PREPARED BY: Planning and Strategic Initiatives
DATE: 2024-09-26
SUBJECT: Strategic Plan Q2 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 Q2 2024 include:
- Collaborated with the Town of Amherstburg to facilitate an event that distributed over 500 Potassium Iodide (KI) Kits to the public who reside in the Primary Zone.
- The Equity, Diversity & Inclusion committee published a “Inclusive Workplace Pronoun Policy” and worked with Information Technology to give staff the ability to add their pronouns to their email signature as a means of showing inclusivity within the WECHU.
- A partnership with Essex-Windsor EMS was established to facilitate data and information exchange with the goal of improving local health service planning and interventions.