A Message from our President & CEO, Jeannine Gant - November 2021

Dear Friends,

"When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible." - Brene Brown.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the word “belonging”. In conversations with youth in our community over the past two weeks, it has been a recurring theme. Not inclusion, but the more personal state of belonging. For youth it seems to mean feeling connected, safe, heard, seen and accepted as their authentic