JEDI Learning Collaborative: Applying JEDI Principles to Workforce Recruitment and Retention
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Sabrina Edgington
sedgington@clinicians.org
The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved is offering a learning collaborative designed to increase awareness of organizational barriers contributing to workforce disparities, gain insight into strategies to improve retention for employees with diverse backgrounds, implement action steps to increase diversity in recruitment efforts, and adopt practices to mitigate bias in the hiring process.
Virtual sessions:
(All sessions are 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Eastern.)
October 1, 2024: Kick-off and Level Setting
- Describe how to make the most of the learning collaborative
- Meet peers who are also working to apply JEDI principles to their workforce recruitment and retention efforts
- Explore the current workforce climate and JEDI needs
October 8, 2024: Retention Strategies Part 1: Explore Your Workplace Culture
- Discuss factors that drive workplace culture (shared behavioral expectations and group norms)
- Identify traits of supportive and inclusive colleagues and supervisors and their roles in shaping a workplace culture that values JEDI
- Explore strategies that health centers have implemented to increase a culture of justice, equity, inclusion, and belonging at work
October 15, 2024: Retention Strategies Part 2: Explore Your Workplace Climate
- Discuss factors that drive workplace climate (individual perceptions of impact)
- Identify policies and practices that drive perceptions around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
- Develop onboarding strategies to help establish a work climate that values and works toward JEDI
October 22, 2024: Recruitment Strategies that Increase Workforce Diversity and Inclusion
- Explore the difference between hiring to increase diversity and the derogatory “diversity hire”
- Identify strategies that health centers have used to increase diversity in their pools of candidates
- Develop inclusive job announcements and position descriptions that will appeal to candidates from all backgrounds
October 29, 2024: Mitigating Bias in the Hiring Process
- Explore common hiring practices that are vulnerable to bias
- Learn strategies that health centers have implemented to mitigate bias in the interviewing process
- Develop guidelines for evaluating candidates
Eligible applicants are clinicians and healthcare leaders that are interested in workforce recruitment and retention.
The program is offered at no cost to participants.
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