Our Mission: Through collaboration One Voice for Volusia mobilizes all sectors of the community by strengthening our organized capacity to meet human needs.

Our Vision: Our Community will provide opportunities for youth and families to be self-sufficient and productive contributors to society.

Our Methodology: One Voice for Volusia is using a research, planning and community mobilization framework designed by Drs. Hawkins and Catalano. This model, based on their risk and protective factor research, involves a process that includes:

• Convening for the purpose of educating and providing networking opportunities among health and human services

• Facilitating impartial and progressive methodologies to positively affect systemic change

• Monitoring community trends affecting quality of life issues

• Encouraging open dialogue about key community issues

• Advocating for the efficient and effective use of community resources

• Fostering diverse partnerships among all sectors of the community

• Mobilizing the community to support measurable outcomes and an effective evaluation of all health and human services programming

• Engaging leaders and citizens by developing and implementing community improvement strategies through priority-setting and consensus building

• Collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and sharing indicator data with the community

• Supporting other coalitions locally and throughout the state to further the field of work.