Guiding Principles

Family Success Centers all abide by the principles of family support practice. The following are principles that guide our work:

• Staff and families work together in relationships based on equality and respect. 
• Staff enhance families’ capacity to support the growth and development of all family members–adults, youth, and children.     
• Families are resources to their own members, to other families, to programs, and to communities.
• Programs affirm and strengthen families’ cultural, racial, and linguistic identities and enhance their ability to function in a multicultural society.
• Programs are embedded in their communities and contribute to the community-building process.
• Programs advocate with families for services and systems that are fair, responsive, and accountable to the families served.
• Practitioners work with families to mobilize formal and informal resources to support family development.
• Programs are flexible and continually responsive to emerging family and community issues.
• Principles of family support are modeled in all program activities, including planning, governance, and administration.