Overview
Mission
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Our mission is to build a healthy, equitable community in Tompkins County by addressing the root causes of health disparities and integrating mental, physical, and environmental health.
Vision
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We envision a future where every person in Tompkins County can achieve wellness.
Values
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Together, we value compassion, collaboration, integrity, innovation, and learning within our organization.
Intent
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An integrated and empowered team, advancing a collaborative effort to promote prevention and equitably improve individual and population health.
Priorities
1. Integration
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Merge the department structures to become one organization and increase our ability to better serve our clients and community.
Summarized Key Result Areas:
- Creating an integrated org chart.
- Conducting analyses to better understand client needs related to the new structure.
- Review our internal workflows/processes for efficiency.
- Develop a staff-informed and well-rounded communication plan for our integrated org. Manage and communicate the transition of our brand and identity.
- Enhance staff culture and relationships through increasing awareness and understanding of our work.
- Improve and integrate the client experience, especially for those engaging in several of our services.
- Document our merger story and share our success widely!
2. Culture
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Align the organization around our shared Mission and Values-Based Culture to create an empowered, engaged, and cohesive team.
Summarized Key Result Areas:
- Create and implement a commitment, framework, and plan to root values of equity and inclusion within TCWH, with a plan for a specific focus on creating and implementing diverse recruitment strategies.
- Explore developing an accountability and support system to accompany this commitment.
- Collaborate with Team JEDI on county-wide initiatives.
- Create a plan to enhance equity and inclusion within TCWH long-term, including opportunities to document and share success.
- Explore ways to embed and bring to life our Values-Based Culture.
3. Community
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Strengthen the collaborative effort within Tompkins County to equitably impact individual and population health.
Summarized Key Result Areas:
- Visualize (map) our network of community partners and resources and use this to develop a plan to build and maintain strategic partnerships.
- Analyze our community engagement practices and develop tailored strategies to build out engagement with (and awareness of) our available resources and services.
- Develop a unified strategy/approach to collaborating on funding with community partners.
4. Data
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Review and establish effective data collection to measure programmatic, organizational and county progress against our priorities.
Summarized Key Result Areas:
- Develop a coordinated plan for collection and analysis of health equity focused data.
- Outline an internal process for data-based decision-making.
- Assess perceptions and understanding of organizational values through surveys or other mechanisms and use findings to develop actionable plans.
- Create a regular review process for programs and services to be evaluated for inclusivity and equity.