DeVanna Center News!
We have a new look, a new name, a new mission and a new logo!
During the Fall of 2009, the Board of Directors embarked on a new adventure. Executive Director Art DuBois encouraged the Board to undertake a Strategic Planning process. This process generated a new Strategic Plan with a number of key elements. The main focus is to emphasize what it is we really do and we feel strongly that our new name, mission and belief statement help us articulate just what that is:
Name
The Dianne DeVanna Center for Building Stronger Families
Mission
The Dianne DeVanna Center for Building Stronger Families helps families and enhances the lives of children by providing direct intensive assistance, information, and material resources when families are experiencing stress and hardship.
Belief
The Dianne DeVanna Center operates under a deep and abiding belief that children have a need for stability in their lives that includes love, nurturing, sense of security, and safety. Further, the Dianne DeVanna Center believes that most parents understand these needs and will do everything they can to meet them. However sometimes life gets complicated for many different reasons. The Dianne DeVanna Center knows that skillful help provided at the right time can make a profound difference in a child’s life.
What do these changes mean? It means that the Dianne DeVanna Center has realized for a long time that the best way to help children is to help families become stronger, more skilled, and less stressed. The kind of work that the Center has been doing for years has focused on enhancing the strength and capacities of families with the goal of promoting the stability of each family. These changes the Center is currently undergoing, prompted in part by feedback received during the Strategic Planning process, represent a progressive path forward with a healthy respect for all that we have accomplished so far.
