The Greenhill Community Center was a multi-service center in Coastal City. Its main purpose was to provide human service programs for various factors throughout life with an intergenerational setting. Some of these included day care, elder programs, music classes, and afterschool programs. It was founded in 1982 and was set up in an old schoolhouse. In short, this community center could use some help. The Greenhill Community Center definitely seems like it could use some help on almost everything as far as leadership goes. When it comes to their mission and direction, it is not very solid. Their mission seems to be to provide human service programs for learning, growth, and enrichment throughout life within an intergenerational setting. Their mission needs some direction and is actually too broad. They do not really have a specific mission or direction at all. It just states what the community center does, not what it strives to do. According to the text, “mission creep” is defined as a gradual evolution away from the organization’s purposes into ancillary activities that may eventually result in an organization that is very unfocused (Worth, 2009, p. 164). By this definition, this organization definitely shows examples of mission …show more content…
These two issues actually feed off of one another. The board is weak and unmotivated because they do not have a clear, encouraging mission statement. They do not really have much of a mission statement to go by, so they just do the bare minimum to get by. If the mission statement was given an overhaul and worded to be inspiring and accurate to their organization, the board would have something to strive after and “obey” in a sense. Both of these issues should take precedent and be dealt with immediately to get this organization off of the mission creep and back on
Community elected home owners association officials are constantly involved in complex decisions regarding the state, safety, and welfare of the property of our small community and solving community problems. Effective ways to solve problems faced by Deer Crossing Homeowners’ is to conduct a needs assessment of the community in an effort to provide feedback for the community elected officials.
This case study is a situation from Case Studies on Educational Administration (Kowalski, 2011). The background information is listed below.
It also lacks the emphasis necessary to reach business goals and to develop strategies that will move the company onward. Having no objective weakened the possibilities of long term growth and risked achievement in the business. It put at threat funds for future projects that needed them especially since there business kept growing, not with the intent that they had at the beginning which was to help Latina women fighting domestic violence but to expand to every women going thru the same
Ideas of community, social progress, and culture are an ever-evolving social work issue. How do we as social workers choose to approach needs of groups and communities at the macro level? In order to grasp an understanding of true helping systems it is important for one to have a range of knowledge to justly participate within the formal helping structures an models that comprise of the social work field. In attempt to create our identity as active justice based social workers it is essential for one to conceptualize the framework of intersectionality. According to Kirsten-Ashmen, “Intersectionality involves the idea that people are complex and can belong to multiple, overlapping diverse groups “The intersectional perspective acknowledge the breath of the human experience, instead of conceptualizing social relationships and identities separately in terms of either race or class or gender or age or sexual orientation”; rather an intersectional approach focuses on the “interactional affects” of belonging to multiple groups (p. 48).” In order to remain committed to intersectionality I will apply theories and models to a progressing community in the city of Boston. A critical analysis of the strengths and weakness within each theory related to the specific community will be discussed. I will expose the intersecting layers, allowing for identity development through the lens of the macro social worker. I will begin by discussing my experience through the research process with my team members. After giving a detailed description of the project we can further explore the empowerment theory and systems theory to better explain the development of Dudley Street. The two theories are able to give an understanding of Roxbury’s forward progre...
High school is a time for students to develop new interests, talents, and hobbies. As well as, prepare them with material they need for college or the workforce. Most schools, Sequoyah High School being amongst one of these schools, are lacking the resources that students need in order to pursue these academic interests. Although Sequoyah High School is a great high school for students in Monroe County, there are several issues that still need to change in order to help better the school system as a whole.
Cornerstone Youth Center provides a place for kids ages twelve to eighteen to hang out after school. On any day of the week there are approximately thirty to thirty-five students attending the center. The students appear to be from low socioeconomic status. Also, some of the students have learning disabilities or behavioral problems, which lead them to perform poorly in school.
need to improve its management team, set up succession plan, reduce dependence on Cadbury family-
The Park Slope School, Ps.282 is located in Park Slope Brooklyn. Ps.282 is a Kindergarten to eighth grade school full of diversity. The school’s staff was pleased to assist me with any of my needs. Although finding the right time to schedule an interview with the parent coordinator and guidance counselor was difficult, both parent coordinator and guidance counselor were more than willing to dedicate their time to focus on the interview.
The mission of an organization is the key aspect in its functioning. Accomplishing this mission requires put a lot of effort to ensure that everyone in the organization is focused on the mission. Several methods shape the mission of an
Strategic planning did nothing but hinder Youth Haven from making more profit, keeping investors happy, and staying on mission. It was not the best management technique for Youth Haven. Since they had a deficit of $20,000, I believe they should not have outsourced to a third-party for a fee. Because of this their funding continued to get increasingly tighter. They still had a deficit and if they can not keep their investors happy, they are going to leave too. Strategic planning should be used as a stepping stool used to evaluate company policy and mission retention. Strategic planning was not used wisely within this organization. Strategic planning is a stepping stool within an organization and should only be used as such. According to a Strategic
The organization I work for is a nursing home management company. That’s the simple definition. Health Services Management Group manages of the operations of eleven (11) skilled nursing facilities (SNF), and three (3) home health agencies (HHA). Each of the SNFs and HHAs are operated/licensed by a single purpose entity. Of these long term care providers, one (1) SNF and two (2) HHAs are operated as non-profit organizations. The purpose of the non-profit providers, ultimately, is to fund The Trousdale School. “Trousdale School serves high functioning adults with intellectual disabilities, providing academics and life skills for the purpose of learning independence.” 1
The issue with the suggested location of the homeless shelter is that it is too close to businesses, an elementary school and a park. 1000 N. Kraemer Place is not the adequate location for a homeless shelter, there are businesses nearby and a school 1.9 miles away, this is not safe for children walking home from school. If this shelter were to be opened it would result in major chaos with the children’s parents because the parents will not allow their precious jewels to walk home after school. Aside from the school there is also a park located 1.2 miles from the proposed shelter, children are constantly playing at all hours of the day, but if this homeless shelter is placed here parents will not give their children permission to go out and play. This prohibits children from receiving their daily needed exercise.
Give people a purpose, not just a job (Cockerell, 2008). It is imperative that employees understand the vision and mission statements of the organization and carry it out because they want to, not because they have to.
The Smithfield School is part of The School District of Philadelphia that serves 563 students in the grades from K-8. Smithfield student body is 80.2% African American, 5% White, 6.1% Asian, 1.4% Latino and 7.3% others. At the Smithfield School, 100% of the students are CEP Economically Disadvantaged (eligible for free lunch), during this school year (2014-2015). When it comes to school attendance the students had a academic school average of 93.2% and the teachers school attendance average was 88.4% compare to 93.4% among the School District of Philadelphia schools in 2013-2014.
a set of organizational goals that are used to operationalize the mission statement and that is specific and cover a well-defined time frame. The Vision organizational goal that suggested powerful and compelling mental images. Mission statement a set of organizational goals that include both the purpose of the organization, its scope of operations, and the basis of