Agency Analysis

Here you should present in greater detail the essential facts about your agency as a whole and your role within it during the period of hours of experience. Some topics are presented below to guide you in making this description. Infuse some originality into the presentation and so not allow these suggestions to limit you.

1. History of Agency: When started and how, phases in growth, what and why?
2. Board of Directors: Organization, function, make-up, role of consumer group, etc.
3. Sources of Funds: Funding agencies and/or programs, budget size and allocations.
4. Location: City and neighborhood.
5. Facilities: Building office space, etc., include such items as provisions for the disable, general décor, limitations.
6. Function: Target population and the services rendered.
7. How Structured and Staffed: Formal lines of authority, division of responsibilities an organization chart might be helpful.
8. Relation to Community: Complimentary services, competing services, legitimating, and sanctioning groups. Beneficiaries of services.
9. Informal Social Structure of Agency: Interpersonal relationships, their nature and quality, how they affect agency goals and objectives, function and procedures.
10. Description of Assignment: Title, function, responsibilities, to whom and how.