"via" Model   

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

    On the right side, a vStatus chart depicts vStatus, using both vulnerability and thriving indicators, for populations or for individual persons.  The model recognizes that there are interventions that increase and reduce vulnerability and that increase thriving. The desired strategy is to:

• Do interventions that move people up from vulnerability.
• Do interventions that prevent more vulnerability.
• Do interventions that achieve highest thriving.

    The model lays out the key strategic actions – stop those interventions/actions that increase vulnerability and support those interventions/actions that reduce vulnerability and increase thriving.  Long term success depends on executing a strategy that results in 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 to surviving to thriving.