Mrs. Callie Cole, Executive Director:

"I consider the agency to be successful when clients receive GED's, gain better employment and parenting skills, purchase homes for the first time, volunteers deliver hot meals to home bound senior citizens, Foster Grandparents work with special needs children, troubled youth take a new look on life, clients make plans on what they want to accomplish i.e. set goals and work to achieve them and clients become totally self sufficient."

Purpose

To serve as the legal entity whereby the community may organize itself, mobilize its resources and combat poverty and the the related problems of the poor, including employment, education, housing, nutrition, emergency services, income management, and economic development as a charitable organization.

Vision

A community system in which the dignity and intrinsic value of every person is acknowledged and their social, cultural, and economic diversity is recognizable through inclusiveness in all community affairs; a community that requires shared responsibility and problem solving, yet is responsive the the disadvantaged who may need assistance in overcoming barriers to equal opportunity; a community that is equitable, yet humane and supports the full development of its members.

Mission

To be a catalyst for growth and development for disadvantaged individuals and an instrument for change in the community. To be the best human service provider in the state- the standard by which others are measured.