Pathways Strategic Plan     
       

     Vision Priority 1
          Be financially stable and positioned to provide services.
                        Goal 1:  The Center will explore and establish short and long term funding mechanisms.
                   Goal 2:  Cultivate relationships with current donors and funders.
 
    Vision Priority 2
       Maintain a positive internal climate conducive to work and service provision.
                   Goal 1:  Practice teamwork among staff and Board. 
                   Goal 2:  Build staff cohesion by promoting intra-component involvement.
   
      Vision Priority 3 
        Anticipate, recognize and respond to community need. 
                   Goal 1:  Be leaders in community education to respond to service needs. 
                   Goal 2:  Be involved on local, regional and state levels relevant to our professions. 
                   Goal 3:  Continually gather information on trends, issues and gaps in the community. 
                   Goal 4:  Develop and expand programs responsive to community need, within our mission.   
   Vision Priority 4
         Be recognized as a resource for effective quality training.
                   Goal 1:  Develop and implement a highly visible marketing plan for our training services. 
                   Goal 2:  Be responsive to community training needs within the agency’s mission.
                   Goal 3:  Encourage staff to develop and enhance areas of expertise.  
   
     Vision Priority 5
       Maintain effective internal systems conducive to work and service provision. 
                        Goal 1:  Leadership Team develop plans at least twice per year to upgrade orientation, provide training, 
                               increase staff as needed, and upgrade training and technology resources.
                   Goal 2:  Agency policies and procedures to be reviewed and updated by June 30 of each year in order to
                               meet the needs of the staff and agency. 
                   Goal 3:  The Executive Director of the agency to be responsible to initiate and monitor the organizational
                               planning process to make sure that the cycle of planning continues.
     
     Vision Priority 6
         Have our full range of services understood and accessed by consumers and providers. 
                   Goal 1:  Establish community recognition of the agency by name.

      Vision Priority 7       
         Be effective in enhancing life skills of high-risk youth. 
                   Goal 1:  Achieve sustainability for Community Corps. 
                   Goal 2:  Maintain and expand school groups services throughout the community.
                   Goal 3:  Be responsive to program needs of high-risk youth in the community.

      Vision Priority 8     
         Be effective in precluding the onset of ATOD (alcohol, tobacco and other drug) problems in Licking County. 
                   Goal 1:  Program gain and maintain prevention certification. 
                   Goal 2:  Maintain and enhance funding to respond to service needs.
                   Goal 3:  Develop programming based on effective, research-based methods. 
                   Goal 4:  Provide programming for youth with a “no use” message. 
                   Goal 5:  Provide prevention services for age groups across the entire life span. 
                   Goal 6:  Provide services to address environmental risk factors in communities.

     Vision Priority 9
           Be an effective aid for increasing the quality and availability of child care in the community.
           Goals for Quality: 
                       Goal 1:  Expand awareness of our resources to child care providers (center and home providers). 
                  Goal 2:  Seek out other possible resources for provider equipment and materials for home providers.
                  Goal 3:  Provide more workshops to child care providers. 
                  Goal 4:  Be a resource for child care providers for professional development. 
            Goals for Availability: 
                  Goal 1:  Expand awareness of services to parents and corporations. 
                  Goal 2:  Increase accuracy of updates of provider information in database. 
                  Goal 3:  Increase collaboration of referrals with other agencies. 
        
       Vision Priority 10
         Be effective in providing immediate access to quality crisis response and referral information. 
                  Goal 1:  Have adequate professional staff to keep high quality service delivery. 
                  Goal 2:  Identify community services/gaps as we expand and update the resource database. 
                  Goal 3:  Increase awareness of our services through consistent marketing. 
                  Goal 4:  Do outreach to groups/organizations on how the C/H&IC can coordinate and collaborate with them. 
                  Goal 5:  Join 2-1-1 and become the local 2-1-1 provider. 
   Vision Priority 11
          Demonstrate commitment to healthy communities by providing opportunity for staff to engage in 
          community activities. 
                  Goal 1:  Promote awareness of opportunities for involvement in the community. 
    Vision Priority 12
        Continue commitment to development of social service professionals. 
                  Goal 1:  Promote participation and support staff and components in accessing professional development 
                             opportunities.
                  Goal 2:  Share staff expertise with other social service and community groups.

                                                                OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Believing that every person is valuable and capable, we will: