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The Division of Public Health and Community Services is the public health entity for the City of Nashua
and is the first accredited Heaith Department in New Hampshire. Its mission is to promote, protect and
preserve the health and well-being of the Greater Nashua Region through leadership and community
collaboration (Division of Public Health and Community Services).
Recently, your organization has embarked on a transformation to become the “Public Health Prevention
Strategist’. To do so, you are seeking to improve quality, enhance partnerships and create sustainable
funding sources. This will require the adoption of system thinking and approaches to strategy creation
and execution. This will also require an internal transformation, an entrepreneurial culture, and the
ability to move many internal and external stakeholders in the direction of change.
Your plan includes analyzing and creating a framework to address prevention-based strategies for public
health challenges. More specificaily, you want to affect adverse childhood experiences that lead to high
risk behaviors. This will require your team taking a complete systems approach, which includes training
for you and your staff on leadership, systems and strategic planning, and then translating those efforts
and leadership to your external PHAC team (approximately 24 external community leaders).
The applied Learning Resource Grant you have includes funds for leadership applied learning and a
strategic plan. You suggested that your strategic plan for the future will need to be more creative,
innovative, agile and collaborative, and most importantly will include and engage the PHAC team. You
will require an operational document as a final product that you and your [ELPH team will create, which.
may also require other consultants and communication experts (other than Sojourn). Sojourn Partners
will lead and facilitate on a collaborative road map that your executive team and your external PHAC
team can explore and agree upon, and eventually lead to execution.
Based on our discussion and the materials you provided, Sojourn proposes that you combine leadership
applied learning to create a community strategic plan that delivers 3 goals in your Applied Learning
Resource Grant:
Experiential Leadership Development - Proposed is a Leadership/Strategy Development process
that combines leadership development and strategic planning in an experiential process. A real-
time applied learning of leadership, strategy, change, influence, culture, communication and
management competencies with your immediate leadership team (approximately 9 people) will
be delivered. Within that structure of learning, you will apply that knowledge towards strategic
planning during the multi-month program. For example, when you are learning about strategy
creation, you will work on strategy creation for the department. When you learn about how to
execute a plan for change, you will learn change principles while applying those principles to the
strategic plans you evolve. This interactive and hands on approach will instill conternporary
leadership competencies and then force your team to apply them to your planning. The ultimate
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