Values

Circle C Affirms the Following Beliefs

Children are of great worth and value. All children, especially those who are troubled, have the right to experience caring, love and happiness.

Children are in the process of growing and maturing. Their environment has an especially forceful impact on their development. No environment is neutral; it either fosters growth or damages it. The best possible environment for growth and development for children is a healthy home experience.

Although the court system intervenes when necessary to remove a child from an unhealthy home, it is always as a last resort. Our first hope, then, is to reunite families whenever possible and not to further divide families.

Our early affiliation with the Young Life ministry established the basic principles which are inherent in our programming and daily involvement with children and families. Circle C seeks to create an atmosphere which is conducive to healthy growth and development. Our goal is to provide alternative community responses to institutionalization in order to encourage and support spiritual, physical and emotional wholeness of children and families.