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Within the next 2 year, Changing Ourselves Actively and Productively hopes to grow into a successful

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Goal One: Increase visibility of Changing Ourselves Actively & Productively as an organization focused on mental health and wellbeing serving clients in Southern California.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Goal Two: Provide workforce development skills, job training, and job retention skills to help clients obtain and remain employed and employable.

Goal Type: Focus on core programs to achieve mission and scale back on programs not seen as core.

Describe an investment in leadership

In the past 12 months, Changing Ourselves Actively & Productively invested in leadership and development by arranging for the CEO to attend trainings on creating a sustainable organization, purchasing entrepreneurial literature for the organization in addition to devoting time to understanding the fiduciary roles of leadership in a nonprofit to remain compliant with local and federal laws.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

Changing Ourselves Actively & Productively is focuses on external mobilization efforts in participating in networks of other organizations with shared missions and goals relating to mental health awareness. Changing Ourselves Actively & Productively produces shareable social media posts and comments on the posts of other familiar organizations involved in mental health nationally and globally. An additional mobilization effort of Changing Ourselves Actively & Productively is to increase the awareness of the effects of mental illness on workers especially during what is termed "The Great Migration", a mass exit of workers in both the healthcare, public education and retail areas who were once deemed first responders. With the motto of Changing Ourselves Actively & Productively (COAP) being COAP can help you cope, we are working to improve the community by reducing housing insecurity while providing support to manage stressors in order to remain employed and employable.

While each Board Member has been personally impacted, Changing Ourselves Actively & Productively has been resilient during the unprecedented global pandemic of COVID-19. We are better organized because of the values that we all have for helping to improve the lives of someone else. The ability to connect via web conferencing has enabled our organization to connect with clients who are not yet ready to socialize in small groups again. The power of being able to share our own struggles with maintaining mental wellbeing amongst ourselves also enabled us to connect with clients facing similar challenges. For example, when many stores were out of stock of basic items, we shared similar substitutes that we were using without shame or judgement and it validated the reality of the shared experience. We are all in the same storm, but we may have different tools. Giving up is not an option and COAP has been helping it's Board Members and clients to cope!