340-772-0609
63 Cane Carlton
Fredericksted, VI
00840
Advance the legal rights of people with disabilities in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
DRCVI’s vision is a barrier free, inclusive world that values diversity, culture, and each individual.
In this world all people with disabilities have:
Equality,
Dignity
Power,
Freedom of choice,
Independence, and
Freedom from abuse, neglect, and discrimination.
They have quality, culturally responsive, safe, affordable, and accessible:
Housing,
Education,
Healthcare,
Technology,
Transportation, and
Individual and family supports that they choose and direct:
People with disabilities have the right to family, social, and intimate relationships. They are financially secure, can make life choices, and have opportunities for satisfying work, recreation, spiritual lives, and community service.
Our advocacy will be zealous, dedicated, effective, creative, innovative and daring.
We will take on issues of importance to the disability community.
We will integrate a variety of advocacy approaches in all of our work, including self-advocacy, legal, non-legal, media, and public policy and investigatory.
We value diversity. Our staff should reflect the ethnic, language, and disability diversity, and demographic diversity of the U.S. Virgin Islands: rural, age, sexual orientation, a range of different life experiences that reflect the disability community.
Our advocacy efforts will affirmatively address the needs of traditionally underserved and under-represented communities through partnership with such communities.
Our advocacy will be of high quality regardless of the type of service, the nature of the problem or who the client is. We will be honest, prepared, truthful, and informed.
All staff is expected to contribute and their contributions will be valued and respected.
When representing individuals:
N.B. A note of thanks goes to PAI for their words and inspiration.
