Assignment : Organizational Structure Culture (Doc)

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT 1
Organizational Culture and Management
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Date of Submission

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT 2
Table of Contents
Agency and Proposal Introduction..................................................................................................3
Project Needs Analysis (Conceptual Phase)....................................................................................4
Project Goals and Objectives (Definition Phase)............................................................................5
Implementation Plan (Commencement and Performance Phase)...................................................9
1. Action Strategy.....................................................................................................................9
2. Strategy for Project Resourcing..........................................................................................10
3. Communication strategy.....................................................................................................11
Strategies for Project Evaluation (Closure Phase).........................................................................13
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................15
Reference.......................................................................................................................................17

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT 3
Berry Street Organization Australia
Stand-By-Me Program
Agency and Proposal Introduction
This organizational management report will evaluate Berry Street’s Stand By Me (SBM)
Program under the umbrella of Leaving Care Sustainability Projects which will be launched in
the Southern regions of the country by December 2018. This program’s aim is to provide
flexible, holistic, and intensive care support to a group of young Australians that transition from
OHC (Out-of-Home Care). According to research performed by Berry Street, youths that leave
care centres are disadvantaged and most marginalized as a result of their periodic, variable care
experiences; pre-care experiences; as well as accelerated and compressed transitions to
adulthood. The children in Victoria, for instance, are provided with care by Health and Human
Services Department and in line with the Youth and Families Act of 2005. Such care also
extends to young adults leaving OHC up to the age of 21 (Australian Institute of Health and
Welfare, 2016). Although the care systems in Victoria have functional for more than five years
now, their general impacts are unevaluated. Apart from that, though the sector of care provision
has realized advances, there is research evidence suggesting that there are relatively poor
outcomes that care leavers experience from time to time. Otherwise, in terms of young adults’
transition from care centres outcomes, those who have faced the poorest outcomes are them with
worse or adverse experiences on pre-care (Miller, 2012). The youth who are highly risked and
falling into this category are presented with complex and multiple needs and wants from mental
health and cognitive disabilities examinations to violence, substance abuse, and sexual
vulnerability examinations. Such individuals are also regarded as cohort not likely to receive or
access services while transitioning from care since their challenging behaviour and complex

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needs are not compatible with care system associated with mainstream care leaving (Baldry, Et
al., 2015).
Project Needs Analysis (Conceptual Phase)
According to research performed by Berry Street on care provision within the Southern
parts of Australia, adult youth leaving care outcomes are poor (particularly for adolescents faced
with high-risk, complex and multiple needs) because they go through services system that is
complicated. Such is the reason why Berry Street plans to develop an SBM project for the
Southern Region Care Systems. The project design will ensure that significant care problems are
reduced (Australian Government, 2008).
Before the inception of this program, Berry Street performed a research activity under the
Leaving Care Sustainability Projects umbrella in Victoria on leaving care systems within the
state. Within the study period, several poor long-term outcomes were noted particularly for
individuals who transition from state-provided care. The young adults were reported to be
incompatible with limited state offered resources and existing designs of mainstream care
leaving services (Calligeros, 2015). However, the paradox in this study is that young adults
transiting from care provision systems in the State of Victoria were still in need of post-care and
support. According to such analysis, Berry Street established that the individuals who
experienced volatile pathways in relation to post-care actually included youths who did not
properly access care. Afterwards, Berry Street decided that it would go with the UK PA Model
since it is a potential, transformative model and would help SBM Program achieve its
operational objectives by helping the youth adequately navigate through a complicated care
services system (Cashmore & Paxman, 2006, pg. 238).