Thriving Communities
Imagine that your community is the most nurturing in the country. Your schools are places where all children love to be. Your children are thriving. Your political leaders cooperate in seeing to the needs of the community. Your businesses add value to the community beyond the provision of goods and services. Imagine that everyone in your community is treated with dignity, respect, and kindness and neighbors help and trust one and other. What could be accomplished if everyone came together in the name of values that nurture wellbeing?
Values to Action can help make these aspirations a reality. Values to Action will guide your community toward its full potential. The process begins by helping you bring the community together around a vision of the qualities you most want to have in your community.
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Decades of Experience: With years of hands-on work, we’ve helped communities succeed.
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Evidence-Based Strategies: Our approach is grounded in research and real-world results.
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Customized Support: We tailor programs to meet your community’s unique needs.
Expert Guidance for Lasting Community Impact
The Process
We will help you create Action Circles that engage the community in taking effective action to advance your shared vision. Action Circles are small groups of people who come together for a limited amount of time to work on specific goals. The first Action Circle engages in a listening process that gets a large and diverse segment of the community to promote your vision, to assess the wellbeing of community members, and to identify the problems people most want to address.
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We then help you create additional Action Circles that define immediate steps that can be taken to address your most important concerns. In the process, we assist you in finding common ground, not by arguing about the things people differ on, but by focusing on the aspirations you have in common.
Values to Action assists this process by drawing on a vast body of knowledge that behavioral science has accumulated in the past forty years. Our Founder, Anthony Biglan, PhD has summarized this knowledge in his book, The Nurture Effect, and it has inspired whole communities to use our assistance to make their communities more nurturing.
We can help you address problems as diverse as disparities in reading skill, the reform of juvenile justice, the provision of effective services for children with developmental disabilities, reducing conflict, and the prevention and treatment of all of the most common and costly psychological and behavioral problems that plague communities. In the end, your community will be healthier, happier, and more cohesive.