About Us, Mission, and Vision

Building strong individuals, families, and communities.

From basic needs like a loving family, safe housing, and life skills development, to more complex challenges like quality mental healthcare and economic empowerment – Auberle is a creative problem-solver, collaborative partner, and innovative program provider serving thousands of individuals and families annually across Pennsylvania annually. Auberle operates in an effective and efficient manner that is innovative, holistic, and collaborative.  

Five program areas. Unlimited possibilities. 

Our five program areas — Workforce Development, Housing, Young Adult Services, Foster Care, and Behavioral Health — work together to strengthen participant success while collaborating with hundreds of partners each year.
    
Through a data-informed, results-driven approach, Auberle is producing cutting-edge human service program delivery to make a big impact in our region on homelessness, unemployment, mental health and more. The success of our region’s future depends on how well we collectively care for our most underserved populations. Auberle has been doing this and doing it well for 70 years. As a proven front-line agency and thought leader in the field of human services across Pennsylvania, we pride ourselves on our ability to formulate creative solutions to our community’s most complex needs.

Creating award-winning solutions.

Auberle has received consistent accolades for its programs and staff, including the Social Current National Agency of the Year, National Aramark Building Community Organizational Leadership Award, Alliance for Strong Families and Communities Top 10 Performer in the Nation, Energage Culture of Excellence and Top Nonprofit Workplace in the Country, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Places to Work for 11 consecutive years, and more.

Identity: Auberle is a faith-based, Catholic agency.

Mission: Auberle helps build strong individuals, families, and communities.

Vision: To be the premier agency in the nation providing positive outcomes for all those we serve.

Every three years, Auberle staff and leadership join together to craft a new Strategic Plan to help inform and guide our future.

The Auberle Strategic Plan for 2018-2021 was overwhelmingly achieved despite the unimaginable world pandemic that hit the United States with a vengeance in Spring of 2020. We were able to pivot as needed, quickly evaluate priorities, and ultimately achieve strategic objectives that weren’t even on the radar. It was a bold, ambitious plan with 60 Strategic Objectives in four key areas: Programs; People; Tools and Processes; and Operations and Sustainability. We are proud to report that despite all of the hurdles and curves thrown our way by the COVID-19 pandemic we achieved 92% of the objectives. At Auberle, our staff continues to focus on not just surviving but thriving.

Auberle’s 2022-2025 Strategic Plan set out four areas of emphasis: Services, Human Capital, Operations and Sustainability, and Board. In each of the major areas, we have agreed upon the Strategic Initiative and the priority goals that need to be accomplished or explored more deeply.

The strategic plan will continue to serve as a living document that will be regularly and purposefully monitored, evaluated, and revised as necessary to most effectively advance our mission in building strong individuals, families, and communities.

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We measure the success of every client we serve in every program. Our results have earned us national recognition through awards such as “Agency of the Year” in the United States by the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities. Aramark awarded Auberle their national Community Organizational Leadership Award for effective outcomes while demonstrating “great leadership, strategic governance, a focus on equity, a culture of partnership and innovation, and a commitment to values-based advocacy” (Aramark national press release).

When the status quo isn’t working, we create new solutions. We are the first in the country to bring treatment to the entire family through our Family Healing Center to address neglect of children as a result of drug use by the caregiver. We effectively brought the Stop Now and Plan (SNAP®) program to the United States. Our 412 Youth Zone has been cloned in several places around the country including our facility in Crawford County.

We offer a wide range of integrated and trauma-informed services, both internal and through our partners, to meet our clients’ diverse needs. For example, a family entering our emergency housing may need to acquire job skills to be able to pay for permanent housing. A person seeking employment may need anger management training in order to keep a well-paying job. This can be found all under one roof at Auberle. 

We don’t have all the answers, so we build large networks of committed and inclusive partners to help us carry out our mission. Our hundreds of partners include for-profit companies, employers, clients, government agencies, funders, and other nonprofits.