Skills Strategic Plan

The Skills Vision Statement

Skills of Central Pennsylvania, Inc. is an organization that supports person-centered approaches for providing high-quality, cost-effective services.

The Skills Mission Statement

Skills of Central Pennsylvania, Inc. is committed to creating opportunities, providing choice and support, and promoting recovery to enhance all aspects of people’s lives.

Guiding Principles

  • We are committed to providing a safe, healthy, and supportive living and working environment.
  • We are committed to promoting respect and dignity to individuals, families, employees, and customers.
  • We are committed to developing and maintaining open and honest communication with individuals, families, employees and customers.
  • We are committed to being person-centered.
  • We are committed to providing the highest quality services in a cost-effective manner.
  • We are committed to be responsive to the changing needs, requirements, and markets for our services.

Values

Because we believe in dignity and worth of every individual, we are committed to operating according to the values of:

  • Empowerment: We are committed to promoting a life of choice and independence for the people we support. We are further committed to training and to entrusting our employees to perform their jobs for the well-being of the individuals and for our organization.
  • Quality: We are committed to improving current processes and services and to meeting and exceeding the expectations of the individuals we support, their families, our employees, and our customers.
  • Integrity: We will always conduct ourselves with the highest level of integrity.
  • Learning: We value learning that enhances the delivery of services, creates awareness of new possibilities, and reinforces that learning is ongoing.
  • Partnership: We believe in building relationships with individuals, employees, families and friends, business and industry, funding sources, public officials, and other community resources to strengthen our capacity to provide quality resources.