Healthy Black Families Inc.
Healthy Black Families, Inc. is a local leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to advancing social equity for the Black community. We are known for our unshakeable advocacy for Black people and communities. Our focus is to ensure that (Black) people and communities are respected and have their basic needs met so each person has an opportunity to develop their full potential.
Healthy Black Families, Inc. holds a VISION to organize individuals, families and the organizations that serve them, into communities empowered with skills to advance social equity and justice, with a focus on Black individuals and families.
Healthy Black Families, Inc. holds a MISSION to provide people with knowledge, skills and strategies to make social systems and policies more equitable for Black people and communities.
Healthy Black Families, Inc. Core Values:
Human dignity – We are conscious of and actively support the basic right of every human being to have respect and to have their basic needs met.
Health/Healing – We promote the wisdom of mind and body soundness that flows from meeting spiritual, emotional and physical needs through self-awareness and preventive discipline. This includes an understanding that knowledge of self allows for maintenance of internal balance that promotes positive feelings.
Community - We foster depth and commitment as we engage people individually and in groups so that both independent creativity and interdependent cooperation are maximized.
Expressiveness/Joy – We create spaces that allow people and communities to express self openly, cooperatively in ways that and stimulate thoughts and imaginations. Through these spaces, we encourage open expression of ideas and opinions to bring conflicts into the open and resolve disagreements collaboratively.
Efficiency/Planning – We think about and design systems, acts and purposes in an efficient manner before implementing them.
Accountability/Ethics – We make values and beliefs explicit as a basis for honest and ethical behavior. We encourage others to be aware of their values as well as the alignment (or misalignment) between community values and organizational policies.
Corporation/Stewardship - We initiate and manage the organization to accomplish its goals and mission in alignment with its defined values.