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Another year has passed, and many have embarked on new endeavors. The EDI Committee wishes everyone a happy 2024 filled with success!
How do we define success? Each of us may answer this question differently. As individuals, some people may define success as having met all or most of their personal goals, and others by their wealth and status. On the other hand, some define success very differently - as the ability to live authentically, and according to their personal core values. As a human service organization that CFF is, success is more closely related to the latter of these.
A successful 2024 for CFF is promised as each of us who forms part of this great organization demonstrates our core values helping ensure we live up to our mission and vision. Our organizational core values of adaptability, authenticity, collaboration, compassion, inclusion, and integrity are a guiding light and reminders that keep our feet mission-aligned moving towards our vision of having a “diverse, healthy, and resilient communities where all children and families thrive.”
Over the past year, I have heard a saying that resonates with me and emits the practice of our six CFF core values, although the saying itself consists of only five words. The saying is “nothing about us, without us” and refers to the idea that those who best know a community and what it needs are the members of that community itself.
As CFF ambassadors throughout Delaware, we apply our core values by walking side by side with our clients – helping, supporting, guiding as needed and requested. We help our clients self-advocate by increasing education, awareness, and supportive services, and in 2024 we will invite our clients into a collaborative process of increasing civic engagement throughout Delaware, demonstrating nothing about them, without them.
In the spirit of our core values, we will be offering more opportunities in 2024 for Civic Engagement just as we did in 2023 when we introduced our Time Off for Voting Benefit. We want our individual and communal voice to be heard loud and clear and we do this through Civic Engagement.
In February, the EDI Committee will be hosting its first ever CFF Voter Registration Drive where staff and clients will be encouraged to register to vote, check on the status of their voter registration and their voting site. The goal is to help organize and encourage everyone to mobilize in 2024 and be the voice for our respective communities; the ones we are part of and the ones we support.
So….Stay tuned, stay engaged, be heard!
Written by: Edgard Martinez
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion Manager
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