Bridges to Wellness Coalition represents a mission to ensure high quality healthcare to the medically under served of the community, improve the health of the affluent, and embraces insights concerning “total health”. The concept of poor health is not reserved for the poor, uneducated, and unhealthy, but rather involves the maintenance of health for both the advantaged and disadvantaged of our communities. There is much to be gained on all sides of the “Bridge” when we embrace the best of everyone.

 

The saying goes that, "It takes a Village to raise a child", but the reality is that it takes a village to make a village that can raise a child WELL. It is the inclusion of every member of that village, not just the Chief and a few of his/her associates. We, in America have lost sight of some of the people that it takes to make a "Village" work. We have developed a culture that states there are some members of the "Village" that have no place and no purpose. Nothing could be further from the truth. When we exclude, we lose the contributions from some, that may be the one small link that completes the chain. There is much a home owner can learn from a person on the street that lost his house due to a change in the economy. There is much that same homeless person can learn from a business owner that made it through the depressed economy and was able to save his business and others their jobs. The Business owner can learn from the Welfare recipient about how to show love to their kids without material things. And the homeowner can teach the Welfare recipient how to care for whatever home they live in so they are prepared to care for a home they own one day. There is always someone with "Book Knowledge" that can enlighten someone with "Street Smarts", and vice versa. With the combination, the possibilities are endless.

 

Bridges to Wellness Coalition is founded upon, and dedicated to, the cause of creating a cohesive community spirit in the local area. After we have succeeded with our Mission locally, we plan to duplicate ourselves and these concepts to other areas of the County, State, Nation and the World. We are committed to the long haul. We, the founders, are fully aware the dream will likely outlive us. We are inspired by the many American and Foreign trailblazers that have gone before us with a similar dream and we hope to pass the baton to the next and subsequent generations. In the words of one of our most Patriotic songs, "America, America, God shed His Grace on Thee and crowned thy good with Brotherhood from Sea to shining Sea."   Let that also be our motto!