Diversity and Inclusion Digest

About the Program

Category: Personnel Management, Employment and Training (Best in Category)

Year: 2020

The Department of Human Resources, Talent Development Division designed and launched a new interactive quarterly newsletter to provide a wide range of information, resources and guided activities for the departmental diversity and inclusion (D&I) champions. The newsletter serves as a tool to capture and share ideas and stories about things that are happening in our community, both in the workplace and in the bigger community that we serve. We utilize human interest topics, delivered in multiple formats, to engage our workforce focusing on themes that are both relevant but also help us to reach our D&I goals in the future. To uphold our commitment to valuing diversity and practicing inclusion, we must first address some of the basic challenges of getting the message out to almost 18,000 employees at over 100 different locations and serving an extremely diverse population. Creating the “D&I Digest” helped us build a bridge to get information to those carrying out the important inclusion work on the front lines of County services. The “D&I Digest” offers insightful examples on inclusion, connection and engagement using the digital medium as an intermediary to facilitate discussion and empathy building.