Our Mission
Family Connections promotes early care and education for all children by helping families find and pay for child care and helping child care providers meet their professional development goals.
Many principles guide our work in pursuit of our mission.
At Family Connections, we:
- Believe that effective services are based on competent, professional, personable, humane, and empathic relationships, responsive to the needs and concerns of coworkers, providers, children, families, and the communities we serve.
- Recognize the benefit to all society by respect for and nurturance of diversity.
- Must advocate on behalf of children, families, providers, and communities in local, state, and national arenas to establish necessary services, insist on qualities of best practices in those services, and secure the necessary funding for those services.
- Must serve as a referral service for children, families, and providers in accessing the broad array of existing services.
- Recognize the responsibility to and from our personnel to develop and maintain professionalism, competency, proactivity, service innovation, and the ongoing demands for continuing education and training.
- Recruit and retain Board membership reflective of the communities we serve who are devoted to our mission and guiding principles through competent governance in the areas of policy, fiscal management and compliance, personnel practices, and community service.
Our organizational values are:
- Care
- Family
- Integrity
- Responsibility
- Trust
- Confidentiality
- Loyalty
