Portage’s Mission, Vision, and Values

Our Mission

Portage fosters the strengths and skills of substance dependent persons to enable them through comprehensive and cost-effective interventions based on the therapeutic community approach, to live lives of sobriety, filled with dignity, self-respect, and accomplishment.

Our Vision

Portage will develop its unique, positive psychology based therapeutic community approach in order to be recognised as a standard in the field. It will offer both residential and non-residential services, as well as training, project management and community development in collaboration with other providers in a continuum of services.

Our Values

• Portage strongly believes in the capacity of human beings to strive towards freedom of choice, dignity and autonomy. For Portage, the pursuit of personal growth is the inevitable result of the mobilisation of the individual’s internal resources fostered by the stimulating and enriching influence of a favourable environment.
• Portage believes in being expressly client-centered, emphasising the security of the client and delivering quality services with financial and management discipline.
• Portage has an unconditional respect for the capacity of individuals to grow and make appropriate choices for themselves.