Holding Your Ground: Sustaining DEIBA Commitment in Challenging Times

The one-hour session will address the current DEIBA landscape facing human service organizations and provide practical strategies for sustaining diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and accessibility commitments amid external pressures. The session will include:

• Welcome, framing, and participant introductions
• climate and why it matters for human service DEIBA• Context on the current organizations
• Strategies for holding your ground: values-grounding, stakeholder communication, and operational durability
• Small group discussion and Q&A
• Key takeaways and next steps