April 2026 update:
View in PDF: Strategic Plan – Framing Our Future 2024 – 2029 April 2026 Update
In June 2024, the Board of Directors approved the Strategic Plan – Framing Our Future: 2024-2029.
The Strategic Plan identifies four strategic goals and strategies to achieve identified outcomes. Below are the goals, a selection of example outcomes from the larger list and some of the steps taken in the past 6 months.
- Regenerate and strengthen our organizational sustainability and structure.
- ASC, and the opportunity for Board involvement, will be well known which will assist in Board Recruitment.
- The communities we serve know and promote ASC, the services offered, and the contributions made.
- Grow innovation and responsiveness.
- Expanded, responsive programs and services.
- Future readiness and flexibility to address changing needs and be responsive to Requests for Proposals.
- Administrative and capital improvements for operational excellence and efficiency.
- Internal accountability and assurance of compliance with regulating bodies.
- Enhancement of health and safety processes and policy to meet and exceed what is required from all regulating bodies related to employees and clientele.
- Strengthen our capacity for Human Resource excellence; enhance the sense of teamwork and organizational culture where employees feel valued and connected to the Mission, Vision, and Principles of ASC.
- Employees have the capacity to learn new roles and support across programs.
- A workplace that is flexible to environmental impacts (health, political, economic, client need, program need, policy).
Achievements and Steps We’ve Taken, November 2025 – April 2026:
- ASC welcomed a fifth Board Member who is serving as Vice President.
- Healthy Famies and the Olds RCMP Christmas Toy Drive resulted in over $6000 of donations in-kind.
- Olds Town Council approve a rezoning application.
- Created processes for Client Wellness Audits, program resets, and residential/program transitions.
- Depot is celebrating its 40th anniversary and has begun offering a pick-up service.
- Applied for multiple grants to continue Healthy Families and enhance Connect Seniors Services.
- Facilitated an employee survey to assess satisfaction with the revised Extended Benefits Program.
- Demonstrated compliance through multiple OHS, Licensing, and Alberta Health related investigations.
- Extensive planning to address residential renovations, relocation, and adjustments across three locations.
