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Learn about our JOYrific products.

  • The Magnetic JOYrific Chart is our favorite! It attaches to most flat metal surfaces

    • Repositionable, removable and reusable

    • Excellent magnetic strength makes it ideal for kids

    • Can also be used as a eating placemat during snack or meal time.  

  • This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

  • Show your JOYrific spirit with our range of apparel and accessories. From cozy t-shirts to awesome blankets, each item is designed to spread joy and positivity.

Take a minute to read about our Standards, Servant Leadership Values, Core Beliefs, and Life Skills.

Essential

Standards

“A healthy workforce is the foundation for thriving organizations and healthier communities,” said Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) 2022).

We will follow the five essentials standards to create a home that is safe:

Protection from Harm.

Create conditions for physical and psychological safety to ensure mental health and well-being, enable adequate rest, normalize and support mental health, and operationalize diversity equity, including accessibility norms, policies, and programs.

Connection and Community.

Foster positive social interactions, teamwork, and trust to create cultures of inclusion, collaboration, and belonging.

Home-Life Harmony.

Respect boundaries between home and non-home time, provide autonomy and make schedules as flexible and predictable as possible.

Mattering at Home.

Provide a safe place, engage everyone in family decisions, build a culture of gratitude, collaboration, and recognition, and connect individual work with organizational mission.

Opportunities for Growth.

Create opportunities for family members to accomplish goals by providing quality training, education, and mentoring. Foster clear, equitable pathways for growth advancement and ensure relevant reciprocal feedback.

Maintain Respect and Confidentiality.

Develop trust, respect, and support for systems, processes, children, parents, friends, family community areas and personal belongings.

Servant Leadership

Values 

Leadership is an opportunity to serve others.

Our community will follow these five servant leadership values (Focht and Ponton):

Value people for who they are, not just for what they do.

Humility puts others first, knowing things are accomplished together as a team.

Listen receptively and nonjudgmentally, seeking first to understand and then to be understood.

Trust by willingly taking risks to build the team through authenticity, dependability, and creativity.

Serve by genuinely caring for the people you lead and serve. Display kindness and concern for family members and friends, always having the people and the purpose at heart.

Core Beliefs 

I am capable. I can collaborate. I can communicate. I can speak with candor. I can contribute.

Competence

Competence to speak from knowledge, seek out opportunities to learn, and speak up if you are over your head. Reach out for training, education, and mentorship. Build resilience and grit to move forward with a growth mindset. Own your tasks, and do not let the team down.

Collaboration

Collaboration with centralized planning, creativity, and mutual respect. Lift where you stand. Make lasting connections through teamwork and relationships.

Communication

Communication is vital if you have a change in the environment, resource constraints, or obstacles to task completion. Take the initiative; if time is critical and in the absence of guidance, do what you believe to be correct.

Candor

Candor allows everyone to use their voice and respectfully voice alternatives without unhinging the mission.

Contribution

Contribution to your family community. Volunteer, maintain balance; work to live, do not live to work.

Building Life Skills

Our core life skills develop over many years, which means adults can continue to build and strengthen them through coaching and practice.

Although it’s much easier to learn core life skills when you’ve had a strong foundation early in life, it’s also never too late. Brains continue to develop into our teen and adult years, which means adults can still learn and strengthen skills. (Harvard, Center on the Developing Child)

Growth & Grit

Personal growth towards constant self-improvement physically, socially, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. It will look different for everyone and will constantly change everyday. True grit showing passion and perseverance knowing failure will bring experience building life skills.

Self-Control & Ownership

Developing the ability to control how we respond to our emotions and stressful situations. “Only you can move your magnet” on the JOYrific Foundation Chart. Learning to own emotions and responses to situations while reflecting on ways to improve when mistakes happen.

Planning & Flexibility

Setting goals, creating a plan, building the skills to carry out tasks to accomplish the goal. Being able to adapt to every changing situations.

Awareness & Focus

Noticing others around us and being aware of our environment. Learning and developing skills to concentrate on what is important for the current situation.