Mission

The mission of CANAR is to serve as an avenue for collaboration and cooperation between Administrators of rehabilitation projects serving Native American persons with disabilities, to increase and enhance the quality of services, resulting in positive outcomes for Native American persons with disabilities.

Purpose

CANAR will advance and improve rehabilitation services by:

• Providing a forum to enable administrators of Native American rehabilitation and to study, deliberate, and act upon matters affecting rehabilitation with the ultimate goal of expanding quality rehabilitation services to Native American persons with disabilities.
• Providing a resource for the formulation and expression of collective points of view of administrators for Native American rehabilitation on issues affecting rehabilitation on reservations, trust territories, Alaskan Native villages, and across the country and to disseminate these views to service providers, related facilities, companies, and concerned citizens.
• Providing a means of communication with related organizations and governmental bodies on matters related to rehabilitation service provision, education and research.
• Conducting and supporting research demonstration which leads to an improvement of rehabilitation services for Native Americans with disabilities on reservations, trust territories, Alaskan Native villages, and across the country.
• Promoting and maintaining service outcomes that develop a professional identity for practitioners in rehabilitation whose career goals are rehabilitation service provision, education, and administration to Native Americans with disabilities.
• Conducting and supporting efforts to increase the number of Native American practitioners in Vocational Rehabilitation.