Strategic Plan, Part 1: Conceptualizing a Business
Kimberley Miller Bridges
BUS/475
October 20, 2012
David Akerman, II

Strategic Plan, Part 1: Conceptualizing a Business Sabine Care Recreational Facility is a non-profit organization that serves the individuals, families, and community of the Sabine Parish area. This Agency is governed by a Board of Directors that is set in place to develop, implement, and enforce policies and procedures of the Board. These Policies and Procedures are based on the principles that an effective professional service depends on professional staff and the quality of service offered to customers. Sabine Care is founded upon Christian principles and is organized for educational, recreational, youth development, and family life purposes. The Agency’s purpose is to assist the residents of Sabine Parish to develop their fullest potential through the improvement of physical, mental, social, moral, and educational conditions.
The Agency is designed to assist at-risk youth, community youth, and educational/recreational programs. These programs will educate children of all ages in recreational and social development. Sabine Care will also offer after school programs that will assist children in educational requirements such as tutoring and counseling. Recreational Programs that will be offered through Sabine Care consist of clubs such as Spanish, Soccer, Football, Basketball, Baseball, Swimming, Band, Drama, etc. These clubs will not only assist children on an educational level but also in a physical, moral, and social level as well. Interactional activities will also be offered through Sabine Care that will teach children physical, mental, social, and moral conditions. These activities will include pool, four square, video games, board games, computer activities, reading programs, etc. These activities are geared to help children discover a way of life that includes team activities, non-violent (bullying) activities, and culture opportunities. Some of the children attending Sabine Care will be considered at-risk youth. At-risk youth can have a multitude of problems that derive from broken homes, psychological problems such as behavior, anger, and underdevelopment. These children will be offered counseling services that will manage, monitor, and assist with these behaviors. Sabine Care will contract these services so that these children are receiving the upmost beneficial and professional care. These contracted services are paid through grant services that offer monies for these special need services such as the Office of Juvenile Justice and state and federal grants. Sabine Care Recreational Facility’s mission statement has been designed to lay a foundation for its vision and its mission. The mission for Sabine Care is striving to become a home away from home for its participants. The youth that participate in its programs do not always have the best home environment and its goals is to keep a visually pleasing and clean environment, so that the participants can see that everything does not always have to be unclean. This will encourage the participants of the program to return again and again. The participants will also have a better mental attitude when the facility is clean and orderly. Sabine Care leaves an impression that will be long lasting as a friendly, caring, and a professional team. Sabine Care will also reveal that it is a confidential atmosphere that offers decision makers, and encourages new experiences. Each participant will gain insight in a playful atmosphere, will learn to respect others, and offers a family life. Sabine Care is each participant’s home away from home as well as a safe environment for each that decides to participate. This Agency will demonstrate each of these qualities, which in turn will help the Agency to grow into a successful avenue for the Sabine Parish youth and the community. With community effort Sabine Care will become a successful youth advocacy program that will extend within the community. Community efforts will be requested during the beginning stage process as well as annually. With local fundraisers Sabine Care will prosper and offer extended services to the participants and the community. Community programs will be offered to community members such as Zumba, cooking classes, Horticulture classes, etc. These programs will generate revenue for the facility as well as offer recreational and educational programs to its community members. Scholarships will be offered to the less fortunate such as at-risk youth. The future of Sabine Care relies on community involvement. Without local participation the future of the agency is a grim one. Sabine Care is not a sole proprietorship it is a community involvement program that requires the attention of each community member. The youth of the Parish is important and in order to keep the community’s youth off of the streets, out of jail, and off of drugs a youth recreational facility is the only choice. This will allow opportunities for the area’s youth and offer programs that otherwise might not be offered at home. Today’s youth lives in a fast pace world where attention is not just given out. The youth of today face both sets of parents working, a lack of community involvement, limited recreational opportunities, and a fast pace atmosphere that does not offer any assistance or care. Sabine Care is offering involvement, care, a proper atmosphere that wants to change the lives of today’s youth, and offers assistance in any way that it can. Bettering things is the goal and changing lives is an opportunity and a gift that Sabine Care is willing and wants to extend. In today’s society mixed cultures are the norm, so at Sabine Care this will also be the norm. However, it offers educational experiences that enlightens the atmosphere and teaches that culture and ethnic differences are the vision of the future. With educated staff members the differences of mixed cultures and ethnic backgrounds will become a number one priority in educational programs for each participant. Anti-socialism will not be allowed at Sabine Care nor will it become a crippling social judging game. Today’s youth will become educated about the differences of gender, culture, and ethnicity instead of becoming judged. A agency’s mission “is the unique purpose that sets a company apart from others of its type and identifies the scope of its operations in product, market, and technology terms” (Pearce, et. al., 2009, p. ___). “No external body requires that the company’s mission be defined, and the process of defining it is time-consuming and tedious” (Pearce, et. al., 2009, p.___ ). However, Sabine Care feels that it outlines and states its objectives and strategies in its mission statement. After reading the text Chapter 2 clearly defines the true meaning of a mission statement by stating “Only if a firm clearly articulates its long-term intentions can its goals serve as a basis for shared expectations, planning, and performance evaluation. A mission statement that is developed from this perspective provides managers with a unity of direction transcending individual, parochial, and temporary needs. It promotes a sense of shared expectations among all levels and generations of employees. It consolidates values over time and across individuals and interest groups. It projects a sense of worth and intent that can be identified and assimilated by outside stakeholders, that is customers, suppliers, competitors, local committees, and the general public. Finally, it asserts the firm’s commitment to responsible action in symbiosis with the preservation and protection of the essential claims of insider stakeholder’s survival, growth, and profitability” (Pearce, et. al., 2009, p. __). Sabine Care Recreational Facility has a competitive advantage in Sabine Parish because no other facility in this capacity is offered to the community. Day care facilities and Head Start programs are offered; however, these agencies do not offer the recreational programs that Sabine Care offers. The motto “Keeping kids off the streets and off of drugs” has become a thing of the past in this fast pace world and the prevention methods for our children have become a past time. Sabine Care Recreational Facility will arouse Sabine Parish’s youth be creating a safe environment that offers youth recreational programs will rekindle the old motto by making it new again. Sabine Care will also arouse the community’s interest by offering programs to the area’s youth and assuring parents of their children’s best interest. This avenue has been instilled into parents minds and hearts and will allow them an opportunity to safe guard their children within the community and protecting their children’s future.

Reference
Pearce, J. A. II, & Robinson, R. B. (2009). Strategic Management: Formulation, implementation, and control (11th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.