Mission, Vision, Values, and Ethics Statements

Vision Statement
In the next ten years, American’s Child Advocacy Agency will seek to promote a juvenile justice system that does not discriminate against the African-American youths by providing legal support to the youths and sensitizing the stakeholders in the juvenile judicial system on the need for objective consideration of issues, free from the prejudice of the underlying stereotypes against the African-Americans.
Mission Statement
To promote justice and equality for African-American Youths in the juvenile justice system by preventing unfair arrests, ensuring a fair trial for the youths in the system, competent legal representation, and holding campaigns to highlight the current inequalities against the African-America youths.
Values Statement
The operations of the organization will be guided and directed by the following core values:
Accountability; The agency will be answerable for its decisions and actions carried out by self or its authorized agents.
Responsibility; The agency will strive to make rational decisions in its attempt to reduce the disparities against the African-American youth in the juvenile justice system
Diversity and Inclusiveness: The agency will embrace differences, variety and multicultural composition in all people it reaches out to and involves to ensure that its members are enriched with varied expertise, experience and perspective.
Decisiveness; the agency will endeavor to make decisions that are firm and that can lead to conclusiveness of matters in references to the cases it follows up on.
Excellence; the agency was developed to improve the equality and reduce unfair racial disparities in the juvenile justice system
Ethical Statement
The organization will be committed to promoting and adhering to the highest ethical values in carrying out all its endeavors seeking to promote justice for African-American youths in the juvenile justice system. To achieve this, this agency is committed to:
Dignity and Respect
The organization will respect the rights and dignity of others. It will accord everyone courtesy and dignity irrespective of the position held.
Integrity
The organization will carry out its endeavors with integrity. The agency will maintain the confidentiality of information as expected, act in a way that inspires public confidence, make no move to acquire favor or undue gain, avoid undue influence and coercion, and identify any arising conflict of interest.
Accountability
The agency will be accountable in all its dealings to the community for ethical conduct and comply with the relevant laws and justice. All actions and activities undertaken will aim to achieve a positive social impact of reduction of the unfair disparity.
Responsibility
The agency will ensure that it offer quality services, attains results that leave a positive impact, be accountable, and see it satisfies its commitment to others. The agency will therefore take charge of utilizing the resources at its disposal to attain measurable results, as well as be answerable to the sponsors, partners and community.
Fairness
Act by the rules, be open-minded and actively be engaged with the stakeholders in the juvenile justice system. Owing to the sensitive of the issue it is seeks to promote, the agency will make decisions considering perspectives represented by different stakeholders in the promotion of equality in the juvenile justice system.
Trustworthiness
Be honest in all research work and presentation, and have the courage to confront the injustices. The agency will also be open and truthful in its engagement with different stakeholders, and exercise duty of care in all its endeavors.