Our Values
Value Statements:
Accountability
Acknowledging and assuming responsibility for our actions, attitudes, decisions, and behavior. This is applied to individual accountability on the part of directors, employees, and volunteers, and accountability of the organization as a whole.
Community-led focused
Understanding and addressing the needs of the communities we serve, ensuring that members have a voice in the services they receive and how they receive them.
Collaboration
Willingness to work together with partners and the community to achieve better outcomes. We believe that through collaboration emerges a richness of thoughts, ideas, and varied perspectives that cannot be acquired through a single approach.
Compassion
Having a genuine desire to help others who are in need or distressed, especially those who are marginalized, and providing a helping hand to lift them to a position of strength.
Equity
Believing that everyone has the right to be treated fairly and justly and be given the opportunity to achieve even if it means that they require more support and resources than others to correct the imbalances or remove barriers they face.
Inclusivity
Creating and fostering a welcoming environment that embraces all that a person has to give, respecting everyone by allowing them to bring their whole, authentic selves to any space or function.
Integrity
Acting with honesty and honor based on sound ethical practices, always striving to be truthful.
Trust
Building trust with each other and the communities we serve, committing to authentic relationships and honest communication