What does family hateful to you?

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Family is 1 of Be Strong Families core values, beginning with respect for and appreciation of others no matter how old, how young, where they come from, what they've experienced, where they are, how capable they are, how healthy they are, who they honey. Information technology extends to individual's choices of who they call family unit – what intentional, meaningful relationships they class. Our value of family extends to community and to sisterhood and brotherhood . Although we are united by this value, family means something different to each of us. Hear from our Board of Directors what family means to them:

"My family is and has been supportive in helping me raise my children. They represent the foundation of who I have become in life. It was my aunt and uncle who drove me around looking at colleges every bit a high school student and encouraging me for higher education. My grandparents financed my college education. My family unit has always been there for me, in skillful times and non and so good times. If it wasn't for my mother, I am not sure where I would be today. Since I got divorced 12 years agone, my mother has helped me financially to stay in my home and run into the needs of my growing kids."

- Nina Aliprandi (Board Chair), Manager of Programme Services, Maryville Academy

"Family for me represents the foundation of self, and a unity of acceptance, unconditional sacrifices, joy, support and love that is built on a continuum of resilience, and journeying in humility from the past, current and time to come generations."

- Sandy Baba, Ph.D., Educational activity Researcher

"I feel family goes across bloodlines, last names or obligations. To me, the word 'family' includes all the people in our lives who commit to beloved and support us unconditionally. It is not a passive birthright merely a choice, a subject field of kindness that helps us thrive both as individuals and as a club."

- Fernando Barcelona, President / Creative Director, Barcelona and Friends

"Holding on as one

Roots rich with stories of life

Ancestrally linked"

- Denise Boston, Ph.D., Dean of Diversity & Inclusion, California Establish of Integral Studies

"Family unit, broadly and inclusively defined, is the foundation for individual and community health, well-existence and prosperity.  Let's join together to strengthen families, nurture positive relationships, and promote resilience and promise."

- Anne Douglass, Ph.D., Founding Executive Director, Establish for Early Educational activity Leadership and Innovation and Associate Professor, Academy of Massachusetts

 "For me family is then much more than than only the people I am related to, my family unit also consists of a supportive and caring group of friends who I can laugh and cry with. Without the strength of community, I feel that I would non have equally much hope to be the parent and person that I strive to exist."

- Kassia Eide (Board Secretarial assistant), SPARK Family Engagement Coordinator, Play tricks Valley United Manner

"I await at family equally those who care almost you the most and desire to come across you grow and flourish. Helpfulness, respect, wellness, integrity and cooperation are my core values; my family understands my values and I understand their values. Through understanding of each other's values, we arrive at a mutual respect and support. People with open up hearts and a willingness to accept y'all for the human that you are. Even when things go wrong and crunch faces you, you lot can always depend on family. Family unit brings y'all back to your values and helps you brand good decisions."

- Kenneth Krantz, CFP® APMA®, Financial Advisor, Grezlik, Krantz, and Assembly Ameriprise Financial

 "To me a family is whoever I can depend on for support, to laugh with, to play with, and to share the challenges and rewards of life with."

- Beth Lakier, Primary Operating Officer, Chicago Commons

"Family ways having someone to love you unconditionally in spite of you and your shortcomings. Family is loving and supporting i some other even when information technology's non easy to do so. Information technology's existence the best person yous could be so that you may inspire your dear ones. Family unit doesn't see colour, race, creed not culture it sees center. Family isn't ever about beingness connected biologically, because understands that other things and influences bind us. Family is unrelenting, it's secure and reliable. Family isn't simply important, information technology's what is most important!"

- Marvin Lazenbury, MHS, Associated Manager of Housing, Bucks & Montgomery County Valley Youth Business firm

 "I used to tell this to my kids when they were younger, 'Our family is similar Noah'due south ark. The exterior earth may sometimes feel chaotic or harsh or overwhelming, like a flood. In our family, we want to create an ark for each other — where we're safe and protected and feel a sense of belonging, loved, cared virtually, taken care of and protected.' They got it and that'south the world our family is."

- Naomi Mark, LCSW, Manager of Educational Programs for the Office of Workforce Development at NYC's Department of Social Services

 "My love for my family, my desire for them to be proud of me and my decisions, is my life's compass. I promise to advance the organization'southward mission through my time and judgment. I consider serving on this board as something of a civic duty, in addition to a challenging and enjoyable experience."

- Scott Reinglass, JD (Board Treasurer), Banana Managing Chaser, Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

 "Family always feels nearby. The closeness is never determined by altitude or time. Frequent gatherings develop into mutual support. And occasional visits enrich lives with gratitude. Family is condolement; it is domicile. What is most important: I refuse to limit family unit to a group or place. I am passionate about strengthen all communities. I believe, the foundation is respect and commitment and creating cherished moments."

- Antoinette Rice-White, Community Parent Leader, Foster Parent, and Child Intendance Provider

 "Edifice potent families is a cocky-preservation strategy for any rational and sane society. An aware gild is one which supports all of its members in reaching their full potential as homo beings. I believe we can go true architects of our destinies rather than mere captives of our fate, of our past. This liberating model allows for true freedom as each segment of society takes responsibility for itself and for our extended man family unit. It is a strengths-based and wellness model which leads to evolutionary growth, resilience, and evolution towards the higher reaches of human nature. Information technology is a vision of hope, based on the most powerful force in all of nature: love."

- Carl Totton, Psy.D., Professor of Psychology, Phillips Graduate Academy

 "We are family unit."

- Katthe Wolf, MA (President), Founding Partner, and CEO of Be Strong Families

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