Mission Statement

The FHL Foundation is a theory-based, high engagement philanthropic organization dedicated to providing collaborative support in the areas of Attachment Education, Services, and Research, all with a focus on eliminating those barriers that impede adults, children, and animals in their attempts to form safe, secure, and nurturing attachments.

Mission Philosophy

The FHL Foundation recognizes that potential barriers to the formation of safe, secure, and nurturing attachments take many forms and often arise out of many varied and complex societal systems and structures. For instance, sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, as well as poverty, cultural disharmony and religious persecution all have the potential to create barriers to the formation of safe, secure, and nurturing attachments. The FHL Foundation encourages and supports non-profit organizations as they endeavor to conduct research, to educate, and to provide service in the areas of attachment and attachment behavioral systems. Research efforts will strive to uncover those societal systems and structures that have the potential to impede the formation of safe, secure, and nurturing attachments. Education efforts will strive to disseminate information about attachment and attachment behavioral systems in such a way that an awareness of attachment related issues will be increased. Service efforts will strive to provide a continuum of holistic care to adults, children, and animals, all with a focus on healing the wounds surrounding attachment.

The FHL Foundation endeavors to change the very fabric of Western society through the wholesale elimination of those societal systems and structures that have the potential to impede the formation of safe, secure, and nurturing attachments. Change will be towards a cultural enlightenment allowing for the integration of physical, emotional, cultural, and spiritual ways of being. People and animals will be able to live together peacefully without constant fear of violence and oppression.

The FHL Foundation will enter into collaborative partnerships with other qualified non-profit organizations who share the mission and vision of the Foundation, and who also meet the Foundation grant guidelines.

The FHL Foundation will serve as a backbone connecting all recipient organizations. In this way, individual recipient organizations will benefit from a flow of information throughout a network of organizations. The FHL Foundation does not encourage “working in a vacuum,” but rather encourages an integrative process of “cross-pollination.”

Many organizations dedicated to serving adults, children, and animals only treat symptoms while at the same time ignoring causes. In other words, many organizations attempt to help adults, children, and animals live more comfortably in a “sick system” while avoiding the question of why we have a sick system in the first place. The FHL Foundation asks the question Why are we living in a sick system that allows women to be battered, children to be exploited, animals to be harmed, and men to die from high levels of corporate stress?

Vision Statement

The vision of the FHL Foundation is to support adults, children and animals—through our grantmaking efforts—in their attempts to form safe, secure, and nurturing attachment relationships. It is our hope and desire that safe, secure, and nurturing attachments will allow for the creation of personal and community environments that will hold optimistic hopes for the future—hopes that will enhance human connections with each other, with animals, with nature, and with the whole of the universe.

Aim

The FHL Foundation will close its doors when women and children are not physically, emotionally, sexually, and spiritually abused; gay persons are not brutally killed because of their sexual orientation; minority groups are not oppressed; Native Americans are allowed to live in dignity; men feel free to be emotionally open; and animals are not dumped on the street to die. Simply stated, barriers to the formation of safe, secure, and nurturing attachment relationships will cease to exist.