Founders   History   What is a Glories hat?   Statement of Need   Milestones   GHH in News Read FAQ's		Our Vision Our Community is shaped by inclusiveness where youth of different origins and different socio-economic backgrounds partner to help hospitalized children, while maximizing their individual and collective capacity to think skillfully and critically. Our Vision is one promoting positive youth development and community youth empowerment - creating an environment where youth become agents of positive, environmentally sustainable change as they mitigate and overcome the social, cultural and economic barriers to a healthy, sustainable and inclusive future for us all and do so in honor, hope and compassion for all the hospitalized children impacted by our current and past actions. Our Core Values are Inclusiveness, Respect, Dignity, Honesty, Kindness, Encouragement, Compassion, Hope, and Integrity. In the societal community highly motivated youth look to increase their knowledge, understanding, and place in today's complicated and often violent world, however high-quality service and leadership opportunities that celebrate, respect and value youth civic engagement are neither readily accessible nor available to certain underserved youth populations on a consistent, inclusive and regular basis. In the healthcare community highly advanced children's hospitals understand the importance of a child's psychological outlook and the impact it has on health outcomes. These hospitals are actively looking to improve the quality of their patient experience through in-house activities aimed at creating a child-friendly atmosphere for their patients.  Although clinical studies show peer-support as having the greatest impact on improving the outlook of hospitalized children, bringing friends and classmates into the hospital to visit their sick friends is highly restricted. In the GHH community, GHH offers and engages highly motivated youth in consistent, inclusive and regularly scheduled service activities producing a highly valued product Glories hat that is made available to hospitals on an on-going basis. As hospitals, doctors, and medical staff communicate their appreciation for this effort back to youth, youth become aware of their valued role and importance in the health and success of their community. The goal of supplying every regionally hospitalized child with a Glories hat directs youth awareness towards children's health issues and makes the connection to how the environment can impact our health.  Through teamwork and systematic production methods, youth are encouraged to further communicate their awareness by mentoring prevention ideals throughout their community as well as in practice themselves. GHH has delineated five core strategies in working towards accomplishing its vision. These strategies are: 1.Increasing Community Service Opportunities for all youth: Increasing access to serve with on-site, regular and accessible service activities linked to the greater community through business mentoring and e-health initiatives is key to meeting youths desire to connect and offer their talents to help. 2.Stimulate Positive Reciprocal Connections between youth and greater community: When youth want to help, the community responds. Regularly scheduled workshops allow local businesses to schedule voluntary employee leave in order to participate in the workshops. This increases role models and mentoring opportunities for youth, increasing connectedness, awareness, and resources to strengthen youth programs. 3.Encouraging Civic Engagement: Consistent participation encourages youth to earn hours towards their President's Volunteer and Congressional Service Awards. Regular service at a young age builds individual and collective traditions of service and an engaged citizenry. 4.Preparing youth for success through transferable skills and resume enhancement: GHH workshop learning modules build Communication, Interpersonal, Decision Making, and Lifelong Learning Skills in the framework of today's employability standards utilizing "hands-on" systems that require responsibility, integrity, problem-solving, self-management and quality assurance. Voluntary public service, coupled with Civic Awards, and "hands-on" project management experience showcase functional literacy, leadership and capacity. 5.Improving the hospital experience for children: Supplies a mechanism to communicate peer and community support into the patient, allows patients to understand that they are helping the community to collectively take responsibility for children's health, aids in patients feelings of individuality, increases patient visibility and provider/patient communication.