Strategic Plan Communications Toolkit

Example:

• Are you or a neighbor searching for work? To promote individual and family Economic Opportunity and facilitate broad access to services, DFS has significantly expanded their menu of virtual tools for job seekers, especially those who are laid-off or very low-income. Check out the new website: Employment and Training | Family Services (fairfaxcounty.gov)

Notes:

• Economic Opportunity is one of the 10 Community Outcome Areas outlined in the Countywide Strategic Plan
• One of the Economic Opportunity Indicators of Success is Economic Stability and Upward Mobility for All People
• A proposed strategy under Economic Opportunity is to “provide residents with a comprehensive menu of available services and resources to promote individual and family economic opportunity and facilitate broad access through proactive community engagement”

Example:

• Beginning February 8, 2022, Fairfax County Government Channel 16 added Spanish closed captioning for all public meetings and live events, aligning with the Effective and Efficient Government Community Outcome Area.

Notes:

• Effective and Efficient Government is one of the 10 Community Outcome Areas outlined in the Countywide Strategic Plan
• One of the Effective and Efficient Government Indicators of Success is Inclusive Community Engagement
• A proposed strategy under Effective and Efficient Government is to "enhance communication and outreach to the community by using all available methods and tailoring messaging to individual needs"

• The 2024 Countywide Strategic Plan Annual Report has been released! Check out the key actions and progress we are making in the 10 Community Outcome Areas: https://bit.ly/48nR5OX 
• The countywide plan for success has hit the newsstands! Well, maybe just our website. The important part is that it will serve as our North Star over the next ten years. You can find a copy of the Countywide Strategic Plan here: www.fairfaxcounty.gov/strategicplan/
• Did you know the county has its first-ever Strategic Plan? Check out the highlights on this short video: https://bit.ly/3MvIoaP
• More than a million people call Fairfax County home, and that number is growing! Together we can shape the future of Fairfax for both new and existing community members, check out our shared vision: www.fairfaxcounty.gov/strategicplan/
• We’ve rolled up our sleeves and are working hard to implement the Countywide Strategic Plan. Interested in how it was developed and where we are now? Check out this recently to following video: https://bit.ly/3EMYnPl 

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors adopted the first-ever countywide strategic plan on October 5, 2021.  The strategic plan focuses on four key drivers which were used to immediately catalyze organization change: Equity, Community Outcomes, Data Integration, and Inclusive Engagement. These elements set a new foundation for the way different functions within County government work together under a shared vision, in pursuit of achieving real and sustained progress for the benefit of all people who live, work, and play in Fairfax County.

Year Two focused heavily on the use of an equity lens in strategic decision making and included greatly expanded opportunities for employee professional development and embedding the Countywide Strategic Plan framework across all departments. In February of 2024, the second Annual Report on the work of the Countywide Strategic Plan was released to the public. The report contains point-in-time progress highlights for each of the community outcome areas, plus three data dashboards and data stories that are being replicated across all of the outcome areas, and a number of additional initiatives to embed the elements of the plan within department-level work.