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Minimizing Vulnerability & Maximizing Thriving in America and Beyond

    In America and in the world today, we are all vulnerable to a greater or lesser extent. Walking the streets and roads, you see it in our faces and hear it in our voices. The vulnerability specter hangs as well over our families and friends every day.
    We need to minimize vulnerability via policies and politics that systematically stop forces that push us down to more vulnerable states and support forces that lift us out of vulnerability.
    “Vulnerable in America (via) and Beyond” is a local, national and global strategy to minimize vulnerability. “Vulnerability” is what we are targeting to minimize. "Thriving" is what we are targeting to maximize. The “via” Strategy and Model, supported by viaFuture, is how we bring about the change. Our vision is one of thriving communities, America and world.
    We have the "next generation" knowledge and tools to pull this off. We know how to design and operate human systems that support individuals and achieve our vision. We have information and tools to take complex, cross-cutting programs and tailor them as an integrated solution for each person consistent with multiple policy goals. We better understand human behavior and its determinants.
      Vulnerable in America (via) and Beyond, as a strategic local, national and global approach, can and does reduce vulnerability if we have the wisdom and will. If we do and apply them successfully, we achieve the sustainable vision of minimizing our vulnerability and maximizing our thriving.

In the website's videos and images, the red flowing to green colors symbolize positive change and moving from vulnerable to thriving.

"via" Strategy and Model

To support minimizing vulnerability and maximizing thriving, the "via" Strategy and Model provide a strategic and operational framework. That framework helps identify the most vulnerable persons/populations. It helps develop and execute the most effective strategy and interventions for minimizing vulnerability and maximizing thriving. It also helps set a desired vulnerability/thriving status for communities, America and beyond.

"via" is a model of vulnerability and the interventions that positively and negatively impact vulnerability. The resulting operational strategy focuses on stopping negative interventions and supporting positive interventions related to vulnerability.
The "via" model and strategy are detailed under: "via" Model, "via" Strategy, Detailed Strategy

Related Efforts & Websites
viaFuture	Thriving Future	Building A Healthy America	GChris Sculpture
viaFuture.org	ThrivingFuture.org	BuildingAHealthyAmerica.org	GChris.com
"viaFuture" is a strategy to create and sustain large, positive change. It combines strong leadership and multi-generational involvement with next generation policy, program, information and management. We need a better future and a better vision for that future. We need a vision where all generations join together to fix our broken world and save our endangered future. We want to achieve positive, sustainable systems that help save what is broken and what is endangered and achieve a better future, a thriving world. To help make this happen, viaFuture draws upon lessons learned over the past 30+ years by Federal Executive and Legislative branches, local government, and private sector organizations to create more effective and integrated programs and policies and to successfully manage these programs and policies.	*Thrive!* is a great need coupled with a vision, mission and call for action. As a virtual endeavor, it strives to energize and empower a vast virtual endeavor of people together building a thriving future for our families, communnities, nations and world. It envisions, calls for and strives to achieve a thriving future. Its mission is to help create and sustain positive change to help build communities and a world that not only survive but thrive. The *Thrive!* strategy is to have people of all backgrounds and generations join together in this endeavor. It strives to motivate governments, private sector organizations and people to seek a thriving future and to work together to build that future. In support, viaFuture provides strategies, models and tools to determine where we are today and where we want to go in the future. To achieve that future, it helps design, manage and execute the strategies, policies and programs, and the collaborative and individual actions. viaFuture.org	Building A Healthy America (aka HealthePeople) and World is the vision of better health for all and a collaborative strategy to transform to affordable, person-centered, outcomes-driven, and "e" enabled health systems that help achieve better health. Succeeding with Building A Healthy America and World across all healthcare will positively transform health care and achieve healthier people and achieve healthier communities, America and world. To help make this happen, Building A Healthy America draws upon lessons learned over the past 30+ years by Federal Executive and Legislative branches, local government, and private sector organizations to create more effective programs and policies to improve health and to successfully manage these programs and policies.	GChris abstract sculptures are what is termed "progressive art" and are heavily mission-driven. Advanced by the art are core progressive values - reducing human vulnerability, maximizing human potential, saving our environment, and living at "peace on and with the earth." Progressive art is art with a purpose and artist as advocate. "Art as advocacy; advocacy as art." Existing GChris mobiles and stabiles may be purchased and number over 100 pieces with dimensions ranging from a few inches to 12 feet and larger. Works of all sizes, even larger works, can be commissioned.