Our Mission: Sacred Heart Center is where diverse people come together to create community and prove what is possible.
Our Strategies are to...
- Provide education programs that stress the acquisition of core skills necessary for leading a productive, healthy and self-sufficient life.
- Coordinate events and activities that encourage the building of positive relationships among the family and community.
- Provide outreach and support to improve the quality of life of our neighborhood residents.
- Encourage the development of self-discipline and positive interpersonal skills through support of athletics and other programs.
- Provide leadership and develop the skills necessary to promote positive change in the individual, family and community.
- Our core programming focuses on children, youth and teens as a catalyst for change.
- Collaborate in active partnership with friends from the Greater Richmond community.
Our Shared Values are...
We believe we can fulfill our mission and accomplish our strategies by daily living these shared values which are rooted in Catholic Social Teachings.
- Respect of Human Dignity - Every person is worthy of respect by virtue of being a human being.
- Respect for Human Life - Every person has an inherent dignity and a right to life consistent with the dignity that is ours as human beings.
- Principle of Association - We find diversity as a cause of liveliness rather than of division. We are our true selves when we relate well to others, not when we are isolated.
- Principle of Participation - People have a right, indeed a duty to participate in shaping a more just society. All people need to take an active role in the development of socio-economic, political and cultural life. They should be shapers of destiny, not just passive recipients of other people’s decisions or charity.
- Principal of Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable - In our community we put the needs of the poor and vulnerable first.
- Principle of Solidarity - We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. Solidarity is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say, to the good of all and of each individual, because we are each really responsible for all.
- Principle of Stewardship - We show respect for the Creator by our stewardship of creation. We have a responsibility to care for the world’s goods as stewards and trustees, not primarily, let alone merely, as consumers.
- Principle of Subsidiarity - The word subsidiarity comes from the Latin word subsidium which means help, aid or support. The principle of subsidiarity means clearly determining the right amount of help or support that is needed to accomplish a task or to meet an obligation: “not too much” (taking over and doing it for the other: thereby creating learned helplessness or over dependence) and “not too little” (standing back and watching people thrash about, thereby increasing frustration and perhaps hopelessness).
- Principle of Human Equality - Given that every human being is entitled to respect and dignity by virtue of being human, it follows that there is a radical equality among all human beings.
- Principle of Common Good - A community is genuinely healthy when all
people, not only one or several segments, but all people flourish.
