PREPARED BY: Planning and Strategic Initiatives
DATE: 2024-12-05
SUBJECT: Strategic Plan Q3 Progress Report
BACKGROUND/PURPOSE
The WECHU’s 2022-2025 Refreshed Strategic Plan provides strategic direction to the organization. The plan defines the organizational vision, goals, and objectives to engage staff and support local public health outcomes within the community - with a specific focus on priority populations.
The Good Governance and Management Practices Domain of the Ontario Public Health Standards (2021) requires the Board of Health to provide governance direction and remain informed about the activities for organizational effectiveness through evaluation of the organization and strategic planning.
DISCUSSION
All current facets of the Strategic Plan are on track to be completed or implemented by the end of 2025.
Highlights for Q3 2024 include:
- Collaborated with the County of Essex to facilitate an outreach event that distributed over 500 Potassium Iodide (KI) Kits to the public who reside in the Primary Zone.
- A partnership with Windsor Police and the City of Windsor was established to address substance use through the Substance Supports in Neighbourhoods Access through Police Partnerships (SSNAPP) program.
- The Corporate Performance Management and Quality Improvement Plan was approved for full implementation in 2025.
- The 2024 process of conducting an organizational priority setting exercise to systematically assess program requirements, needs, and impacts was completed.