The Community Service Council provides leadership in community based planning and mobilization of resources to address health and human service needs in much of Eastern Oklahoma. Over the past eighteen months the Council has analyzed many global, national, and local developments, their interfacings with each other, and their possible impact on the future. This analysis will help guide the Council’s strategic thinking for itself and for the broader community.

The analysis reveals that the developments and forces in play are so powerful and numerous that it is likely a "perfect storm" effect may be imminent or possibly upon us in some aspects. This conclusion led the Council to additional study which indicated researchers focused on an individual critical issue (e.g., education, labor force, aging, immigration, food and water supplies) commonly predict some version of a "perfect storm" of unprecedented challenges affecting their particular critical issue. Based on these predictions, the Council took a second, closer look at this storm effect, which will possibly be comprised of converging, individual perfect storms, and concluded we may be in for a "super" perfect storm.