The “via” model starts out arraying overall vulnerability status from highly vulnerable to highly thriving. 

On the right side, a vStatus chart is depicted that represents vStatus, using both vulnerability and thriving indicators, for Americans overall or for populations or for individual persons. 

The model recognizes that there are interventions that increase and reduce vulnerability and increase thriving. 

• Do interventions that move people up from vulnerability.

• Do interventions that prevent more vulnerability.

• Do interventions that achieve highest thriving.

 It lays out the overall key strategic areas – stop those interventions/actions that increase vulnerability and support those interventions/actions that reduce vulnerability and increase thriving. 

Key to long term success is to execute a strategy – a self-perpetuating “system” of actions that continuously stops actions that push people down to more vulnerable states and supports actions that lift people out of vulnerability and increase thriving.  This “system” of actions would perpetually prevent increased vulnerability and support moving people up out of vulnerability.