Vision/Mission
Vision
Healthy, active children and families as the culture in Petersburg.
Mission
Joining together to improve children’s health through consistent access to fruits &
vegetables and understanding of healthy food.
Values
- Working with children, youth, and their family support system to reduce obesity and related chronic disease.
- Providing equal access to nutrition education and local, healthy, and affordable food to all people in Petersburg regardless of income.
- Treating everyone, including the HCAT team members, with courtesy, honesty, respect, and inclusiveness, assuring that everyone’s opinion is heard and valued.
- Staying on track, documenting our work, and letting our common mission guide our decision making.
- Listening to each other and to our community members, especially the youth we serve.
- Focusing on the whole child, including their environment, physical and emotional health, family, and unique interests.
- Sharing resources, being open-minded to creative solutions, finding common ground, and using successful practices from other communities to move our work forward and achieve sustainability.