Our mission is to create hope and opportunity for youth who are homeless by assisting them to permanently leave the streets, secure stable housing, and build self-sufficient, satisfying lives.

Our vision is to be a national thought and practice leader in assisting youth who are homeless to become stably housed and independent.

Excellence:  

• We benchmark from our youth's viewpoints and deliver what is most important to them.
• We are committed to achieving superior long-term outcomes for our youth and our funders.
• We set high, measurable goals and hold ourselves accountable to achieve them.
• We recognize that addressing challenges head-on is a requirement for success.
• We look within and outside the nonprofit world to learn.

Integrity: 

• We are guided by absolute fairness and honesty in everything we do.
• We match our actions to our words.
• We balance the expectations and earn the trust of our youth, employees, communities, and funders.
• We offer our youth programs and services that fit their needs and provide great value.

Respect:

• We value and respect diversity of background, thought, and style.
• We ensure that every human interaction is caring, courteous, and respectful.
• We expect leaders to make difficult decisions, and to carry them out in a way that allows all involved to maintain dignity.
• We speak candidly and listen openly.

Innovation:

• We are never satisfied with the status quo and know that we must continually reinvent our organization and ourselves.
• We break down silos and bureaucracies to serve our youth efficiently as one agency.
• We continuously drive operational excellence to innovate our programs, services, and processes.

Enthusiasm:

• We believe in the power of talented, committed individuals working as a team to make an extraordinary difference.
• We are positive, energetic, and committed to achieving our objectives and living our values.
• We celebrate our successes and learn from our failures.
• We keep our egos in check and maintain a sense of humor.