Case Summary assignment, you developed a treatment plan (that is, a strategy to address the client's needs). Now in Unit 10, you are going to discuss an organizational strategy that would address a community need. This strategy should be based on your Unit 8 Organizational Assessment and Proposed Plan assignment—it is how you recommend the organization implement the program or modification that you proposed in the Unit 8 assignment. Organizations make changes by developing organizational strategic plans, which is similar to a treatment plan, but the focus is on an organization rather than an individual client. The SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework is a widely-used framework for developing strategic plans for organizations that treat compulsive and addictive disorders.
The organizational strategic plan serves as a tool so the organization can develop a specific strategy for a change, such as the development or modification of a program or some other project the organization is undertaking.
An effective organizational strategic plan also provides you, as the scholar-practitioner, the opportunity to integrate the foundation of theory and research into organizational planning and practice, in order to provide better services and outcomes for the client population served by the organization.
Your Organizational Strategic Plan assignment should cover the identification of a current organizational practice and an initial organizational assessment (both of which were completed in the Unit 8 assignment) through the end of the first strategic planning cycle, usually a one-year time frame. The first strategic planning cycle should include implementation of the recommendation as well as an evaluation of the recommendation. The strategic plan should cover organizational strengths, challenges, resources, and barriers to success, gaps identified in the needs assessment process and recommendations for a plan to address those gaps, as well as an ongoing reassessment plan after the first strategic planning cycle is completed.
Your Organizational Strategic Plan course project assignment must include the below elements, compiled in order into one Word document. You are expected to complete the following tasks:
Introduce the strategic plan by including the organization's mission, vision, values, and population served, as well as how the proposed program aligns to these items.
Reiterate the community needs assessment finding from the Unit 5 assignment. Explain how the proposed recommendation (a new program, program modification, or enhanced accessibility of services) is aligned to the organization's mission, vision, values and population served. Review your findings from the Unit 8 assignment to guide your introduction.
Justify the need for program recommendations with scholarly support in a form of a brief literature review. Review the Unit 6 Literature Review assignment for help.
Apply the organizational strategic plan using the five elements of the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework to the development of your strategic plan:
Assessment: Evaluate how the organization is currently meeting the community need with the selected compulsive and addictive problem and targeted population.
What services are currently being provided? Where is the gap?
Capacity: Evaluate the organization's capacity to meet the community need for the selected compulsive and addictive problem and targeted population.
How will your proposed program utilize community resources or forge partnerships with community stakeholders?
Planning: Create an evidence-based program proposal that aligns to the synthesis of literature review.
What interventions or strategies should be used?
Why are these strategies or interventions a good fit for the targeted population and community?
Implementation: Create an implementation plan for the proposed program.
What resources are needed?
How will the changes or additions be introduced? What is the timeline?
Evaluation: Explain the evaluation process for the proposed program.
How will you know the implementation was successful?
What data will you analyze?
How will you share results with key stakeholders?
Analyze the sustainability of the plan.
Evaluate the organizational culture competence.
Provide a summary, conclusions, recommendations, and references.