Mission
Rainbows United, Inc. enhances the lives of children with special needs and their families by bringing together community resources and providing customized services.

Vision
Bringing potential to life by elevating the uniqueness of children and their families.

Core Competencies

Advocacy
We understand, advocate for, and assume a leadership role on issues that impact early childhood, families, and individuals with disabilities.

Specialized Services
We continuously monitor, evaluate, revise and expand child-directed, family guided services to reflect emerging knowledge of best practices and community needs.

Integrated Services
We provide experiences that promote optimal development and growth of each child in care.

Family Support
We listen to families and provide customized services that reflect sensitivity to their individual lifestyle, cultural orientation, circumstances and needs.

Community Outreach
We strive to be a premier outreach agency in meeting the individual needs of families and providers seeking information and resources.

Partnership
We promote and welcome strategic collaborations to maximize available resources.

Financial Resources
We access multiple funding streams to meet service needs among various target populations.

Values
Elevating the uniqueness of children and their families, bringing potential to life.

Ethics
We apply the highest professional and ethical standards in all that we do.

Parental rights
We regard parents and legal guardians as their children's primary decision-makers and caregivers.

Teamwork
We work together as a team alongside parents, guardians, and other community service providers to meet the specialized needs of each child and family we server.

Skilled employees
We regard our employees as our most important resource and encourage and support their continuous personal and professional growth.

Communication
We value open communication in every aspect of our mission.  We welcome a participatory work environment in which opinions and perspectives of our employees, families and community partners are invited and valued.

Innovation
We value research-based methodologies and innovations.  We are active learners and exchange ideas, expertise and knowledge with others so that collectively, we enhance service quality.

No limitations
We provide services dictated by the needs of individuals and their families at the earliest possible opportunity, regardless of limitations that may be imposed by existing service models.

Accountability
We follow through with the commitments we make and engage others whenever circumstances require a change in course.

Fiscal responsibility
We recognize the trust donors place in us and are committed to sound fiscal management of agency resources.

Alliances
We actively partner with public and private community service agencies, businesses, corporations, foundations and institutions of higher learning to provide high-quality services to our client base.