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Our Family-Centered: Seamless:
Discovering child and family
Coordinating and
needs and working with integrating our services to
families to best meet them. ensure that families receive
Principles Providing opportunities for the support they need
families to be meaningfully
regardless of point of entry
engaged in the design of to the agency. When our
services. Being committed to families face challenges
serving families of diverse outside our expertise, we
cultures and lifestyles in a
non-biased and non- partner with other highly-
judgmental way. qualified organizations.
Outcome-Driven: Advocates: Stewards:
Thoughtfully measuring the Taking a leadership role in Taking responsibility for
impact and effectiveness of our educating policymakers and growing and sustaining our
services. Engaging in ongoing the public on the needs of the human and financial capital.
learning and innovation to youngest and most vulnerable Demonstrating respect and
ensure we are offering effective children, even when it means cultural sensitivity for our
services to children and families. taking risks for the benefit of community, staff, and
Consistently identifying what we children. Board.
can improve, doing what we can
do best, and measuring
ourselves against national
benchmarks.
About Children's Friend
Children's Friend, a non-profit organization founded in 1834, is Rhode Island's oldest child-serving
organization, and a leading provider of child welfare, family support, mental health, and child development
services.
Mission: Our Strategic Priority:
Children's Friend is the Too many of the youngest and
innovative leader in improving most vulnerable children in Rhode
the well-being and healthy Island are experiencing devastating
development of Rhode Island's outcomes, including death as a Children's Friend is a member of the
most vulnerable young result of abuse and neglect. As Child Welfare League of America and
children. stewards of the resources is accredited by the Council on
entrusted to us, Children's Friend is Accreditation.
realigning itself to proactively
respond to the crisis.
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