Building Accountability

At Hopeworks, we see our relationship with the youth as a partnership.  In this partnership, we are willing to help youth:

The youth must then be willing to:

Both Hopeworks and the youth have their responsibilities.  The question then becomes “How do we build accountability for these responsibilities?”  Formation constantly reinforces this idea of a partnership with equal responsibilities that necessitates accountability.  We make sure that the youth know that our staff, partners, donors and clients have committed to Hopeworks by supporing it and helping it grow.  Therefore, we ask the youth to do the same.  We relate every rule and policy of Hopeworks back to this partnership so that each rule and policy has a purpose, defined by a responsibility and supported by the accountability of the Hopeworks community.  We ask the youth, then, to do the same.  By using this approach to disciplinary or compliance issues, we form a willingness within the individual youth to step up and engage fully in all that there is at Hopeworks.