Northwest Missouri Regional

Culture of Character

"Character Education is not another thing to add to the plate... it is the plate!"

  The Northwest Missouri Regional

Culture of Character Project

  The NW Missouri Regional Culture of Character Project is a public/private collaboration  

  which was identified as a regional need. In response to the workforce concerns

  expressed from area plant managers the ”education of the workforce” subcommittee of  

  the Fall 2004 Heartland Foundation Regional Planning Forum identified the need to

  develop a regional emphasis on the character of the current and future workforce.

  The NW MO Regional Culture of Character Project was generated as a comprehensive  

  strategy to encourage a resilient character ethic in the minds and hearts of the current

  and future generations who will makeup the region’s workforce.  The primary goals of this

  initiative are:

·    To create a culture at school, in the workplace, in the community, and in the home, where character building is the norm and not the exception

·    To purposely create a diversified learning-space for conversations to take place between the student, teacher, child, parent, employer and employee

  This regional Culture of Character (COC) project was initially directed to include the

  counties of Nodaway, Worth, and Atchison in NW Missouri.  It is the vision of COC to 

  expand the number of counties involved each year.

  Area industries have committed to being involved in this venue and it is the vision of the

  steering committee that in the future all businesses of the three counties will be

  involved.  Each school district’s, business’, industry’s, family’s, and community’s

  involvement is paramount to the success of making a culture of character a regional 

  priority. 

  Please join us as we work to make this bold vision a reality for the future of Northwest  

  Missouri.

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