Philosophy and Values
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ur Philosophy and Values
The Child Abuse Prevention Center (CAP Center) philosophy is well described by this quote from the Board of Directors:
"Our community will be judged by whether we give our children a chance to grow up in a safe and healthy family environment. Once we unlock the full and incredibly positive capabilities of a child, we enable that child, its family, and the community to grow socially, emotionally, and spiritually."
Over the past 20 years, the CAP Center has been expanding the range of programming and collaborative activities it has customarily been involved in. The Board of Directors has also expanded, bringing to the CAP Center a range of varying experience, expertise and interests in the area of prevention of child abuse and neglect. Throughout this growth and development the mission statement has also evolved to reflect the purpose of the organization.
The CAP Center's sole purpose is to coordinate and develop systems designed to prevent or effectively respond to situations of abuse, neglect, or abandonment.
Values
Our values uphold our organizational beliefs - we believe in being Proactive and Effective, serving as a community Catalyst, being Responsive and working Collaboratively.
We believe that being Proactive means to initiate prevention recommendations to policy makers based on current data, research and trends; and that if we are unburdened by the dictates of bureaucracy, we can move boldly and assertively to advocate on behalf of all children.
We believe to be Effective we must actively and rigorously evaluate our programs in order to provide quality assurance at all levels of our programs.
We believe in order to be a Catalyst for change and action that we must advocate and initiate researched based quality programs.
We believe in being Responsive to our funders, colleagues, policy makers and the general public by having high standards of administrative, program and fiscal practices, promptly responding to informational needs and data; and by providing technical assistance as needed.
We believe that by working Collaboratively, we may serve as a vehicle for other agencies, policy makers, service providers, and citizens so they may come together on issues associated with child abuse and neglect.
"Our community will be judged by whether we give our children a chance to grow up in a safe and healthy family environment. Once we unlock the full and incredibly positive capabilities of a child, we enable that child, its family, and the community to grow socially, emotionally, and spiritually."
Over the past 20 years, the CAP Center has been expanding the range of programming and collaborative activities it has customarily been involved in. The Board of Directors has also expanded, bringing to the CAP Center a range of varying experience, expertise and interests in the area of prevention of child abuse and neglect. Throughout this growth and development the mission statement has also evolved to reflect the purpose of the organization.
The CAP Center's sole purpose is to coordinate and develop systems designed to prevent or effectively respond to situations of abuse, neglect, or abandonment.
Values
Our values uphold our organizational beliefs - we believe in being Proactive and Effective, serving as a community Catalyst, being Responsive and working Collaboratively.
We believe that being Proactive means to initiate prevention recommendations to policy makers based on current data, research and trends; and that if we are unburdened by the dictates of bureaucracy, we can move boldly and assertively to advocate on behalf of all children.
We believe to be Effective we must actively and rigorously evaluate our programs in order to provide quality assurance at all levels of our programs.
We believe in order to be a Catalyst for change and action that we must advocate and initiate researched based quality programs.
We believe in being Responsive to our funders, colleagues, policy makers and the general public by having high standards of administrative, program and fiscal practices, promptly responding to informational needs and data; and by providing technical assistance as needed.
We believe that by working Collaboratively, we may serve as a vehicle for other agencies, policy makers, service providers, and citizens so they may come together on issues associated with child abuse and neglect.