Our Impact

"Your life and mine shall be valued not by what we take... but by what we give."

Those words, spoken by Easterseals' founder Edgar Allen over 90 years ago, began a movement. Today, we're thankful to you for being a part of that movement. With over 50 million Americans living with disabilities, our work is far from complete. We encourage you to help us call attention to the experience of people with disabilities, and to raise awareness of and advocate for the services they need to live, learn, work, and play in their communities.

2022-2025 Strategic Plan

Our strategic planning efforts aim to refine our organization’s identity, define our 3-year vision, and engineer the operational rhythms required to execute our strategy.  Essential to our process was the input of multiple groups, including our participants and their families, team members, and community stakeholders. Through ongoing meetings, interviews, and surveys, we learned about the identity and collective vision of Easterseals Louisiana.

Throughout our year-long process, we continued to iterate as we developed our enhanced mission statement, theory of change, beliefs, and vitals utilizing ongoing feedback loops. On this solid foundation, we built our three year objectives and key results.

Most strategic plans wind up on shelves. Crucial to our process was packaging our identity and vision into an actionable tool: the Compass. In addition, we designed a set of core operating rhythms to ensure the plan would be implemented and monitored effectively.