About Us

Our Mission: To promote optimal child development by empowering families to be resilient and to foster positive family relationships.

Our Vision: A connected community in which children and families are nurtured and supported to be happy, healthy and productive.

Our Core Values: We are an agency that lives it’s values in our work every day. Respect Self-Awareness Responsiveness Interdependence Playfulness

Our Possibility Imagine for a moment if family members could confidently communicate, in accountable and respectful language, with their parents, siblings and peers. Imagine if parents routinely modeled effective ways of problem solving with their children in ways that build self-esteem. What would be possible for future generations if we placed as much emphasis on developing the skills and competencies of cooperation, as we currently do on individual achievement? Imagine how well society would function if this was the normal way of being.

Essential Skills

• Appreciation and understanding of self and others
• Active listening
• Service to others
• Expectation of a positive future
• Capacity for and connection to learning
• Life skills (good decision making, assertiveness and impulse control)
• Problem solving skills
• Negotiation skills
• Conflict resolution skills
• Emotional mastery
• Seeking out objective feedback

Click here for Our 2019 Annual Report

Our Board of Directors 2020/21:

Susan Clayton, Chair

Chad Johnson, Vice Chair

Christy Liu, Treasurer

Jessica Brown, Secretary

Leslie Barker, Director

Carla Marsh, Director

Molly Hayes, Director

Emily Zhang, Director

Lindsay Hogan, Director