Our Mission

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

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

Our Core Values

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.