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Mission Statement
Mission Statement: The Community House Network is committed to co-creating a healthy community in which members are living happy, meaningful lives. We believe this requires positive social connections, heart-centered relationships, and the opportunities to direct one’s own life towards purposeful engagement with the world. Our programming is focused on creating opportunities for personal development, self-empowerment, and social activities for the youth and adults in our community. Vision Statement: We belong to a community where people are kind, caring and helpful. We stand together as a community of empowered individuals able to direct our own lives. We co-create a world of engaged citizens.
About This Cause
The Community House Network has multiple cooperative programs all designed to support the emergence of healthy community. These include several youth programs: an arts based afterschool program, the Kindness Ambassadors, a summer creative arts program, The Art Garage, and a program designed to give teenage youth skills in the trades, The First Apprentice. Adult programming is focused on helping each individual become the best version of themselves, be able to direct their own lives, and to build relationships within healthy community. These programs include, a recovery house for women, The Chrysalis House, open 12 step meetings, Women Encouraging Women, courses in personal development and leadership, training in the trades in the Shop-Co-Op and more. Community Spaces. The Community House Network currently consists of four spaces: The Community House, Community Garden, Shop Co-Op, the Art Garage, and The Chrysalis House. The spaces themselves are meant to be collaborative, or shared. Community members are encouraged to use the spaces in ways that fit with the vision and mission of the Community House Network. The only private space is the Chrysalis House women's sober living, but it also is directed by the women who reside there. Located in an at risk neighborhood in Peoria, IL, The Community House serves to create a safe space for at risk youths, and adults. It provides the structures to build greater skills, opportunities, and joyful shared experiences with the arts, music and trades. The local area in which the Community House resides struggles with issues of drugs, gang violence, and poverty. Children in the area are most at risk for drop-out, juvenile detention and drug abuse. Our programming is dedicated to showing these youth greater opportunities. We believe each member of the community is part of our family. Each member is treated with respect while being encouraged to find their inner gifts and share them with the world. The approach of The Community House Network involves direct community engagement, emergent growth of ideas, personal self-direction, and emotional well-being. The Community House Network is committed to creating opportunities for its members to become empowered to direct their own lives. As such that means its members will deepen their understanding of who they are and find where they are able to share their gifts in the world. These opportunities are provided to the youth and adult populations of the community. The Community House Network is committed to building healthy relationships and enhancing the emotional well-being in the lives of those in our community. We believe that this comes from developing social skills, personal character and focusing on virtues rather than individual’s defects of character. Programming at the CHN is embedded in existing models of self-direction, self-determination, and emotional health. These tenets are central to all aspects of the programming. Self-Determination Theory The goals of the CHN include personal empowerment through building of self-awareness, connection to others and intrinsic motivation. The CHN utilizes Self-Determination Theory, based on the work of Deci and Ryan, in order to support these goals. Self-Determination Theory has more than a 30-year history of development and is based on the concepts of Autonomy, Relatedness and Competence. Strengths Based Approach The move away from deficit thinking into the strengths-based approach to psychological well-being and mental health is now prevalent in social work, business, and education. Organizational scholarship supports the shift of our lens from what is not working (deficits) towards those things and places where things are working (strengths) as a means of expanding effective programs and behaviors within an existing cultural milieu. The strengths-based approach is particularly of value in social-cultural issues due to the complexity of these group phenomenon. We employ this approach in the Community House programs by teaching community members, individuals in recovery, mentors and parents how to find and recognize the strengths in the children and themselves. Positive Psychology The foundation of positive psychology comes from the study of the healthy human being, rather than the mentally ill human. In their groundbreaking effort, Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman (2004) created an intensive study of the nature of virtuous behaviors and value systems across various cultures. What they discovered was that virtues have nuances regarding culture, but fall within six core domains. The Core Domains of Virtues 1. Wisdom and Knowledge: creativity, curiosity, open-mindedness, love of learning, perspective, innovation 2. Courage: bravery, persistence, integrity, vitality, zest 3. Humanity: love, kindness, social intelligence 4. Justice: citizenship, fairness, leadership 5. Temperance: forgiveness and mercy, humility, prudence, self-control 6. Transcendence: appreciation of beauty and excellence, gratitude, hope, humor, spirituality The Community House Network’s programming approaches the issue of building healthy relationships with the same lens. Each month, we follow one of the themes, and integrate these into the content of the curriculum.