1. Everyone has the right to live in a healthy community.
    
2. The community has the responsibility to address the needs of the individual within the community and to provide the prerequisites for health.
    
3. The community, itself, through the interaction of individuals and groups can best determine its own needs.
    
4. The individual, the Community Health Centre and the community at large are partners sharing the responsibility for meeting these needs.
    
5. We view the individual as a whole person in terms of cultural background and economic circumstances.
    
6. We recognize each person in relation to his/her social and physical environment. We believe that promoting health involves improving the environment.
    
7. The promotion of a healthy community includes: The provision of service, education, preventive measures, client participation, advocacy and community development.
    
8. Some members of the community have greater needs and therefore require more of our services, advocacy and support. By empowering these members, the whole community is strengthened.
    

Mission:

• contributing to the physical, emotional and social well-being of the people living here and
• helping the East Mississauga community realize its opportunities and deal with its problems
   

Goals:

1. To provide social and health services for individuals and families and to act as a resource for the entire community.
    
2. To assist the community to make the prerequisites for health available to all its members.
    
3. To be a community-based and directed organization, that requires participation and involvement by East Mississauga residents, including Community Health Centre clients, in its services, planning and management.
    
4. To be an organization that provides the opportunity for neighbours to interact with each other to promote individual and community goals of well-being.
    
5. To coordinate community and agency resources in order to facilitate and to improve the provision of human services.
    
6. To assume a leadership and advocacy role in identifying and responding to unmet community and individual need.
    

We will work with all parts of our community to improve the health of East Mississauga.