The mission of our organization
is to provide a positive recreational environment with a variety of leisure
opportunities, through the maintaining of parks, facilities, and staff. The
benefits of my recreational services are especially designed to meet the
physical, mental, cultural, and social needs of the community, while enhancing
the overall quality of life, through an effective and efficient responsive
manner.
Values and
Traditions:
My organization embraces the values of integrity, a positive and enthusiastic attitude, teamwork, diversity, communication, and maintaining high quality facilities, parks, and staff to benefit the community.
One tradition that my program
offers is the Ability Building Adventures, which is a summer program of
learning and strengthening new adventurous skills. Each week there is a
different adventure (e.g. hiking/rock climbing, camping, river
rafting/kayaking, etc…) that begins with basic training and as the week goes
on, it turns into a wild and strengthening learning experience. Each student is
challenged throughout the week in physical, mental, social and cultural areas,
in ways that relate to the current adventure. The
Vision:
The vision of our organization is to continue to enhance the quality of professionally driven leisure and recreation, by expanding our resources, such as facilities and parks, in order to develop programs that will benefit every age, gender, and race, as well as maintaining a positive influence to the surrounding community.
I believe that every element that
is contained within my values, vision, and mission connect directly to the
program I am developing. These are the factors that form my program and make it
what it will become. Without each value, the standards that once were held
together by each other begin to minimize the potential of the vision for my
program. The importance and meaning of each value “serve as a common
denominator among people.”(P.64) Having the opportunity to develop a program
based on values, gives me a position of influence that will drive this program
to model and teach important values. Vision is also very important and plays a
huge role in building a program or organization. Setting goals and looking
ahead is the key to successful growth within a developing organization. The
goals and direction, within the vision, are the elements that will drive this
program to higher heights and greater opportunities in the future.