Description
MISSION
North Quabbin Citizen Advocacy is an association to develop and support relationships for people who will benefit from guidance, companionship and/or advocacy.
Our objective is to provide protection and advocacy for vulnerable people with mental impairments and disorders by fostering one-to-one personal relationships between people living in the North Quabbin Community.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Our Work is Vital
We are being challenged in ways we have not known before.
- Survival - Work - Family - Home - Food - Safety
- Where is community with physical distance?
- We need each other.
- Communities work best when the web of relationships include us all—the poor, elderly, and disabled side by side with the rich, young, and able-bodied.
- The informal network of mutually beneficial relationships defines community.
- Disabled people are often not included.
- NQCA invites ordinary citizens to reach out and include our disabled neighbors, and in doing so strengthens the web for us all.
Our Process
- NQCA recruits and supports unpaid advocates to be helpful friends to disabled people.
- NQCA, through the relationships it supports, helps disabled people, their advocates, and the entire community as neighborly caring increases.
Our Impact
- Through newsletters, presentations, and discussions, NQCA’s work invites others to call forth more neighborly caring in other communities.
- Lessons from working with hundreds of people in caring relationships serve as a guide to others on the “how to” questions of initiating and supporting freely-given relationships.