To prepare:
- Review Final Project: Developing a Strategic Plan Part 1: The Fundamentals media in the Weekly Resources.
- To prepare for this Assignment, review your Discussion 2 post from Week 1. Research the core values, mission, and vision of your selected agency, organization, or community.
- In addition, consider the key stakeholders involved with the agency, both internally and externally, including other professions.
- Consider whether this agency addresses or supports the mental health and welfare or human rights of individuals.
The Assignment (3 pages):
For this Assignment, perform the following:
- Identify and describe the core values of the agency.
- Discuss the degree to which those core values are aligned with advocacy, leadership, or social change.
- State how those core values contribute to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
- Identify and describe the mission of the agency, organization, or community.
- Evaluate whether the mission statement is aligned with the core values of the agency, organization, etc.
- Describe whether the mission statement promotes advocacy, leadership, or social change.
- Discuss whether the mission statement provides evidence of how the agency/organization contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
- Identify and describe the vision of the agency.
- Evaluate whether the vision is aligned with the core values of the agency, organization, etc.
- Describe whether the vision promotes advocacy, leadership, or social change.
- Discuss whether the vision provides evidence of how the agency/organization contributes to the well-being of individuals, groups, societies, or international communities.
- Identify and describe key stakeholders involved with the agency.
- Discuss whether each stakeholder is internal or external to the agency/organization.
- Describe the role each stakeholder has in the organization (i.e., leadership, management, staff, recipient of services, etc.).
- Discuss how each stakeholder can be an essential element for gathering information to develop the strategic plan.