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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="7-102" title_number="7" title_name="Developmental Disabilities Law" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <text>To advance the public interest, it is the policy of this State:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>To promote, protect, and preserve the human dignity, constitutional rights and liberties, social well-being, and general welfare of individuals with developmental disability in this State;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>To encourage the full development of the ability and potential of each individual with developmental disability in this State, no matter how severe the individual’s disability;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>To promote the economic security, standard of living, and meaningful employment of individuals with developmental disability;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>To foster the integration of individuals with developmental disability into the ordinary life of the communities where these individuals live;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>To support and provide resources to operate community services to sustain individuals with developmental disability in the community, rather than in institutions;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>To require the Administration to designate sufficient resources to foster and strengthen a permanent comprehensive system of community programming for individuals with developmental disability as an alternative to institutional care;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>To recognize the right of those individuals with developmental disability who need residential services to live in surroundings as normal as possible and to provide adequate facilities for this purpose;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>To provide appropriate social and protective services for those individuals with developmental disability who are unable to manage their own affairs with ordinary prudence;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="9">
    <text>To protect the rights of parents and to help parents and guardians in planning for and assisting those individuals with developmental disability who are unable to manage their own affairs;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="10">
    <text>To promote and provide for the development, maintenance, and coordination of all programs for individuals with developmental disability;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="11">
    <text>To advance research and professional training related to developmental disability; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="12">
    <text>To promote public understanding of these policies and programs provided in this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
