********** Please include the abstract and conclusion ********** Strategic Issues After the needs assessment has been completed, the next element of the strategic plan involves developing the strategic issues. Key tasks associated with the strategic issues include conducting a gap analysis, performing an environmental scan, and developing stakeholder surveys. The actions are performed so that you can conduct a SWOT analysis. SWOT stands for STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORUNITIES, and THREATS. A SWOT analysis is used to help an agency, organization, or community better understand the business and environment in which it operates. The goal of developing strategic issues is to list or map out all of the strengths and weaknesses, and then to do the same for all of the opportunities and threats. This helps the organization to identify a strategy for planning. Opportunities that match the strengths are things that should be pursued. Threats that particularly align with weaknesses should be especially avoided when developing a strategic plan. For this Assignment, you complete a SWOT analysis for Natasha House, Inc. To prepare: Review Final Project: Developing a Strategic Plan –S.W.O.T Analysis media in the Weekly Resources. Consider the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges related to Natasha House, Inc. Think about the environmental factors you might review in preparation for addressing the strategic issues component for Natasha House, Inc. The environmental factors may include: political, economic, demographic, regulatory, philanthropic, donor trends, and other organizations providing similar services. The Assignment (4–6 pages): Conduct a SWOT analysis. This analysis focuses on assessing the present state or condition of Natasha House, Inc.and determining where the organization would like to be. The difference between the two represents the gap, or the difference between where Natasha House, Inc. is currently and where Natasha House, Inc.would like to be. This gap could provide direction for the major focus of the strategic plan. Describe plans for conducting an environmental scan. The environmental scan is a process in which stakeholders gather and interpret relevant data on an agency, organization, or community to identify external opportunities and threats. Identify and describe internal conditions that might impact the implementation of the strategic plan. Address how you would minimize the impact of those conditions. Identify and describe external conditions or competitors that might impact the implementation of the strategic plan. Address how you would minimize the impact of those conditions. Consider how you might plan to work with competitors to meet the needs of your targeted agency, organization, or community. Identify and describe at least three strengths of Natasha House, Inc.. State why each item on the list is a strength. State how you plan to utilize each strength to positively the impact the development or imp ...

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Strategic Issues
After the needs assessment has been completed, the next
element of the strategic plan involves developing the strategic
issues. Key tasks associated with the strategic issues include
conducting a gap analysis, performing an environmental scan,
and developing stakeholder surveys. The actions are performed
so that you can conduct a SWOT analysis. SWOT stands for
STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORUNITIES, and
THREATS. A SWOT analysis is used to help an agency,
organization, or community better understand the business and
environment in which it operates. The goal of developing
strategic issues is to list or map out all of the strengths and
weaknesses, and then to do the same for all of the opportunities
and threats. This helps the organization to identify a strategy
for planning. Opportunities that match the strengths are things
that should be pursued. Threats that particularly align with
weaknesses should be especially avoided when developing a
strategic plan.
For this Assignment, you complete a SWOT analysis for
Natasha House, Inc.
To prepare:
Review Final Project: Developing a Strategic Plan –S.W.O.T
Analysis media in the Weekly Resources.
Consider the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and
challenges related to Natasha House, Inc.
Think about the environmental factors you might review in
preparation for addressing the strategic issues component for

2. Natasha House, Inc. The environmental factors may include:
political, economic, demographic, regulatory, philanthropic,
donor trends, and other organizations providing similar
services.
The Assignment (4–6 pages):
Conduct a SWOT analysis. This analysis focuses on assessing
the present state or condition of Natasha House, Inc.and
determining where the organization would like to be. The
difference between the two represents the gap, or the difference
between where Natasha House, Inc. is currently and where
Natasha House, Inc.would like to be. This gap could provide
direction for the major focus of the strategic plan.
Describe plans for conducting an environmental scan. The
environmental scan is a process in which stakeholders gather
and interpret relevant data on an agency, organization, or
community to identify external opportunities and threats.
Identify and describe internal conditions that might impact the
implementation of the strategic plan.
Address how you would minimize the impact of those
conditions.
Identify and describe external conditions or competitors that
might impact the implementation of the strategic plan.
Address how you would minimize the impact of those
conditions.
Consider how you might plan to work with competitors to meet
the needs of your targeted agency, organization, or community.
Identify and describe at least three strengths of Natasha House,
Inc..
State why each item on the list is a strength.
State how you plan to utilize each strength to positively the
impact the development or implementation of the strategic plan.
Identify and describe at least three weaknesses of Natasha
House,
Inc.

3. State how you plan to minimize the impact of the weakness.
Identify and describe at least three threats to Natasha House,
Inc.
State what causes each item on the list to be a threat.
State how you plan to minimize the impact of the threat.
Identify and describe at least three opportunities for
improvement for Natasha House, Inc.
State what causes each item on the list to be an opportunity for
improvement.
State how you plan to incorporate the opportunity in the
implementation of the strategic plan.
Support your Application Assignment, citing all resources in
APA style, including those in the Learning Resources.
References
Wronka, J. (2017). Human rights and social justice: Social
action and service for the helping and health professions (2nd
ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 3, “An Advanced Generalist/Public Health Model and
Whole Population Approaches to Human Rights and Social
Justice” (pp. 125–186)
http://nonprofitanswerguide.org/strategic-planning/
Laureate Education (Producer). (2009b). Factors impacting
change [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
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4. Factors Impacting Change
Factors Impacting Change
Program Transcript
NARRATOR: Whether or not a change effort is successful
depends on a variety
of factors. In this video program, Dr. Judy Lewis describes two
of these factors,
systems and diversity, and explains how they impact change
efforts.
JUDY LEWIS: You really can't even think about change without
thinking about

5. the concept of systems. Whether you're talking about a family
system, a
community system, an organization, systems have their way of
operating. They
like to keep things at a steady state. When an individual tries to
change
something, you're going to come up against the system trying to
maintain itself in
the usual customary way. No matter what kind of change you're
trying to bring
about, you really have to be analyzing what's happening with
the systems that
impact the individual.
It's an interesting thing about family counseling. Family
counselors understand
systems to their core. One of the basic things that every family
counselor knows
is that an individual is affected by the family system, and that
it's very difficult to
change anything about an individual's behavior without coming
up against the
need to get adjustments in the system as a whole.
But even though family counselors understand about family
systems, they don't
always necessarily look beyond the family to the larger system.
When you have a
family system, that family system is impacted by culture, by
diversity in the
population, by community norms, by societal norms.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have the coincidence of having the
same kinds of things
happen in family after family. The distant father, what's seen as
the over-involved

6. mother, the differences in gender roles. You wouldn't have that
in family after
family if that weren't something that people have learned, not
just from within
their family, but from the culture as a whole.
Suppose that a counselor is working with a family. And that
family, you have a
situation where the woman is battered. Now, you could look at
that from within
the family, and you could think about what is the
psychopathology of the male
batterer? What is the psychopathology of the female victim?
Or you could look beyond that, not to excuse the behavior of a
batterer, but to
ask, what is it that this man learned about the role of men?
What did he learn
about that from his culture, from society? What did this woman
learn about the
role of women? What did she learn about gender, as a person
growing up in this
society?
If you look beyond what's happening in the individual family to
the larger
systems, it gives you so much more understanding of what's
happening. And it
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also makes you realize that you need to look beyond just your
clients in order to
make any big changes, and in order to prevent more families
from going through
this same thing.
I think as a counselor/educator in particular, this is a great
opportunity for
teaching. Because students will come up against clients like
this. They'll come up
against families like this. And the way that they're going to
learn to have that
broader picture comes from the questions that the
counselor/educator or
supervisor asks.

8. What are you seeing here? What might you ask this woman
about what she
thinks about the meaning of being a woman in this society?
What if you were to ask this man about what he learned growing
up about the
role of a man in a family?
As long as you, as the educator or supervisor are asking these
questions, you're
going to broaden the outlook of the counselors, and that's going
to make all the
difference.
When we're talking about working with systems, we need to
make sure that our
counselor/education students understand this and are able to
work with it.
Now, of course, you need to begin with explaining how systems
work. They need
to understand how it works theoretically. Especially because
sometimes it seems
counter-intuitive. Sometimes it looks like an individual person
in a family is
sabotaging the recovery of another person in the family. But
you have to change
your point of view to understand that it's just the system
reasserting itself, and
trying to protect itself from change.
So there has to be a general understanding of systems and how
they work. But
there's no substitute for particular examples, real people
questioning what's
happening in a particular family, or with a particular individual

9. in a systems
context.
So part of what needs to happen is that educators and
supervisors need to be
alert to opportunities to teach about systems whenever their
students are talking
about particular cases.
As long as we keep asking questions and broadening the context
within which
our students see what's happening, I think we're going to have a
lot of impact.
The most important thing for a counselor to understand about
diversity, or multi-
culturalism, is that it isn't just a list of the characteristics of
particular populations.
It really starts with looking internally at oneself, and the
assumptions that one
makes, just as a person, rather than as a professional. What are
the assumptions
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that we make about, what is good mental health? What is a
healthy family? What
is an effective way to live in the world?
Our own assumptions that come from our culture may have an
impact on the way
we work with clients in a way that may be damaging. If we
assume that our own
assumptions are universal, then we might try to impose those
without even
realizing what we're doing. And we might be imposing a version
of mental health
that doesn't fit maybe a different, more traditional culture.
So the counselor has to begin by a lot of self-interrogation. Am
I sure that I am
being careful not to impose my own views on the client?
Now, that goes up another level to the counselor/educator or
supervisor. We
really need, as counselor/educators and supervisors, to be

11. careful to do some of
that internal searching ourselves, because it's going to be our
responsibility to
help counselors in training learn to ask themselves these
questions.
Now, you can talk about multi-culturalism and diversity in
general terms. But
when you look at actual clients, when a student is working with
a case, it's the
supervisor or the educator who's going to be asking the
question, what made you
ask about that? Or, had you thought about asking the family
what they thought
about whether people should be independent at a particular age?
Have you
asked these questions?
I think that that's an important thing for educators and
supervisors to be able to
do. It means that, in order to have our students start to develop
a broad point of
view about what the community does to enhance mental health,
we need to have
that in our own hearts and minds first.
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