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Vision

The vision of the Johnston Alliance For Character Development is for Johnston to be a community where all members personally value and model the principles of trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.

Mission

The mission of the Johnston Alliance For Character Development is to provide leadership and coordination to teach, evaluate, advocate, and model character development throughout the community of Johnston.

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History

December 9, 2005    First meeting of planning committee (Barb Savage –Partnership for Health Community; Francine Canfield-Partnership & Library; Willona Goers, CE Resource Council; Nancy Betz, CE Resource Council)

Joining the committee were Jim Sanders, City of Johnston administrator and Paul Jacobson, Johnston Chamber of Commerce.

The above committee met with a representative from the Urbandale community committee for character; Scott Raecker from Inst. For Character Development; students from MS and HS; and Dean Summa from Regency Homes to learn more about what was happening in specific areas such as schools, business, etc.

The goal of the planning committee was to:

1. Host a luncheon for invited community leaders that include larger companies, local business, youth sport associations, civic organizations, ministerial, school, city, and other pertinent community members.  Approximately 40 will be invited.  This luncheon will feature individuals from various aspects of character development to talk with the guests through a roundtable format so they can learn what can happen in various community settings.
2. From this luncheon, guests will be “called to action” and asked to commit to attending a training, supporting this initiative in various formats, or get their organization/business involved as a group.
3. Training on character development and Character Counts will be held for those interested from the luncheon guests.
4. The final goal of the planning committee is then to have 12-20 people agree to serve on a community character committee that will work to infuse character education and other projects/services/awareness throughout various aspects of our community and to grow the initiative community-wide.

November 29, 2005    Kick-off event was a luncheon at Pioneer-Carver Center.  43 attended.

March 3 and 8, 2006    Two, one-day trainings held with 41 people attending.

26 people agreed to serve on the committee to move the character initiative forward.  Those people decided to call the group the Johnston Alliance for Character Development

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