Equity in the Workplace

This training opportunity is for public health professionals who want to integrate principles of equity, inclusion and diversity into the policies, practices and progress of their team, unit or organization. The workshops are interactive in nature, and the focus is on practical knowledge and skills that participants can apply within the workplace.

These workshops were originally created for staff at the North Carolina Division of Public Health, but they are also relevant to professionals at local health departments in North Carolina.

Each of these three-hour workshops addresses a different topic related to equity in the workplace.

• Introduction to Organizational Equity: This workshop focuses on taking equity principles from conceptualization to implementation. Attendees will focus on turning equity goals into measurable processes and outcomes, formulating related evaluation plans, and identifying necessary structures for accountability.
• Analyzing Workplace Policies and Practices for Equity: This workshop focuses on using existing policies and practices within participants’ organizations to identify opportunities to improve organizational equity.
• Developing an Equity Action Plan: This workshop is designed for participants that have begun preliminary conversations and/or data collection to assess equity in their respective organizations. They will work to identify SMARTIE goals, necessary action steps and measures of success. Participants should expect to complete this workshop with an outline of a potential equity action plan for their organization.
• Co-Creating a Culture of Belonging: Participants of this workshop will evaluate their existing organizational structure to identify effective methods for establishing sustainable workplace norms that are informed and championed by all members of the organization.

For each workshop, an optional “office hour” session is also available. During office hours, participants have the opportunity to discuss the workshop content with faculty.

Location

These trainings are 100% virtual (on Zoom).

Workshop Schedule

Participants are encouraged to register for all four workshops if their schedule allows, or they can register for individual workshops.

• Introduction to Organizational Equity (Friday, March 8 at 9 a.m.-noon)
  Optional office hours: Friday, March 8 at 1-2 p.m.
• Analyzing Workplace Policies and Practices for Equity (Thursday, March 21 at 9 a.m.-noon)
  Optional office hours: Thursday, March 28 at 10-11 a.m.
• Developing an Equity Action Plan (Friday, April 12 at 9 a.m.-noon)
  Optional office hours: Friday, April 12 at 1-2 p.m.
• Co-Creating a Culture of Belonging (Friday, April 26 at 9 a.m.-noon)
  Optional office hours: Thursday, May 30 at 9-10 a.m.

These trainings were created specifically for public health professionals at the North Carolina Division of Public Health who want to integrate principles of equity, inclusion and diversity into the policies, practices, and progress of their team, unit, or organization, and are not mandatory.

These trainings are not intended to, and should not be understood to, solicit or require an employee or applicant to endorse or opine about beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles regarding matters of contemporary political debate or social action as a condition of employment and are not intended to, and should not be understood to, solicit or require an employee or applicant to describe their actions in support of, or in opposition to, those beliefs, affiliations, ideals, or principles.

The training workshops are interactive in nature, and the focus is on practical knowledge and skills that participants can apply within the workplace while respecting the dignity of others, acknowledging the right of others to express differing opinions, and the right to freedom of speech and association.

These trainings may be provided by contractors or partners on behalf of the North Carolina Division of Public Health and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. If a contractor or partner responds to a participant’s questions pertaining to the concepts listed in N.C.G.S. §§ 126-14.5(c), the North Carolina Division of Public Health and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services does not promote or endorse the contractor’s or partner’s responses to those questions.