Reviewing SRCD’s Strategic Plan and Requesting Your Input

We are excited to use this column of Developments to let you know about SRCD’s new strategic planning process and to invite your input. Our prior strategic plan was developed about a decade ago. It has proven to be extremely valuable in helping SRCD to prioritize its activities and to be responsive to its members and the broader environment. Given the ever-changing national and global context in which we operate, Governing Council (GC) judged that it would be important to review and update our plan. This column provides you with background on the earlier strategic planning process, explains why GC decided to update the strategic plan, and describes the expected process and timelines. Ideas and suggestions from a range of members is critical to the process. At the end of the column you will fi nd specifi c information on how to provide input. Background In order for SRCD to continue to play a leading role in developmental research and to remain an important contributor to evidence-based policy, it must build on its current strengths, address its weaknesses, take advantage of ever changing opportunities and challenges within and outside the fi eld, and respond to threats facing the fi eld. Strate