Inclusion: Children, youth, adults, and families have a right to social, educational and economic inclusion in society.
Recognition of Rights: Children and youth are entitled to protection, economic security, provision of services, education, health care, opportunity, and participation in community life.
Family: PCRS works to support the love, care, and engagement of parents and extended family, which are central to the well being of children and youth. Where parents cannot meet their child’s fundamental needs, Pacific Community Resources advocates for, and endeavours to provide, substitute support and care matched to developmental level.
Economic Security: For adults, achieving and maintaining employment is critical to their economic security; self-determination; and community inclusion. For youth, educational attainment and the development of life skills are critical to future employment readiness. PCRS works to address: educational upgrading, life skills, barriers to employment, sustained attachment to the labour force, living wages, and income assistance for those in need. It also advocates for systemic policy reform.
Community: PCRS works to strengthen healthy, caring and inclusive communities as part of building on the social determinants of health.
Sustainable Solutions: Pacific Community Resources works to foster the healthy and sustainable development of communities and build community resources and assets as part of its service delivery approach.
Advocacy: Pacific Community Resources supports self-advocacy; advocates on behalf of individuals and families; and engages in systemic advocacy to identify gaps in service, policy issues, and strategies to address social justice issues such as: poverty, abuse, mental health, substance abuse, violence, homelessness, racism and marginalization.
Diversity: Pacific Community Resources respects and values diversity of culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, and sexual orientation.
Cultural Enrichment: Pacific Community Resources promotes arts and cultural enrichment as an integral part of service delivery to foster the well-being and community inclusion of people we serve.
Collaboration: Pacific Community Resources Society is committed to effectively collaborating and partnering with individuals, communities, business, other agencies, and governments. Collaboration is essential to meeting the needs of children, youth, adults, families and communities.
Comprehensiveness: Pacific Community Resources works to achieve a seamless service system with the full range of services accessible to communities, including: prevention, harm reduction, early intervention, treatment/intensive intervention and crisis response. A comprehensive approach also means ensuring people’s basic needs for food, clothing, housing/shelter, and access to transportation are met.
Welcoming: We strive to make all our resources welcoming, friendly, and non-bureaucratic.
Honesty, Respect, and Choice: We are role models for children, youth, adults and families we serve, and thereby promote values development through our own attitudes, behaviour and counselling. As role models we promote honesty; assertiveness; respect and consideration of others; a democratic viewpoint; autonomy from dependence on drugs or alcohol; responsible sexuality; and the right to choice including abortion. We use an educational approach to counter sexism, racism, homophobia, violence, aggression, harassment and other forms of discrimination.
Empowerment: The resilience of youth and adults is secured by building on the individual’s strengths, including having opportunities to volunteer and take leadership roles – to give and not only receive; to lead and not only follow.
Quality Services/Service Excellence: Pacific Community Resources is dedicated to the provision of high quality services. We strive to achieve this through: recruitment and retention of skilled, diverse, dedicated staff; staff training and development; community-based research and evidence-based practice; supervision and leadership; continuous quality improvement including regular reviews, feedback and agency accreditation; and more.
Staff Participation: Central to Pacific Community Resources history is the inclusion of staff in the governance and overall leadership of the agency and its development. Pacific Community Resources pioneered the democratic participation of staff in the governance of a not-for-profit society. Staff are elected as representatives to the Board of Directors with full voice and vote, as well as on all Board Committees (with the exception of the Executive Committee) ensuring staff have a direct voice in agency affairs.