Vision Statement: The Stark County Family Council will endeavor to encourage and nurture the development of a unified service system that collaborates with families and pools resources to meet the individual needs of children and their families. This collaboration will strengthen and empower all participants to meet the physical, emotional, intellectual and social needs of families and children helping all build on their strengths. Driving Principles The Stark County Family Council shall: Empower families to identify their priorities, concerns and needs Ensure family-centered, culturally sensitive, individualized services and supports Develop programs that wraps services around the family's needs and work to provide whatever services are needed Ensure availability of service coordination using a non-categorical approach Affirm that the community part of the solution Reaffirm that everyone has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness Affirm that all families are partners in the defining of the issues as well as planning the solutions Meet the needs of families by utilizing the least restrictive community-based services and supports Develop community awareness of the various systems that provide services and supports to families Focus on prevention and the family's strengths, priorities and concerns Accept every family with a "no eject, no reject" services and supports policy