Core Values and Professional Ethics
The InRRDP believes in the following core values:
- Recreation and leisure are essential to enhance individual and community life
- Rural communities are valuable to the State of Indiana and deserve park, recreation, leisure, and tourism opportunities
- The InRRDP staff believes in and follows the
Community Development Society's (CDS)
Principles of Good
Practice:
- Promote active and representative participation toward enabling all community members to meaningfully influence the decisions that affect their lives.
- Engage community members in learning about and understanding community issues, and the economic, social, environmental, political, psychological, and other impacts associated with alternative courses of action.
- Incorporate the diverse interests
and cultures of the community in the
community development process;
- disengage from support of any effort that is likely to adversely affect the disadvantaged members of a community.
- Work actively to enhance the leadership capacity of community members, leaders, and groups within the community.
- Be open to using the full range of action strategies to work toward the long term sustainability and well being of the community.
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