South Carolina Legislature

HOUSE LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Commission for the Blind


Subcommittee: Healthcare and Regulatory

Subcommittee Chair: Phyllis J. Henderson

Subcommittee Members: Hon. William K. Bowers, Hon. Bill Taylor, Hon. MaryGail K. Douglas
Agency Website: http://www.sccb.state.sc.us/

Agency Head: James M. Kirby

Study Contact: Elaine Robertson
Contact Email: [email protected];
Agency Information

Agency Goals & Strategic Plan

At the highest level, an agency's goals logically and naturally derive from the agency's mission statement. Goals state what the agency wants to accomplish over the next two or three years. They provide the basis for decisions about the nature, scope, and relative priorities of all programs and activities. Agency actions should facilitate the attainment of one or more goals.

Below are links, by year, to Excel documents that include details about the agency goals, objectives in the agency's strategic plan, and the programs that help the agency accomplish its strategic plan. Also included is an overview of the agency's strategic plan for the current year. This information was provided by the agency in its Annual Restructuring Report, Program Evaluation, Request for Information, or Accountability Report.

In the Strategic Plan Details Excel document, details of the goals are on one tab and details for each objective are on separate individual tabs. The Objective tabs include the person responsible for ensuring the agency accomplishes the objective; amount spent to accomplish it; performance measures; potential negative impact to the public if the agency does not accomplish it; any external or internal reviews or audits which relate to it; and the entities with whom the agency is currently working in order to accomplish the objective.

The Agency Programs and Related Objectives Excel document includes a list of the agency's programs, a description of the program, the legal standard requiring the program and the objective in the strategic plan that the program helps to accomplish.

Click on any of the links below to go to the applicable part of this webpage:
  • Current Strategic Plan Overview
  • Strategic Plan Documents & Previous Strategic Plans
  • What does "Responsible Employee" mean?

  • 2015-16


    • Current Strategic Plan Overview

    Goal 1 - Deliver quality, individualized vocational rehabilitation services that will assist Blind and visually impaired individuals in obtaining or maintaining competitive integrated employment.

  • Public Benefit/Intended Outcome: Increased employment leads to increased economic self-sufficiency, independence, and self-reliance. Expanded tax-base, increase tax payers. Decreased demand on other public service and benefit programs such as welfare programs, subsidized housing, etc.
  • Responsible Employee: Kyle Walker, Program Director of Vocational Rehabilitation Consumer Services (Responsible for less than 1 year)

    • Strategy 1.1 - Increase the number of consumers served by the vocational rehabilitation program

  • Objective 1.1.1 - Increase public awareness of SCCB services to the unserved and underserved minorities and rural counties

  • Objective 1.1.2 - Expand outreach services to unserved and underserved rural counties.

  • Objective 1.1.3 - Develop a commensurate ratio of consumer to provider on all caseloads to ensure expediency of service in all areas.

    • Strategy 1.2 - Increase successful placements and closures in competitive, integrated employment for all consumers.

  • Objective 1.2.1 - Provide adjustment to blindness, assistive technology and job readiness training consistently at EMBRC and in outreach locations.

  • Objective 1.2.2 - Expand job search, development and placement opportunities.

  • Objective 1.2.3 - Increase successful placement rate for youth consumers aged 14 to 21 and consumers requiring supported employment services

  • Objective 1.2.4 - Increase the number of successful case closures

    • Goal 2 - Provide services to assist eligible consumers who are not seeking employment to maintain the highest level of self-sufficiency possible.

  • Public Benefit/Intended Outcome: Increased independent living skills and improved adjustment to blindness results in expanded individual freedom, independence, self-reliance, and leads to employment and economic self-sufficiency. Decreases demand on other public services.
  • Responsible Employee: Rhonda Thompson, Program Director of Older Blind, Children's Services, and Low Vision Clinics (Agency did not state how long the employee has been responsible for this goal)

    • Strategy 2.1 - Develop and maintain consistent and quality individualized service plans.

  • Objective 2.1.1 - Increase community interaction through home visits and developing new referral sources in unserved and underserved rural counties.

  • Objective 2.1.2 - Collaborate with nonprofit, social and human service organizations to provide early intervention services.

    • Goal 3 - Provide the administrative leadership to build a strong team that will strive to fulfill the agency mission.

  • Public Benefit/Intended Outcome: Mission focused leadership and sound fiscal stewardship ensure that the agency meets its legal purpose.
  • Responsible Employee: James Kirby, Commissioner of South Carolina Commission for the Blind (Agency did not state how long the employee has been responsible for this goal)

    • Strategy 3.1 - Create a diversified, highly qualified workforce with the administrative leadership necessary to ensure accountability, effectiveness, and efficiency.

  • Objective 3.1.1 - Develop a process to attract highly qualified candidates and heighten employee satisfaction to increase retention.

  • Objective 3.1.2 - Provide staff development training to improve employee's skills and provide up-to-date information to consumers.

  • Objective 3.1.3 - Strengthen the communication among the leadership team to create a consistent flow of information to staff.


    • Responsible Employee Explained

    The Responsible Employee for an agency Goal may have different teams of employees to help accomplish the goal. The Responsible Employee is the person who, either alone or in conjunction with a team and appropriate approval, determines the strategy and objectives necessary to accomplish the goal.

    The Responsible Employee for an agency Objective may have employees or teams of employees to help accomplish the objective. If it is a small agency, it may be the same person responsible for the overarching goal. The same person is not required to be responsible for all the objectives. The Responsible Employee has some level of decision making power as this person, in conjunction with the team and appropriate approval, sets the performance measure targets and determines the plan for how to accomplish the objective.



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