MISSION
To ensure that individuals and families receive the help they need to have more meaningful, productive lives. The primary focus is helping individuals and families build their lives based on a knowledge of their own worthiness, strength and dignity.
VISION
We will:
- Be part of the effort to create excellence through the most productive interface between the public and private service offerings.
- Become increasingly adept at teamwork to identify goals, solve problems and achieve excellence.
- Continuously upgrade services that recognize no upper limit in programming quality.
Remain committed to community-based programming as the key to successful service delivery based on the mutually supportive relationship between the community and the program.
VALUES
We believe:
- In helping individuals and families acquire skills and other supports needed for successful community living.
- In treating individuals and families in a manner that confirms their dignity and self-respect.
- That collaboration and compassionate dialogue are the best ways to support individuals and families in their efforts to achieve their goals.
- That all people should be provided with a continuum of care based on individual needs.
The quality of the environment is maintained and improved through a continuous sensitivity to local concerns regarding physical, social and moral issues.
Who We Are:
In honor of Mr. Henry and Avarilla “Rilla” White from Levy County, Florida, The Henry & Rilla White Youth Foundation, Inc. was established in 1988.
Mr. White started out as a school teacher for Levy County and quickly advanced through the ranks in the Levy County School System. He would become a school board member and eventually the Superintendent of Levy County Schools. Mr. White devoted nearly 50 years of service to his community, where his leadership, along with his standards of performance, are carried on today.
Rilla was always known for being a sweet and caring person, where her kind heart was most noticed in her small grocery store, operated for many years in the town of Bronson, FL. During that time, many of the residents of Bronson were finding it difficult to make ends meet, and faced times when they did not have enough money for food. Rilla would bag groceries for them, regardless of whether or not they could pay.
Together Henry and Rilla White raised a total of five children. Their children were, no doubt, receivers of their parent’s compassionate hearts, and were taught the importance of service.
These values have continued through generations of the White family, and now through the Henry & Rilla White Youth Foundation.
