ODI is to share with you the President’s recently-issued Executive Order on Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce (read more at ). VA’s ODI played a prominent role in the issuance of this Executive Order. Currently, the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are working to develop and issue a Government-wide Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan. As you may know, VA already has such a plan in place (visit ) which served as the model for the Government-wide Plan. The VA Diversity Council will revisit this plan to ensure that it aligns with the new Government-wide plan generated by this Executive Order. ODI was also pleased to participate in VA’s highly successful 2011 HR Conference in July and August. I want to thank each of you who attended and who stopped by our ODI booth. ODI staff served as facilitators for four of the courses offered at the Conference: Diversity Outreach and Recruitment; Attracting, Leading, and Retaining a Cross-Generational Workforce; Schedule A Authority for Hiring Individuals with Disabilities; and Reasonable Accommodation Procedures. If you missed any of these courses, or if you missed the Conference all together, see the article on ODI’s Training and Communications team below to learn more about how we can assist you with your training needs. We are also to share that VA was selected by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) to receive the Outstanding HACU Public Partner Award in recognition of the Department’s commitment to this important segment of our workforce diversity. To that end, ODI was proud to have HACU as a partner in its new National Diversity Internship Program through which we sponsored over 100 student interns from diverse postsecondary educational institutions. Read more about the HACU Award on page 6. On the of awards, the Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration will assist the Secretary in presenting the Diversity and Inclusion Excellence Awards and Alternative Dispute Resolution Excellence Awards at a formal ceremony to be held in conjunction with the Office of Resolution Management on October 21 in the G. V. Montgomery Veterans “Sonny” Conference Center, VA Central Office. Please mark your calendars and join us in recognizing our champions of diversity in VA, or check out the live broadcast on the VA Knowledge Network. Thank you as always for your continued commitment to diversity and inclusion in VA! ~Georgia Coffey, VA Deputy Assistant Secretary for Diversity and Inclusion Photograph of Georgia Coffey Commemorate NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
ODI is to share with you the President’s recently-issued Executive Order on Establishing a Coordinated Government-wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce (read more at ). VA’s ODI played a prominent role in the issuance of this Executive Order. Currently, the Office of Personnel Management, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are working to develop and issue a Government-wide Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan. As you may know, VA already has such a plan in place (visit ) which served as the model for the Government-wide Plan. The VA Diversity Council will revisit this plan to ensure that it aligns with the new Government-wide plan generated by this Executive Order. ODI was also pleased to participate in VA’s highly successful 2011 HR Conference in July and August. I want to thank each of you who attended and who stopped by our ODI booth. ODI staff served as facilitators for four of the courses offered at the Conference: Diversity Outreach and Recruitment; Attracting, Leading, and Retaining a Cross-Generational Workforce; Schedule A Authority for Hiring Individuals with Disabilities; and Reasonable Accommodation Procedures. If you missed any of these courses, or if you missed the Conference all together, see the article on ODI’s Training and Communications team below to learn more about how we can assist you with your training needs. We are also to share that VA was selected by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) to receive the Outstanding HACU Public Partner Award in recognition of the Department’s commitment to this important segment of our workforce diversity. To that end, ODI was proud to have HACU as a partner in its new National Diversity Internship Program through which we sponsored over 100 student interns from diverse postsecondary educational institutions. Read more about the HACU Award on page 6. On the of awards, the Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration will assist the Secretary in presenting the Diversity and Inclusion Excellence Awards and Alternative Dispute Resolution Excellence Awards at a formal ceremony to be held in conjunction with the Office of Resolution Management on October 21 in the G. V. “Sonny” Montgomery Veterans Conference Center, VA Central Office. Please mark your calendars and join us in recognizing our champions of diversity in VA, or check out the live broadcast on the VA Knowledge Network. Thank you as always for your continued commitment to diversity and inclusion in VA! ~Georgia Coffey, VA Deputy Assistant Secretary for Diversity and Inclusion Photograph of Georgia Coffey Commemorate NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
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