Vision
Our richly diverse community will be healthy, safe, educated, just and compassionate
where all people work together to achieve their full potential and celebrate
their lives.
Mission
To achieve sustainable social, health, educational and economic outcomes
through engaging the community in a planning and implementation process
that coordinates and optimizes public, private and individual actions and
resources.
Values
The Community Action Network values the following:
- Sustainable community collaborative efforts
- Proactive, planned responses to community needs based on the best available
data
- A comprehensive long-term view
- Celebrating diversity
- Inclusiveness
- Family friendly policies
- Social well-being
- Economic equity
- Environmental consciousness
- Best practices
- Customers
- Openness and accountability
- Results oriented actions
- Focus on prevention and treatment strategies to lessen the necessity for
crisis intervention
Goals
- Increase community awareness of Community Action Network health, social and human service issues in order to involve all the community and secure resources to accomplish its mission and goals. improve community well being.
- Provide accurate and timely information that the community will use in addressing community issues.
- Develop and prioritize strategies in each issue area and actively share them with the entire community.
- Encourage and mobilize CAN partners and the broader community to use their resources to address CAN strategic priorities the identified strategic priorities.
Roles And Functions
The Community Action Network provides a Community Forum for creative and collaborative problem solving, inclusive community participation and community consensus building. It also provides tools that community organizations can use to most effectively leverage resources to meet evolving community challenges.
These tools include:
- an ongoing assessment of community conditions, resources and needs;
- community action plans for leveraging the resoures against the identified needs;
- and a review and evaluation process to determine the effectiveness of resource use.
