Values

Love for Our Community

  • STOP is an organization that shows love for the community. We are compassionate and caring. 

  • We are a supportive family that works as a team to motivate and inspire each other — loving each other as chosen family, being honest, and building trust together.

​Empowering Bold Leadership

  • We are committed to developing an intergenerational base of bold leaders. 

  • We are determined to develop our leaders so that we are strategic and sustainable. 

  • We begin with our community, the most directly impacted, and we meet them where they are.

  • We learn from our mistakes and victories and invest our time to becoming strategic thinkers.

  • We never give up because we are confident in our power: People Power.

Accountability

  • We tell the truth and are transparent so that we can learn from our mistakes and not repeat them. 

  • We work on our integrity continually and hold each other and ourselves and decision-makers accountable.

Social Justice

  • We are committed to the revolutionary ideas and struggle for social, racial, and economic justice.

  • Our commitment to standing against oppression (including capitalism, racism, and heteropatriarchy) requires us to be inclusive and to stand in solidarity with a range of people and ideas. 

  • We believe in compassion, cooperation and creating a space safe from isms like transphobia, ableism, ageism, religious intolerance, classism, homophobia, misogyny, racism, etc. and a safe space for practices strengthening the mind, body, spirit, and community. 

Dedication

  • We are determined and we always go the distance. 

  • We are committed and never give up. 

  • We are self-reliant, sustainable and confident in our powers. 

  • We are in this fight for the long haul.


Proposed by a Values Committee on June 12, 2018.
Approved by STOP’s Board on September 26, 2019.
Ratified by program organizations on November 3, 2018.