Mission

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The mission of Zuni Entrepreneurial Enterprises (ZEE)/Empowerment Inc. is to provide individuals who have intellectual/developmental disabilities the opportunities to fully participate in their communities through supports and services to develop needed independent living skills and their rights as human beings are honored and their dignity is respected. 

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Supports and services are provided within the Zuni Reservation, and southern McKinley and Cibola Counties.  The agency will accomplish this mission by operating personal care and supervised/living supports programs that provide individualized care as a mechanism for the developmentally disabled adults we serve.    

 

This involves:

 

Community presence - Sharing the physical environment that defines community life. 

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Choice – Empowering the individual to make decisions in both everyday and life determinant matters. 

 

Competency - The opportunity to demonstrate one's value and abilities to others and one's self. 

 

Goal setting - Establishing and achieving goals for one's self. 

 

Respect – The opportunity to be respected for what one is and does.  Eliminating the stereotype that often follows the term "disabled". 

 

Community Participation - The opportunity to be actively and purposefully involved in the community.