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Mission and Purpose of Organization The Salem Community Center is a private not for profit organization dedicated to the improvement of the quality of life within our community. This continuous process will be enhanced by striving towards the following goals: To encourage a sense of community by facilitating partnerships with local health, service, and educational institutions and organizations. To promote the principles of acceptance, understanding, fellowship and respect for all people within our community. To provide recreational activities to promote personal wellness. To be responsive to our membership by addressing emerging and changing community needs and removing economic barriers within available resources. To continue the cycle of giving through service and resources to our community. In our twenty years of existence, we have been proactive in answering the requests and needs of the community. Keeping the Salem Community Center up to date with equipment, programming, and education continues to be our priority for the community. In doing so, we must continue to keep membership and activity pricing to a minimum, trying to absorb the rising economic cost going up all around us. We are committed to serving the needs of all ages, genders, ethnic origins, economic incomes and disabilities of all members. Built with money from the McKeown Fund and minds from local community members and businesses, the Salem Community Center exists today representing what is special to all of our families and us. In continuing the tradition of meeting the needs of our membership, as well as the community, the Salem Community Center represents a place where families can spend time together and those without family can make new relationships that will last a lifetime. Program, purpose and implementation Our programs focus on Community Wellness Through Education and run throughout the year focusing on the wellness dimensions of, physical, emotional, mental, social, environmental, and occupational health. These dimensions of wellness encompass how people live on a daily basis. The purpose of the program is to educate community members of all ages (from children to our active aging population) on the importance of taking care of themselves and their families. Through this education, participants can create an enhanced quality of life, reduce risk factors for disease and achieve total sense well-being can create an enhanced quality of life, reduce risk factors for disease and achieve total sense well-being.