Mission:
Help Me Grow of Cuyahoga County ensures infants and toddlers grow, learn, and develop to their fullest potential.
Vision:
All families provide nurturing environments to meet the developmental needs of their young children.
Guiding Principles:
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Supporting families: Children grow best in families. By supporting families in nurturing their children, Help Me Grow can help to ensure that parents, other relatives, and caregivers have the skills and resources to raise healthy and well-adapted children. |
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Promoting prevention: Providing help to children and families to prevent problems before they occur is a sound social and fiscal policy. Programs and practices that nurture and protect children in their earliest development, that prevent abuse and neglect, and that detect and intervene at the earliest possible indication of risk should be available to all families. |
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Advancing social justice: All children, regardless of gender, ability, economic status, and ethnic, racial, spiritual, and cultural background, have an equal right to have their universal needs met. Help Me Grow can advocate for the ideals and values of social justice. |
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Working collaboratively: When people come together, collective capacities emerge that individual partners do not possess. Help Me Grow can harness this synergy to solve shared problems and work toward the common good. |
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Respecting and valuing diversity: Diverse cultures, traditions, and perspectives are sources of strength and creativity that Help Me Grow can draw upon to nurture healthy families and children. |
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Building capacity: By recognizing and nurturing the assets and strengths of families and communities, we tap into sources of energy and creativity that have the greatest potential for meeting children’s needs and encouraging their optimal growth. Consciously developing individual, group, and community capacity strengthens everyone. |
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Nurturing leadership: Leadership requires dedication, passion, and a willingness to take risks. It cannot be conferred simply by election or appointment to a position of authority, but rather comes from those willing and able to inspire and guide others to get things done in behalf of families and children. |
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Using evidence-based strategies: Connecting evidenced-based research to practice helps Help Me Grow design and implement policies, practices, and programs that are effective in helping children to thrive. |
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Measuring results: Using clear outcome measures to guide and evaluate our efforts increases the likelihood that our work will result in positive results for children and families. |
Help Me Grow of Cuyahoga County is a partner of Invest in Children, a public-private partnership to mobilize resources and energy to ensure the well-being of all young children in Cuyahoga County. For more information, go to:
http://investinchildren.cuyahogacounty.us/