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Question: How are an agencys mission and vision different? Answer: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the selected health agency. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been associated with several programs developed for human health. The Human and Health Services (HHS) is regulated by the United States government. This agency aims at securing the health of all the American people and affording them necessary human services especially for all those individuals who were unable to help themselves. Their mission lies in giving appropriate care to needy people by advancing their treatment in terms of medicines, health care, and services. The agency has implemented many programs in different areas like Administration for Children and Families, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among them, the writer focused on the strategic action plan developed on the problems of homelessness for helping the people who have lost their home due to any reasons like the disaster or the old age people who were thrown out of their hom e (Beebe et al., 2016). The vision of this program was minimizing the problems of all the individuals and families who have been experiencing homelessness. It also aims at developing methods and procedures for focusing into the districts progress in preventing and reducing homelessness, designing of proper care process for development of the appropriate mix of services, housing options for helping people as fast as possible from the problems of homelessness (Clark, 2016). The program has set its mission into preventing the repetitive occurrence of homelessness within the human and health services, which also includes individuals and families. The program is set for helping eligible, homeless individuals receiving health and social services. The goals have been set for developing an approach for keeping into focus the departmental progress indulged in monitoring, minimizing and fully ending the homelessness problems for Human and Health Services clientele. The marketing plan has been developed that will help in supporting agencies vision that is to assist homeless individuals securing their life. The strategies that could be adopted are- identifying the potential risk factors that will help in solving the problems, helping homeless people so that they can receive health and social services. The methods adopted include re- designing of the systems of care provided to families and individuals. The re- design involves cultural changes and generating permanent housing solutions for helping people of this problem. This redesigning program helps in fulfilling the companies mission and objectives of minimizing homelessness and giving needy people basic housing facility. The factors that are important and needs to be in focus are- permanent housing support solutions, cooperative work of different agencies for diminishing the problem (Knoper et al., 2016). The government should keep track of all the progress occurring and adjust the wrong situa tions. The collection of the data on a long-term basis can also help in accessing the outcomes. These data will be useful in estimating the extent of help that the agency needs to provide to people. It will serve the purpose of protecting health care of Americans and extending essential human services. The Department of Human Services and The Interagency Council on Homelessness will have to work together for maintaining the track and achieving the desired results. Therefore, the marketing plan is in compliance with the specific mission and objectives of U.S. Department of Health and Human services. (Barcevi ius Weishaupt, 2014). Reference Barcevi ius, E., Weishaupt, T. (2014).Assessing the open method of coordination: institutional design and national influence of EU social policy coordination. Palgrave Macmillan. Beebe, S. A., Bortz, C., Leiser, J. K. (2016). Community College Public Health Developing a Comprehensive 2-Year Degree Program.Pedagogy in Health Promotion,2(1), 54-59. Clark, A. (2016). HOMELESSNESS IN AMERICA. Knoper, L., Samosiuk, R., Lehman, M., Wanic, H., Lo Piccolo, M. (2016). Collaborative Platforms for Community Building: Responding to Issues of Homelessness in Grand Rapids through Design Thinking