Community programs and most agencies are created to provide a particular service to a specific group of people. These organizations and programs are essential, but can only reach those children and youth enrolled in them.

Action for Children's work is different.  Action for Children works to alter the way communities and systems operate and do business to, in turn, impact all children and families, whether they are enrolled in a program or receiving services from an agency or not.  Think about it this way.  Who is creating the "community culture" in which our children are growing?  Media?  Business?  Medicine?  Schools?  Others?  The answer is all of us, collectively, create that culture whether we realize it or not.  For that reason, we must all be involved in creating the best communities, services, opportunities and success factors possible for each child.