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Digitized by the Internet Archive 2014 in https://archive.org/details/massachusettsreh9839mass ^7 MLR Massachusetts Rehabilitation KM Commission fiscal years 1083-1987 Elmer C. Bartels Commissioner Of Rehabilitation GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS COLLECTION J'JH'V 1953 University of Massachusetts Depository Copy MASSACHUSETTS REHABILITATION COMMISSION LONG RANGE PLAN FISCAL YEAR 1983 to 1987 . FORWARD The Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission Long Range Plan, Fiscal Year 1983 to 1987 is a document designed to familiarize the reader with the outstanding program directions of the agency over the next five year period. The Plan consists of a series of mission statements, goals, and objectives (where applicable) to explain the leading con- cerns that are to be addressed by both upper management and the senior staff. The Commission's functional divisions and departments will respond with their annual objectives and action steps to the goals put forth in this document. Agency staff will review both the Long and Short Range Plans annually, and may revise the contents where necessary, in order to ac- complish the best regional area and central office planning possible. The Long Range Plan is divided into several sections to give the reader a complete perspective of agency operations. The "Principles of Operating the Commission" section defines both the client service and administrative principles as stated by the Commissioner. A short nar- rative on the structure and client eligibility criteria is presented under "The Commission". The outstanding programmatic achievements together with appropriate facts and figures is presented in the section entitled "Highlights of State FY'82". In addition, client service statuses reflecting actual FY 81 figures, FY'82 and FY' 83 goals are compared. Moreover, ' fiscal considerations related to the upcoming FY '83 are discussed under "Budget Priorities of FY '83" along with any commentaries in ac- cordance with state-funded programs and cost-saving measures for the upcoming year. An external assumptions section highlights fiscal con- cerns that could have an impact upon how the agency functions over the long range An introductory background to the agency is completed with the section "Overview of the Commission", in which both a description of the or- ganization and its structure are discussed. The Organizational Chart for FY'82 is presented to give a graphic display of how particular el- ements of the Commission relate to each other. Discussion of the long range text begins with a presentation of the "Agency Mission Statement" and "Agency Goal Statements" section. Office-related missions, goals and objectives are presented for the different sectors of upper management and senior staff to give a full account of the anticipated operations for each of the respective of- fices over the long range time frame.