Mediated Home Share Services Guiding Principles:

• Every person, regardless of background, education or experience, is a person of value.


• Every person deserves to have a place in the community to call home.


• Home should be a nurturing place of comfort and safety.


• Having a home should not depend exclusively on one's ability to pay for it.


• Diversity and a variety of life-styles promote a healthy and vibrant community.


• A community is strengthened and community life enhanced when all of its members have a place to call home.


• Institutionalization of any kind should be a last resort.


• Everyone thrives in an atmosphere of compassion, mutual respect and loyalty.


• Relationship building and networking within communities leads to creative approaches to housing.


• Mediation skills can be learned by each and every one of us in order to grow personally and to enhance our commitment to each other's well being.


• With the right communication skills, all conflict is an opportunity for growth and mutual understanding.