Board Met this Weekend, February 2 0 & 21
Hi all,
The AOTA Board members met this weekend via phone and "live meeting." We accomplished a great deal of work this past day and a half. The February Board meeting is typically devoted to strategic planning, which the Vice-President, Virginia Stoffell is in charge of conducting. As part of the process, we reviewed data about our external and internal environments, such as a review of what is going on with Congress, are the key advocacy issues (Reauthorization of IDEA), and are key issues of states (such as budget reductions and the impact on higher education and Medicaid). We examined the potential impact of healthcare reform on Academic health centers and how nursing has obtained funds to increase numbers of students and faculty. The internal issues discussed were growth in educational OT and OTA programs, the growth of for profit OTA programs, the number of faculty vacancies, the number of faculty projected retirements, and the growth in membership by demographic catagories. There were many more data sources reviewed to discuss all of them here.
Once we reviewed data, we then reviewed our current logic model that can be found on the front page of the web site under Centennial Vision. What is a logic model? It is a kind of score card on the progress toward the Centennial Vision. What the logic model does is connects the activities we do as an Association to the proposed impact on the profession, and then how this impact will be measured. The analysis showed us that we had met some of the measures and were making significant progress on others. We also learned that we needed to add activities and measures to address some of the challenges identified in the external/internal data.
Now, our Vice-President will be finalizing our new logic model for another review by the Board to ensure we captured everything from the meeting. Once the new startegic plan/logic model is completed, it will be made available for all members on the Centennial Vision part of the website. The importance of the logic model is that it will guide the budgeting process which will begin soon and will be prepared for the June Board meeting.
I am so excited about everything that AOTA has accomplished and plans to accomplish in the near future as we progress toward the Centennial Vision. I will be reviewing our accomplishments in my final address at the AOTA Conference in Orlando. I encourage everyone to join me in learning about all we have done. We should be very enthused about what we can do as we move forward!!
Penny Moyers Cleveland
AOTA President