The success of the Center for Healthy Schools Families & Communities rests on our enduring commitment to manifesting our core values in all that we think and do. These values serve as the central principals of our vision of partnership and change. Key values undergirding our work are:

Collaboration
	Working together with – not independent of – our clients to achieve shared outcomes.
Effectiveness
	Insuring that all of our services and programs are ‘evidence-based’ and consistent with research-proven best practices.
Customization
	Tailoring our services and programs to respond best to our clients’ unique situations and needs.
Innovation
	Keeping abreast of, and employing, cutting-edge techniques in every phase of service provision.
Accessibility
	Ensuring the delivery of services to all our clients – when, where and how they need.
Capacity-Building
	Equipping our project partners with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed in order to be responsive to the behavioral health needs of the children, youth and families they serve.
Cultural Sensitivity
	Considering the intersecting influences of race, ethnicity, language, immigrant status, socio-economic status, gender, religion and sexual orientation in all aspects of our work (planning, implementation, evaluation and research).
Empathy
	Having an in-depth understanding of the circumstances and motivations of our target populations and partners.