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MISSION:Holistically helping individuals build healthier lives from the inside out.
VISION:Empowering individuals to make healthy and safe decisions through trauma, gender, and culturally responsive holistic public health services.
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VALUES:
Anti-Oppression
- Dismantle systems of oppression to create a more equitable society
- Create inclusive, anti-oppressive and participant centered policy and practices
- Intentionally build an organization that reflects diverse identities and lived experiences within board, staff, participants, and partners
- Amplify the voices of individuals who have deep, profound knowledge and insight that come from experiencing severe racial and social injustice
- Fight poverty; not the poor
- Be accountable to yourselves, participants, and the community by being ethical, dependable, transparent, and acting with integrity
- Invest in and prioritize self-care to support a trauma responsive culture and retention of staff and participants
- Take responsibility for our impact on members of marginalized groups regardless of our intent because good intent does not negate the negative impact micro aggressions have
- Seek out and engage diverse participant, community, and stakeholder perspectives
- Support peer learning and collaboration inside and outside the organization
- Value and actively participate in intersectional social justice movements
- Empower those who have been directly impacted by injustice to emerge as partners and leaders of the movements for justice we are building
- Cultivate a safe, welcoming, and genuine organizational culture that values everyone’s contributions
- Treat everyone with respect, consideration, sensitivity, and dignity by honoring all identities and lived experiences
- Foster the ability to recognize and address personal biases proactively
- Promote open and honest communication
- Challenge opposing views respectfully – call others in rather than calling them out
- The practice of being open, honest, and straightforward with customers, employees, and stakeholders.
- This includes sharing information, whenever ethically possible, about company operations, such as performance, revenue, internal processes, sourcing, pricing, and business values.
- The process and act of keeping certain employee, participant, and company-related information private and away from others' knowledge.
- A culture that makes employees and participants feel respected, supported, and valued, and allows them to fully participate in the organization.
- The practice of conducting business in a way that is ethical and moral. It involves ensuring that your actions and intentions are aligned, and that your interactions with customers, employees, suppliers, investors, and regulators are consistent with your stated goals.
- The company believes in fostering a culture where individuals at all levels are empowered to take initiative, inspire others, and drive positive change.
- It implies a commitment to developing leaders at every stage of their career, providing opportunities for growth, and recognizing and rewarding leadership behaviors.
- Employees are encouraged to take ownership of their work, make decisions, and contribute their ideas
Empowerment’s values were adopted in part from the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics