Strategic plan
A vision for 2025-2028
As of this writing, NAMI Colorado Springs is vetting potential partners and seeking funding for a new strategic plan. We hope to start and perhaps complete work in 2025.
In the meantime, please scroll down for a look at our 2022-24 plan. With our planning partner, Mission Spark, we captured input, feedback and ideas via surveys, interviews, and ongoing engagement. We also reviewed best practices of, and lessons learned by, 10 other NAMI affiliates from across the country.
Mission, vision, values & equity statement
Strategic orientation
The big-picture approach to 2022-24
During the timeframe of this strategic plan, NAMI Colorado Springs will grow its capacity and services in a focused, intentional and balanced way. By doing so, we will expand our impact to benefit more individuals and our community, while ensuring the health and well-being of our staff and volunteers. We will create “brave space” and engage in intentional risk-taking and iterative learning as we plan and implement.
Strategic goals
Pledges to which we’ve held ourselves accountable
Infrastructure to thrive
with appropriate and accessible facilities, and organizational capacity strengthened through staffing and use of best practices in policies, procedures and management.
Focused and community-responsive programming
informed by the strengths, needs, desires and continuous feedback of veterans, youth and individuals who are Black, Hispanic and/or LGBTQ+.
Leadership in mental health
with cutting-edge peer programs supporting more people and families. Staff and board members build internal leadership capacity and contribute expertise in strategic partnerships and community initiatives.
Awareness in and engagement of community
guided by a marketing plan that elevates peer voices and powerful storytelling for both targeted audiences and the general public.
Funding for the Future
to include an annual budget that approaches $1 million through sources of diverse, new and potentially earned revenue, and the groundwork for an endowment.
Cross-cutting strategies
Values-based practices fueling the pursuit of our strategic goals
- Leverage and support NAMI Colorado Springs’ core strengths, including volunteerism and peer approach.
- Design programs and services guided by the local community but aligned with and informed by NAMI Colorado and NAMI national.
- Deepen relationships and build partnerships with other organizations and initiatives to extend NAMI Colorado Springs’ reach while improving the overall health and well-being of our community.
- Consider lived experience and evaluation data to develop feedback loops for continuous improvement.
- Support staff and volunteers by strengthening systems and spaces dedicated to their mental health and well-being.
Five-year vision
How we realize our potential
- Be a $1 million organization
- Establish an endowment
- Reach communities we haven’t consistently served before (veterans/military, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, youth/teens)
- Be well-staffed, in skill sets and numbers, to meet community demand for peer support services
- Come first to mind when people are seeking mental health leadership and services
- Be recognized as a mental health leader in the community