At Easterseals, we’re leading the way to 100% equity, inclusion, and access. And we’re going there together.
We used your input to create the FY 24 - 27 Strategic Plan, which will guide us forward as an organization. It includes the promises, goals, and initiatives that we want to implement and achieve over the next three years. This 3-year plan picks up where our previous plan left off, and expands on our promises to the people we support, our team, and our community.
Our promises to our donors, team, the people and families we support, our stakeholders, and our community:
Our services will focus on whole-person care, independence, and its impact on the people we support, their families, and the community.
We will advocate for the people we support, our workforce, and our community.
We will invest in our workforce to retain, develop, and attract mission-driven talent.
We will be financially strategic to fuel innovation, growth, and financial sustainability.
We will utilize technology to capture, analyze, and use data to drive our programs and their success.
To uphold these promises, we’ve decided to focus on three transformation categories: Missouri, Kansas, and Technology.
Each category includes overall goals and objectives to help us achieve them, and initiatives we will implement to get us there together.
Our goal for Missouri is to expand our services, form partnerships, and broaden our funding to meet the needs of people with disabilities throughout the state. To do this, we have three main objectives:
Launch a Home Health Program to optimize health outcomes for the people we support.
Launch a Crisis Residential Service to support the most at-risk people in our communities.
Launch a fully functioning Technology Enabled Support program to empower people with disabilities to have the most independence possible.
Here’s a closer look at how we’ll support those objectives:
Encourage more employee engagement.
Provide management training and leadership development.
Recruit a diverse pool of candidates from many different communities, backgrounds, and cultures.
Advocate for an increase in state funding to support our programs.
Advocate for an increase in federal funding to support our innovative projects.
Share data on how we’re delivering our services through program outcomes.
Increase our fundraising to make up 5% of our annual budget.
Build strategic partnerships and affiliations among potential collaborators.
Review how we’re doing through a quarterly service portfolio.
Much like our goal for Missouri, in Kansas we aim to expand and introduce services, form new partnerships, and diversify funding to meet the needs of people with disabilities in the state, many of which don’t have access to disability programs. To do this, we have two major objectives:
Launch an Autism Program Expansion strategy to introduce our life-changing services to the state.
Secure the essential funding contracts needed to ensure value and positive impact to our Kansas stakeholders.
Here’s a closer look at how we’ll support those objectives:
Recruit a diverse pool of candidates from many different communities, backgrounds, and cultures.
Build strategic partnerships and affiliations among potential collaborators.
Advocate for an increase in federal funding to support our innovative projects.
Increase our fundraising to make up 5% of our annual budget.
Build an infrastructure to support managed care and value-based contracting in the state.
Technology will be used throughout ou organization to enhance our programs and encourage innovation and growth. To do this, we have two objectives:
Launch a fully-functioning Electronic Health Record, which will set the framework for a data-driven and informed future.
Build an infrastructure so we can introduce Technology Enabled Supports across our program areas.
Here’s a closer look at how we’ll do that:
Put a strategy in place and create a tool that shares the outcomes of our program delivery.
Provide management training and leadership development.
Increase our fundraising to make up 5% of our annual budget.
Review how we’re doing through a quarterly service portfolio.
Timeline
We know we can’t achieve all of this overnight. So we’ve laid out a specific timeline to show which initiatives will be active in which Fiscal Years of this plan.
