Identify the Plan for Success

The Local Plan

In more than 115 elementary and high schools across eight dioceses, the Healey local model has become standard operating practice. This plan for implementing the Healey Advancement Methodology requires:

• Top-down, Bottom-up Sustainable Change — Consistent, supportive leadership from the diocese and purposeful, sound action at the school level together ensure long-term success.
• Empowered Laity — The school’s Board of Specified Jurisdiction doesn’t just advise. Instead, the board is entrusted with decision making, policy making and financial accountability. It is goal and results oriented.
• Local Control — A full-time advancement director in elementary schools and admissions and institutional advancement directors in high schools bring the business strategy to fruition. Tactics must be embraced by the school community, true to the school’s mission and measurable.
• Hand-on Consulting — Healey guides each partner school in the hiring and training of staff required to implement the local model. Key staff and constituents participate in workshops and regular meetings with a Healey Director of Schools. The president, principal, advancement and admissions staff, pastor and board members have opportunities to learn, share and resolve issues in order to move forward.
• Best Practices — Healey shares tried and tested methods, processes and tools for creating and perpetuating a mission-driven, data-informed and family-centered educational environment. Best practices empower schools to successfully deliver better enrollment, stronger fundraising and more effective governance.
• A Stake in the Game — Each school is invested in its own future. By committing financial resources to hiring the right staff and budgeting for the required infrastructure and tools, the school demonstrates its broader commitment to strong leadership, building a culture of philanthropy and meeting its mission.