SWAN’s Guiding Principles
and Values include:

• Remaining grassroots
• Staying in touch with the community and its people
• Promoting self-governance in all programs and activities
• Viewing the neighborhood in terms of its assets
• Encouraging civic-mindedness as well as individual responsibility
• Meeting the customer on his/her own terms
• Informing customer of next step
• Fostering interdependence or team approach to problem solving
• Supporting a primary prevention focus in youth/family programming
• Encouraging intergenerational relationships and learning