First Facility: The Museum of Science and Industry
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is a non-profit organization. The agency’s goals and objectives are to introduce scientific and industrial concepts into the lives of average people. Specifically, the agency wishes to introduce these topics to children so that they will have exposure to these topics at a young age. They hope that through this exposure, children will choose to follow a career path in one of these topics. This differs from the health club and CRCE because both of these places aim to enrich the lives of different audiences through physical activity instead of intellectual growth. The agency is funded through membership fees and other fund-raising things throughout the museum, such as food courts, gift shops, and individual paying activities. Similarly, the health club and CRCE both charge fees for their services, but any extra money they make will go into paychecks, while any extra money made by the museum will be placed back into the museum.
The museum specifically targets children in its mission statement, but believes that the information they provide is useful to people of all ages. This differs from the other two because CRCE specifically targets college-aged people, while the health club generally targets the elderly. The key elements that set the museum apart from other agencies include its size, its collection, and its mission. The museum is one of the largest in the nation, and includes thousands of artifacts such as the only German U-Boat within the United States. Also, the founding ideals of the museum are to bring seemingly fantastic ideas onto levels where average people are able to see how they work. The key elements that set CRCE apart are that it is set in a convenient location, most importantly, and that it offers amenities that would not otherwise be available to students, such as a water slide. The one thing that really sets the health club apart is that it is partnered with a hospital, so it is able to work directly with the patient’s unique needs.
The major strength of the agency is that it is the only one of its kind, so people are drawn to it to see things which they would otherwise be unable to see. A weakness of the organization is that the entrance and parking fees are very expensive, so not everyone is always able to attend, but they offer free admission days in an attempt to remedy this situation. A strength of the health club is that it has very modern facilities, but similarly to the museum, a weakness is that it serves a specific socioeconomic group and cannot market itself to lower-income people. A strength of CRCE is that it provides an outlet for students to work off stress in a convenient location, but a weakness is that it is not quite large enough to accommodate the number of students who would like to be able to use it, making it a generally crowded place to be. The museum definitely fulfills its goals and objectives. While there is no concrete way to tell if children who visit the museum will go on to become scientists, they are
definitely being exposed to new concepts that will broaden their image of what they can accomplish. Similarly, both the health club and CRCE provide a much-needed service to their clientele.
Second Facility: Therapeutic Recreation Services
The goal of the Advocate Good Shepherd Health Center is to provide state of the art therapeutic services to its members using qualified staff members and a friendly atmosphere as part of an outpatient service with the nearby Good Shepherd Hospital. Compared to the other services our group picked out: The Museum of Science and Industry, and CRCE, Advocate Health Care is primarily concerned with serving those rehabilitating their health, and also can charge a fee to members wishing to work out. Clients are typically older and can afford these services. Advocate Health care is funded in a variety of ways. The first is through state tax dollars that go to the hospital. The second way is through
membership fees and insurance companies that cover certain rehabilitation services. Compared to the other two facilities, which are heavily involved in tax dollars and student fees, this organization has a much larger privately funded aspect to it.
Advocate Health Care is available to all over the age of sixteen, but it primarily serves the middle aged to the elderly. This is because these demographics are much more likely to have wear and tear on their bodies and require rehabilitation services. Compared to the other two organizations this is a much older age group, as the museum serves children, and CRCE is primarily a service for ages 18-22. This agency is set apart from others because of its unbelievable workout programs and accomplished staff members. Those two components draw a variety of patrons because they know that the service those two aspects provide are keys to recuperation. Health programs include water rehabilitation, weight training, and endurance training for those
recovering from ailments. The trainers on staff were particularly impressive, with degrees from high ranking institutions and graduate school work. CRCE’s major draw is its location and facilities offered to students, and the Museum offers tangible, scientific knowledge to youngsters to keep them off the streets and engaged in the magic of science.
Advocate Health Care’s greatest strength is that it provides state of the art equipment. The pool was recently redone, and all cardio and weight training equipment is connected to a computer network that creates and monitors one’s workouts. These machines make rehabilitation an intimate and accessible process for those with varying levels or workout expertise, it also is a major draw to have workouts monitored by the machines themselves, as it motivates members to complete their programs and check their status online. One of the major weaknesses is its inclusiveness to a particular socioeconomic class. Barrington, IL, is one of the most affluent suburbs in America, which automatically excludes certain groups from being able to utilize such services. It kind of goes against an accessible brand of leadership, and does deprive some residents of Barrington from having access to wonderful facilities. I think the organization DOES fulfill its goals, because its mission statement is not to provide affordable healthcare, but healthcare and rehabilitation for those who can afford it. It does this very well for the groups who it is concerned with serving, offering excellent staff, programs, and facilities to meet the needs of those its leisure is intended for.
Third Facility: CRCE
Just like any other campus recreation their main purpose is to make students get involved.
More, CRCE care for student’s health and how they spend their leisure time. It showed similarity with health center in that, both of the agencies focused on the health of members of the agency. CRCE is funded by student’s recreation fee. The bill is billed to every students on campus and is not optional. Unlike CRCE, the museum of science and industry is ran by entrance fee. Since it is a non-profit museum, it does not try to maximize their profit over the fees. Advocate good shepherd hospital and fitness center is a more of a private agency although it is funded by tax in some part, agency is ran mostly by fees that is collected from patients.
CRCE is mostly for a student on campus. But faculties and visitors are also served by the agency. Also people from the community could use the facility with fee if they have a student to endorse their identity. Unlike CRCE where it is used only for certain members, museum is for everyone. Advocate good shepherd hospital and fitness center is like CRCE in ways that it is accessible to only certain people who pay for their memberships or fees. CRCE is unique in that it is served mainly for students. Both museum and Advocate good shepherd hospital and fitness center serves public. Museum is unique in that its purpose is to teach and educate the public. While Advocate good shepherd hospital is unique in that its purpose is therapeutic.
What are the key program elements that set this agency apart from others?
The strength of agency as a leisure service provider for CRCE is that it is located in very convenient location. It is right next to the bus stop and is located south part of the campus. It is very near to PAR, FAR and allen hall which gives close access to students live near these dorm. But it lacks the size and equipments compare to the ARC. Compare to CRCE, museum tries to invest every penny on improvement of their facility but on the other sides, since it is non-profit museum, it requires donations and funds beside fees which may limit the growth and investment in facility. CRCE fulfill the purpose, since statistic shows that a lot of students around campus are using the facility and they enjoy the service provided by the facility.
After analyzing the many different aspects of our three leisure service organizations, we were able to learn that there are specific purposes of many different organizations. They can serve people of different ages and with different needs. It is important that there are a multitude of leisure services available so that a larger population will continuously be served. Although these three leisure services serve people from many different walks of life, they ultimately have the same goal. This common goal is to better the lives of the specific individuals targeted.
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