ERCEGI seeks to advance youth and community resiliency through partnerships that promotes wellbeing and balance in the seven key areas of wellbeing by ensuring Resilient Factors exist in home, school/work, and community environments. Our efforts are guided not only by collected data and feedback from the community, but also by the following principles:

• The future of any community is only as good as the future citizens it nurtures.
• Addressing problems means addressing people through communication and education in which all aspects (economic, social, emotional, physical, intellectual, spiritual, and environmental) are considered.
• More comprehensive and systemic change results from programs that target prevention over intervention.
• Education (formal and informal) is the fundamental means for change.
• Enlisting all stakeholders is necessary for attainable and systemic change.
• Solutions must be arrived at by clearly identifying problem areas and root cause(s) and then carefully applying sustainable preventative programs that have been incubated and scaled.
• The success of a program must be measured not only by those it has helped but also by those it did not harm.

All that we do is in support of our primary objectives:

1. Promote healthy communities through grassroots mobilization--schools, nonprofits, faithbased, governmental agencies, and forprofit businesses;

2. Merge assets in pursuit of mutual goals to bring positive, sustainable change to a defined geographic area by identifying spatial inequalities and maximizing resources;

3.  Work to improve the schools within a defined geographic area by networking community assets and cultivating strategic partnerships; and

4.  Ensure holistic balance through seven key areas of wellbeing: Fiscal Management & Stability; Environmental Security & Responsibility; Social & Interpersonal Relations; Intellectual Growth; Mental Clarity; Introspective Reflective; and Physical Fitness

We are excited and honored to find ourselves in such a venture. We move forward with this charge to affect critical, positive change in North Florida and South Georgia communities as a beginning to a more promising future for us all.

The Board and Staff of ERCEGI, Inc.