Our mission is to marshal resources and promote public policies to advance a comprehensive prevention agenda that emphasizes the principles of family support.
Our vision is that all neighborhoods will have quality family support programs to promote and strengthen families.
Family Support Principles
- Family Support is governed, designed, and improved by participants and community members.
- Family Support is relationship-based, fostering respectful partnerships between and among parents, peers, and professionals.
- Family Support is strengths-based, building on existing individual, family, community, and cultural abilities and vitalities.
- Family Support services are designed by and for participants to meet their priorities and are collaborative among agencies to insure easy access and use.
- Family Support reflects, respects, and enhances the cultures of the neighborhood through the staff it hires and the materials and activities it provides.
- Family Support services are enhanced through program evaluations that reflect family support principles and that contribute to continuous program improvement.
- Family Support services are based in the community, serve the entire family without eligibility requirements, and are voluntary.
