Mission Statements
A mission statement is a broad, usually brief description of
- What populations you seek to serve
- What problems, concerns or opportunities you seek to address
- What you want to achieve in the long run
Your mission statement
- Provides the definitive purpose of your organization to the rest of the world
- Is the point of reference around which your board, staff and volunteers develop common understandings of the organization's reason for being, its work and its style
- Is the touchstone from which all planning proceeds and to which all evaluation returns
- Does not change frequently, but may be changed if the community needs and conditions change
On this page, you will find examples of mission statements from FRCs and other family strengthening organizations.
If you would like to add mission statements to our document bank, you may email them to ccasparie@youth4change.org.
Please be sure that submission of documents for inclusion on this page does not violate the copyright of any person or entity and that your agency's internal policies will allow you to redistribute your mission statement in this way.
Mission Statement Examples
Strategies
Strategies provides quality training, coaching, facilitation, curriculum development and practical application of research and best practice for the growth and development of effective programs, organizations and networks that strengthen families and communities.
We promote a dynamic movement of family and community strengthening organizations and partnerships by providing information and opportunities for peer support, dialogue and strategic action.
Youth for Change
Youth for Change creates and sustains programs and services that promote healthy communities by fostering the unique potential of all individuals.
Children's Bureau
Children's Bureau is committed to providing vulnerable children - especially in the early years - the foundation necessary to become caring and productive adults by:
- Preventing child abuse and neglect
- Protecting, nurturing and treating abused children
- Enhancing the potential of families and communities to meet the needs of their children.
- Advancing the welfare of children and families through superior programs in foster care, adoptions, child development, parent education, mental health, research and advocacy.
Sample Mission Statement
The Carole Robertson Center for Learning is a multicultural nonprofit partnership among parents, youth, and community, dedicated to nurturing, supporting, and strengthening family life through quality child, youth, and family development programs. The Center serves Chicago families and facilitates community advocacy on child and family issues.
Sample taken from Family Support Centers: A Program Manager's Toolkit-Volume 1: Program Planning and Evaluation, Family Support America.
Terms and Conditions
The Family Support Document Bank is a service offered for your convenience by the Strategies program. The purpose of the Document Bank is to allow a place for family support professionals to exchange electronic copies of program forms, policies, and procedures in an effort to reduce work and share effective tools. These documents are not reviewed or endorsed by Strategies staff, their agencies, or the State of California, Department of Social Services, Office of Child Abuse Prevention. If you choose to adopt any of these forms or policies and procedures it is your responsibility to make sure that they meet your needs and adhere to any programmatic or legal guidelines which your programs follow.
Use of the Family Support Document Bank constitutes your agreement to these terms and conditions.
