Vision

To ensure every child in Tioga County is known and cared for by an adult in their community

Mission

We ensure every child has access to opportunities to participate in purposeful recreation with adults who are committed to knowing them and helping them grow through intentional engagement and relationship building, understanding that a child’s wellbeing is more than safety, but includes the human need to be seen, heard, understood and cared for by their community.

Values

-Our community's kids are our kids and our responsibility

-Our community's problems are our problems

-Children's feelings and needs are as complex and important as adults

-Delighting in a child is a pre-requisite to getting to know them

-Play gives children the opportunity to discover their unedited self

-Darkness is not beaten back in some epic cause but in the ordinary actions of kindness and shared humanity

-Kindness leads to effectiveness

-The power of being seen and known cultivates courage and resiliency

-Caring grown-ups change the world

-Safe environments for children cannot be created without self-awareness

-Compromising a person's dignity tears down our own

-Vulnerability cannot be separated from good leadership

-Understanding trumps judgement

-Every child, no matter their behavior, is our privilege, not our problem

-Families do the best they can with what they have

-Every person is capable of change despite any odds

-Support and access to resources builds pathways to success

-All people have goodness in them worth discovering

-Children are entitled to experiencing childhood