To empower vulnerable community through culturally responsive programs and promoting equity and creating lasting well-being.

The Social Development Program sees its major functions as being to:

• Develop social policies, strategies, action plans, facilities, and services to increase social equity and wellbeing in their community.

• Bring together community members and partners to build relationships and create opportunities for positive social change.

• Listen to concerns and ideas emerging from the community.

• Promote awareness of the issues that impact our community.

• Identify, support, and build on our existing social assets, community capacity, and partnerships.

• Research issues, seek and disperse resources, develop tools, and generate knowledge and information on social needs and issues as well as approaches to addressing these needs and issues.

• Enable community members to use research and information to improve the quality of community life; and