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End 1: Vision
The Vision of Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services is Healthy Individuals and Families living in Supportive Communities.

In pursuing this vision, Many Rivers exists so that there will be:

• Healthy, positive, resilient individuals
• Healthy, positive, resilient family relationships
• Supportive communities

End 2: Healthy, Positive, Resilient Individuals
Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services promotes the development of healthy, positive and resilient individuals. This includes the development of self-esteem, self-awareness, and self-empowerment.

To this end, Many Rivers will:

• Promote the development of interpersonal skills and a support network;
• Model and thereby promote the experience and sharing of empathy;
• Guide individuals to accept personal responsibility;
• Assist individuals to manage their day-to-day life and to cope with traumatic or distressing life events and other life changes.

End 3: Healthy, Positive, Resilient Family Relationships
Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services works to strengthen healthy, positive and resilient family relationships. Family is defined inclusively to include any combination of people caring for each other who define themselves as a family.

To this end, Many Rivers will:

• Enable each member to be committed to healthy family relationships, including spousal, parent/ child, sibling, and all other family relationships;
• Strengthen problem-solving skills, with each member using effective strategies to deal with stress and having a win-win approach to conflict;
• Strengthen family communication, with each member being able to communicate their perspective and needs in a way that is respectful of other members, and to express anger safely and with compassion;
• Nurture respect for the opinions and feelings of each member;
• Encourage each member to respond to other members needs in a caring manner;
• Promote each member having age-appropriate empowerment and autonomy within the family;
• Encourage families to spend meaningful and enjoyable time together;
• Assist families and family members to cope with traumatic or distressing life events and other life changes.

End 4: Supportive Communities
Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services advocates for empowered and supportive communities by promoting and initiating collective action. We collaborate to establish policies and implement programs that contribute to the characteristics of communities which contribute to supportive communities.

These characteristics include:

• Support groups relevant to the needs of people in communities;
• Enhanced family-oriented human resources in communities;
• Employers having resources to improve workplace health;
• Fairness and justice with inclusion for all and freedom from isolation, discrimination and marginalization;
• Peace and safety with protection from harmful treatment including harassment, oppression and violence;
• Healthy work, education, recreation and home environments with services to promote wellbeing and reduce harm;
• Access for all to information, programs and resources to promote self-awareness, self-care and personal and family growth;
• Parenting supports and connections between families to promote the nurturing and stabilizing role of family and to foster belonging;
• Opportunities for full and varied social contribution of members to their communities.