Caring Adults:

Every child and youth needs and deserves support and guidance from caring adults in their families, schools and communities, including ongoing, secure relationships with parents and other family adults, as well as multiple and consistent formal and informal positive relationships with teachers, mentors, coaches, youth volunteers and neighbors.

Safe Places and Constructive Use of Time:

Every child and youth needs and deserves to be physically and emotionally safe everywhere they are - from the actual places of families, schools, neighborhoods and communities to the virtual places of media - and to have an appropriate balance of structured, supervised activities and unstructured, unscheduled time.

A Healthy Start and Future:

Every child and youth needs and deserves healthy bodies and minds that are the result of healthy habits and choices. Routine health care and treatment, good nutrition, exercise, and positive role models help create a comprehensive knowledge of skills in this area.

Effective Education for Marketable Skills and Learning:

Every child and youth needs and deserves the intellectual development, motivation, and personal, social-emotional and cultural skills needed for having quality learning environments, challenging expectations, and consistent formal and informal guidance and mentoring.

Opportunities to Make a Difference Through Helping Others:

Every child and youth needs and deserves the chance to make a difference - in their families, schools, communities, nations and world - through having models of caring behavior, awareness of the needs of others, a sense of personal responsibility to contribute to larger society, and opportunities for volunteering, leadership and service.