Every person should have the opportunity to develop their potential, regardless of personal problems or circumstance.

Consequently, all societies have a duty to fight the stigma and discrimination faced by people with psychological disorders, intellectual difficulties, history of treatment and rehabilitation, as well as to develop a holistic, integrated system that provides ethical, humane, and individual support, rehabilitation and opportunities for recovery.

A progressive system of care encourages a mutually respectful relationship between those who use services and those who provide them, protects the right of clients and the ethical autonomy of professionals, and facilitates the inclusion of people, their families and others concerned into the process of advocacy and betterment of the quality of support.