About ARCH
Vision and Mission Statement
VISION
A world in which all people with disabilities enjoy social justice and equal participation in society and our communities
MISSION STATEMENT
ARCH Disability Law Centre, as a specialty legal clinic with a provincial mandate, undertakes to achieve this Vision by:
• Ensuring our work has Ontario wide impact focusing on, identifying and
removing systemic barriers
• Addressing issues that have an impact on low income people with
• Addressing issues that have an impact on low income people with
disabilities, including the root causes of poverty
• Empowering people with disabilities
• Being recognized as experts in the law as it affects people with
• Empowering people with disabilities
• Being recognized as experts in the law as it affects people with
disabilities
• Addressing the heightened disadvantage, marginalization and exclusion
• Addressing the heightened disadvantage, marginalization and exclusion
faced by people with disabilities by reason of factors such as gender,
race, age, language, economic status and sexual orientation.
VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
ARCH is guided by the following set of core values:
• The dignity and worth of all persons with disabilities must be respected;
• Persons with disabilities have the right to life, self-determination, and
• Persons with disabilities have the right to life, self-determination, and
full participation in a society free from barriers to their inclusion and
integration;
• Persons with disabilities themselves are in the best position to
• Persons with disabilities themselves are in the best position to
determine their own priorities;
• All persons have a common responsibility to create communities
• All persons have a common responsibility to create communities
accessible to all persons with disabilities.
Additionally, ARCH is guided by the following set of core organizational principles:
• ARCH operates in accordance with the above core values;
• ARCH is a community-based organization, governed by a Board of
• ARCH is a community-based organization, governed by a Board of
Directors composed of a majority of persons with disabilities;
• ARCH is accountable to persons with disabilities in Ontario, its
• ARCH is accountable to persons with disabilities in Ontario, its
members and its funders.
Adopted by the Board of Directors, November 23, 2010
