•Using a SWOT analysis or checklist, assess the organization.

•Strengths: Internal capabilities that give the organization an advantage.

•Weaknesses: Internal limitations that hinder the organization's performance.

•Opportunities: External factors that present potential for growth or improvement.

•Threats: External factors that could negatively impact the organization.

List your thoughts about the assessment

1. Human Rights Campaign

2. Strengths: Public-facing, strong advocacy, technology presence, fundraising, fighting for LGBTQIA+ rights.

3. Weakness: Inclusivity, intersectional advocacy

4. Opportunity: Growth, expansion, funding

5. Threats: Business and money

Thoughts: HRC does good work, but they lack in embodying abolitionist social work approaches

Strengths: trainings for clinicians, resources for clients and families more than just therapy (resources include support groups, self care events for teens, etc.)

Weaknesses: Lack of client/family engagement (example: clients not going to their appts and then just ghosting me)

Opportunities: trainings for clinicians, serving minority groups, providing more services in the future

Threats: Trump Administration policies, funding issues

Strengths:

Prompt investigation in ER Services.

Knowledgeable supervisors

Ongoing training

Strong connections with community organizations like Black Child Legacy

Weaknesses:

Caseload for each worker

Safety

How do we continually assess workers bias to ensure safety for our clients

Opportunities:

Assess for worker bias

Identify supports for burnt out sw’s

Threats:

Negative press/media coverage

Changing attitudes towards CPS

Weakness- not a lot of cultural competence or continuous education about it. Not enough out reach to promote diversity and inclusivity to all.

Opportunity- the agency provides opportunities and resources to all clients regardless of their background.

Threat- living in a rural area where people are very conservative and close minded.

Weakness - seems to be a disconnect from higher ups such as CEO with clinican level and under staff

Opportunities - allows for clinicians of different programs within the organization to cross train and move into other programs (currently in the early psychosis and evening reporting center for juvenile probation)

Threats - withdrawals of funds due to change in federal level policy changes

1. Strengths: clearly stated mission on their website (kind of); attempt to assist clients with re-entry into society following incarceration/state hospitalization; provide case management services to clients who otherwise would not have access to them; current director attempts to prioritize staff well-being

2. Weaknesses: treatment sometimes feels punitive versus rehabilitative; power rests with providers; high clinician turnover ; community members are not involved in decision-making

3. Opportunities: policy updates (all policies are DSH, so many are old and outdated); increased education/training

4. Threats: decreased funding would harm the organization; punitive actions can create harm to clients through decreased sense of autonomy; power creates subjective decisions that can lead to re-incarceration

Strengths: Community-based, non-profit.

Weaknesses: Catholic roots - lack of birth control services and resources

Opportunity: Growth in proactive approaches to offering services and awareness on heath conditions

Threats: funding for community based programs

Thoughts: the hospital does a great job at serving the community and underserved populations. With limited funding, programs the education proactive approaches to managing healthcare may diminish

Weaknesses: quotas that have to be met and each clinic is ranked depending on meeting these quotas

Opportunities: servicing low-socioeconomic and minority groups, external resources for patients

Threats: Cutting Medicare/Social Security, Lack of access to healthcare

Weakness: lack of relevant training and understaffing

Opportunities: training

Threats: finances, unclear policies

Organization does advocate for policy change in support of immigrants. Safe space for people of diverse backgrounds.

The organization partners with other behavioral health centers as well as legal resources

6. N/A

7. The company does prioritize staff 7/10 of the time

Strength: Offer a wide range of services for mental health: Crisis intervention, acute hospitalization, case management, medication management. There is a variety of teams focused on different cultures, ages, and justice impacted clients.

Weakness: Some policies prevent continuity of care between teams or clinics.

Opportunity: Cross training would provide insight and flexibility among staff and foster a more supportive experience for the clients.

Threats: Only serve Medi-Cal recipients. High turnover rate for employees.

S: diversity, inclusion, organized

W: Takes a long time for things to change due to chain of command

O: A lot of space for growth, networking

T: A lot of challenges may arise due to the current administration threatening medical and federal fund

2) Strengths: They hire former residents and others with a history of drug abuse that can relate to current residents; retention: many employees have worked there for years, not a high turnover; serve rural population; dual diagnosis; insurance appeals; legal support; programming is diverse, more than just 12-steps

3) Weaknesses: Programming could be better; not enough training for counseling staff; no behavior health providers on site (all through zoom); population not racially or ethnically diverse

4) Opportunities:

5) Threats:

1. Strengths: offers important life skills and work opportunity to the clients while in the program; clients feel a sense of belonging and community

2. Weakness: Clients are mostly accepted through referral, so some programs are not accessible to EVERYONE.

3. Opportunities: working collaborativelywith other agencies, so clients are well familiar with eachother; agency adopts newly revised programs and incorporates them into their own programs to better help clients; endless trainings (i.e. Naloxone for OD)

4. Threats:

Strengths: They employ many providers who are representative of the community that they serve. The main mission of the organization is to provide “healthcare for all” and believe that “everyone in our community deserves quality healthcare delivered with dignity and respect”

Weaknesses: Their hands are tied over who is eligible to receive care depending if clients have MediCare/MediCal. They are also very backed up as far as appointments go and people may only be seen once once every 2 months at the soonest.

Opportunities: They have a current partnership with the city of Stockton which resulted in a mobile community response team which can respond to cases which involve mental health crisis where police can’t really help.

Threats: services are only available as long as funding is available and if documentation isn’t done then the organization does not get paid.