The mission of I Am Love is to increase public health and safety by helping communities create sustainable, population-wide change through comprehensive environmental systems change, knowledge transfer, and project planning and implementation. I Am Love’s mission focuses on systemic, communitywide transformation through the lens of environmental systems change policies. The agency implements a results-driven, systems approach designed to change community norms, conditions, and policies that impact the health and safety of populations.

I Am Love is firmly committed to ensuring that community-level work is guided by residents rather than a “top-down” approach where a funder makes decisions for a community. The goal of I Am Love is for residents to become empowered and gain capacities to change upstream issues, thereby improving their quality of life. Procedurally, this is achieved through an intentional and iterative transfer of knowledge between I Am Love coaches, organizational leads, and residents.

We work together with other organizations not to waste time and resources by re-creating the wheel and conducting evaluations to determine what is working and what is not. The problems that communities need to resolve are complex, requiring comprehensive solutions. Addressing issues like health promotion and chronic disease prevention requires the inclusion of people from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. Working in partnerships, collaborations, and coalitions can be challenging, but these can be powerful tools for mobilizing individuals to action, bringing community issues to prominence, and developing policies. In addition, these associations are an effective means of integrating health services with other human services so that resources are not wasted, and efforts are not needlessly duplicated.