Develop strategies to create awareness, motivation, and action regarding accessible, effective, and integrated comprehensive health approaches that are inviting and will enhance learning and the quality of life for Missouri's children, their families, and the community as a whole. The community takes ownership and responsibility for the health and development of its children. Children are healthy, happy, and safe, with a zest for life and the future. They are valued and respected for their unique strengths, talents, and capabilities. All human service providers collaborate to create a nurturing, flexible, proactive system that responds to the physical, mental, emotional, social, and economic needs of modern families and a changing society.
Society subscribes to the philosophy that it takes a whole village to raise a child.
Teachers are attuned to the needs of the whole child, and they know how to connect children to community resources. Children experience daily instruction relating to their physical, mental, emotional, and social health. Children become aware that they are responsible for their own healthy state of being. Parents and consumers are the primary decision makers in the system, which supports the family and child from prebirth through adulthood. Identified needs drive the funding for ready access to coordinated and comprehensive medical, mental, and dental services, which are preventative, therapeutic, and rehabilitative.