Strategic Plans

Fri, 03/27/2015 - 12:51 -- Louisa County PH

Looking for advice on how to begin developing a strategic plan in hopes of submitting application for PHAB accreditation. The SP seems to be our biggest hurdle, and most overwhelming task, any direction would be greatly apprecitaed!

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Submitted by topclown56 on

I've created a Strategic Planning guide that you might find helpful.  It walks through 10 steps to create a strategic plan.  I shared it at the recent NNPHI Open Forum in San Antonio.  If you want to contact me at sramsey_1@comcast.net I will send it to you or you can look on NNPHI website and they have all the materials posted on their site.

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Submitted by Megan Davis on

Those same 10 steps are reflected in this short tutorial, which could a helpful introduction before you begin your planning effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQzxjsj69f8

The Public Health Centers for Excellence (http://www.phcfe.org/) are another resource for technical assistance, should you want to reach out to them.

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Accreditation Coordinator
Washington State Dept. of Health

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Submitted by Grace Gorenflo on

First of all, don't let the development of a strategic plan overwhelm you! Yes, it requires some thoughtful time, and yet the outcome can and should be very useful guidance for the department.  

Secondly, NACCHO has a few resources -- in particular, please see the first one that was specifically developed for public health departments: http://naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/accreditation/strategic-plan.cfm.

 

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Submitted by Nancy Crewe on

We used the strategic planning textbook by John M. Bryson, Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement as the resource/guidebook for our strategic planning efforts three years ago. (Dr. Bryson is the McKnight Presidential Professor of Planning and Public Affairs and Interim Associate Dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.) We used the accompanying workbook Creating Your Strategic Plan: A Workbook for Public and Nonprofit Organizations by Bryson and Farnum Alston to organize the actual process of developing the plan. From the completed work sheets we chose out of the workbook, we structured the final planning document and distilled our plan down to six SMART goals for our health department. We have been monitoring their implementation ever since at our monthly senior leadership meetings. We will use the same books when we begin another cycle of strategic planning in January 2016.

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