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| Category | Component | Definition/explanation |
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| Principle | Culturally safe | Critically reflects, recognizes, analyzes, and addresses power imbalances, institutional discrimination, and colonial relationships in the context of community rehabilitation care to advance therapeutic encounters |
| Equity-focused | Supports all people reaching their full health potential and are not disadvantaged from attaining it or accessing health services because of socially determined circumstances |
| Evidence-informed | Distills, disseminates, and applies the best available evidence from research, context, and experience and uses that evidence to inform and improve community rehabilitation practice and policy |
| Person- and family-centred | Partners with clients and families to design and provide care that is holistic, culturally safe, acceptable, respectful, and responsive to individual preferences, needs, and values |
| Restorative | Works to attain and maintain the highest level of function possible by doing with a person, rather than doing for a person |
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| Organization | Appropriate | Community rehabilitation services are provided in the most suitable setting for providing safe, accessible, and timely care aligned with individuals’ needs and potential to achieve rehabilitation goals |
| Coordinated | Care is organized between the community rehabilitation team and other care providers across the continuum of care. Clients and family are encouraged to participate in goal setting and care planning |
| Continuity | A series of initiating, consistent, and concluding care events that result when a person seeks community rehabilitation services in one or more settings |
| Evaluated | Consistent measurement to monitor and demonstrate health system, program, and individual outcomes that contribute to enhanced functional independence |
| Stepped | The most effective and most appropriate community rehabilitation services are initiated first, adapted, and increased as needed and then reduced in a coordinated manner when an endpoint is reached |
| Team-based | Includes rehabilitation professionals and support staff from multiple disciplines who work collaboratively and in an integrated way |
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