Our Mission

The Robbie Vierra-Lambert Spinal Cord Organization for Regaining Excellence (RVL S.C.O.R.E.) is a volunteer organization of people whose lives have been touched by spinal cord injuries. Our purpose is to assist paralyzed individuals toward independent lives through the sharing of information. Our goals are: to create programs that help newly injured individuals re-integrate into their communities, maintain an information network that will provide answers to practical questions, as well as keeping paralyzed individuals bodies ready for "The Cure". Our Philosophy is based on an independent living, help us help ourselves model. While our primary focus is to help people with a spinal cord injury, we will never loose our recognition that we are a part of a larger community of people with disabilities and we will empower all to take actions to achieve their highest level of independence and personal fulfillment.

• Providing in hospital and in home, personal visits, telephone or e-mail advising to newly paralyzed individuals and families of their choices regarding hospital, insurance, and personal care procedures.
  
• Providing local ad placement, screening and hands on training of Personal Care Attendants to provide specialized care for paralyzed individuals which eases the tension built between paralyzed individuals and their families, while increasing their quality of life, independence and personal fulfillment.
  
• Assisting in the location of wheelchair accessible transportation, housing, home modification and special equipment through personal, telephone, e-mail consultations, and by providing a World Wide Web site that directs paralyzed individuals, their families, and people with various disabilities to companies and organizations that provide the desired services and/or products.
  
• Providing peer counseling for newly paralyzed individuals and their families.
  
• Educating our children, paralyzed individuals and the general public on living and working with the disabled in our community through recreational activities with paralyzed individuals and their families.
  
• Creation and implementation of a New High-Tec Advanced Therapy Program, which includes standing, ambulation (walking), physical, occupational, massage, vocational, and chiropractic therapies, which will help paralyzed individuals maintain an optimum level of health, while keeping their bodies ready for "The Cure", save millions of dollars on long term care, and most importantly avoiding isolation of paralyzed individuals in their own homes or skilled nursing facilities, while allowing them to become active members of their communities once again.