Mission, Values and Goals

Department for Children and Families

Mission: To protect children, promote healthy families and encourage personal responsibility.

Rehabilitation Services (RS)

Our mission: Working in partnership with Kansans with disabilities to achieve their goals for employment, independence and self-reliance.

Our values and goals:

RS values the worth, rights and contributions of people with disabilities. Our goals are to:

• Guarantee meaningful participation in planning and obtaining services through informed choice and shared responsibility.
• Deliver rehabilitation services that meet or exceed the expectations of individuals served.
• Achieve high quality rehabilitation outcomes.
• Advocate the rights of persons with disabilities.

RS values competent, facilitative and responsive staff. Our goals are to:

• Use outcome oriented performance standards for all staff.
• Recruit, employ, support, develop and promote qualified staff, and compensate them equitably.
• Practice open communication and participation.
• Celebrate exemplary performance.

RS values a supportive and accountable organization. Our goals are to:

• Promote an organizational climate of trust and consistency.
• Establish management systems that support participation.
• Use management practices that emphasize outcomes.
• Use measures of client satisfaction and other outcomes to improve organization performance.

RS values responsive acquisition and accountable management of resources. Our goals are to:

• Allocate and manage all resources, including staff, in a timely manner according to the changing needs of Kansans with disabilities.
• Increase resources to improve and expand the scope and quality of services.
• Collaborate with others in the public and private sectors to insure that the needs of Kansans with disabilities are addressed.

RS values public support. Our goals are to:

• Involve persons with disabilities and other consumers in developing agency policy and legislation.
• Obtain the active participation of business and industry.
• Assist Kansas employers in meeting their workforce needs through referral of qualified individuals with disabilities.
• Inform and educate the public.

Effective Date: May 1, 1998; Updated May 20, 2013