L2000+ was
created based upon a needs assessment.
The following Executive Summary, dated
May 1998, reviews the key aspects of the
needs assessment.
For a complete
copy of the Needs Assessment, please contact
Cindy
Holodnak, Director Management Development
Programs
John Glenn School of Public Affairs
The Ohio State University
110 Page Hall, 1810 College Rd., Columbus,
OH 43210-1336
(614) 292-7731, fax (614) 292-2182
holodnak.1@osu.edu
Needs
Assessment Executive Summary, May 1998
L2000+
A Leadership Development
Initiative for Behavioral Health Care
Professionals
Executive Summary of Needs
Assessment
by The Ohio State University
School of Public Policy and Management
May, 1998
This needs assessment
was designed to determine the viability
of a creating a leadership development
initiative in Central Ohio. The four month
study produced overwhelming consensus
in support of creating such an initiative.
The process lead to a clearly defined
initiative, its underlying values, how
the initiative should be designed, the
participants and participant selection,
timelines, connections to existing initiatives
and providers, unique factors, and recommendations
for funding.
The sixty plus behavioral
health care leaders who participated in
the assessment were able to identify the
challenges facing the next generation
of behavioral health care leaders and
the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required
of leaders to face these challenges. The
Consultants Collaborative, building on
the findings of the focus groups and the
survey, made a series of recommendations
defining the initiative. Based upon their
recommendations, a proposal will be developed
to fund a leadership development initiative
for Ohio's behavioral health care professionals
through The Ohio State University John
Glenn Institute and the School of Public
Policy and Management.
The collaborative recommended:
The initiative will be built on a set
of values that allow participants to gather
knowledge and skills that can be tested
and brought back to their organization.
Employing organizations
will partner with the initiative to support
the participant, identify leadership challenges,
and implement new processes developed
through participation with the initiative.
The key components and
learning modalities of the initiative
will
include building a working base of knowledge,
personal attributes, ethics, and skills
of being a leader in behavioral health
care; setting individual goals and developing
a learning track utilizing newly created
and existing courses and programs; integrating
diversity and a variety of world views
in all aspects of the initiative; creating
opportunities to dialogue with national
and Ohio leaders in the field of behavioral
health care; mentoring
and coaching; applying learnings to a
specific project and to case studies targeting
the challenges confronting behavioral
health care leaders; using and applying
technology as a communication, data analysis,
and learning modality; and building opportunities
for ongoing reunions and dialogues for
graduates of the initiative along with
ways to integrate graduates within the
ongoing program.
The initiative should
stagger two classes of participants yearly
with opportunities for a second year in
the program. Participants
will meet monthly for a structured program
which will be the core of each participant's
individual learning track. Participants
will be sought from public and private
behavioral health care organizations and
from programs/services that are linked
to behavioral health care (law enforcement,
medicine, graduate programs, etc.)
The initiative will consistently
evolve, learning from its successes. In
addition to designing the initiative,
the collaborative made first year and
long-term finding recommendations. The
collaborative recommended that the first
year funding be a joint venture of the
Ohio Departments of Mental Health and
Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, county
agencies, participating colleges and universities,
employing organizations and participants.
Second year and longer-term funding suggestions
include seeking sponsorship from private
sector companies with an interest in behavioral
health care and grants from local and
national foundations with a special interest
in behavioral health care, drug and addiction
services, or leadership development.
