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Public Service Employee
Appreciation Week
The first week of May is designated Public Service Employee Appreciation Week and this team celebrated all week long.
We had a successful picnic gathering, sent words of appreciation on our virtual bulletin board, received accolades from the directors office, rocked out with our DYS office playlist on Spotify and celebrated ourselves with mid day yoga. All activities were engaging and fun to share with the team.
You are 100% appreciated every day and one week is not enough time to show you how valuable you are to our organization. Thank you for all that you do!
DYS Central Office Unit Highlights
ICYMI - All week, the EAC sent out highlights about each Central Office unit and we have them here if you would like to revisit any of them.
Employee of the Month - April
Employee of the Month - April
Yetunde (Yetti) Kuforiji, RN, MSN, FNP-C
Director of Medical Operations - BHMS
Yetti is friendly, dedicated, and loyal. She is the mom of two sets of twins. Yetti shared her husband's exact birthdate, and they also got married on their birthdays. Yetti loves watching African movies and cooking. She is a lover of God and family.
Yetti and Sanctuary
Democracy
Yetti exemplifies leadership through her abilities of compromise, being respectful and valuing each persons opinion. Her commitment as a role model and as a leader to her staff is truly commendable, as she demonstrates on a daily basis.
Emotional Intelligence
Yetti embodies honesty evidenced within all her interactions and communications with various disciplines. I personally see her in multiple roles, in multiple meetings and in each and every instance she is expressing herself openly and honestly.
Social Responsibility
Yetti has the ability to see a situation with an ethical lens and the voice to be part of the solution. She is always on alert and uses her role as medical operation coordinator to provide clarity on how discussion/decisions may affect her medical clinics.
Open Communication
I believe communication in the foundation to many of the Sanctuary commitments. I also believe transparency and honesty are also necessary. Yetti amazes me at times, by her ability to know how to respond truthfully at the moment, her thoughts, emotions and the basis for how she arrived at her decision/thought.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
By Fitzgerald Clark, DYS Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Sanctuary and EDI
The Sanctuary theme of the month for May is Social Responsibility. The idea of a shared responsibility to each other, that contributes to the creation of a healthy, positive and just community is inextricably linked to the values of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
Embodying Social Responsibility requires a commitment to being empathetic enough so that we understand how others are impacted by what we do and the moral courage to stand up for change when needed, to ensure that our workspaces and youth centers are not leaving some of us behind.
At CDHS our motto is, “We're the people who help people.” Sometimes that may mean that we have to help each other do what is right. Empathy gives us the insight to see what is needed. Moral courage gives us the strength to not turn a blind eye but instead to stand up and speak out for change.
Thought for the month:
Practicing Diversity and Inclusion is widening our vision of who is included in the idea of “all of us” and welcoming them.
Commitment to Social Responsibility
Commitment to Social Responsibility
May Theme
May Theme
Text courtesy of Elisa C. Hicks - MSW, MA, CJSP
NCCHC Coordinator, BHMS
The Commitment to Social Responsibility is a delicate balance between the individual and the community; personal rights and responsibilities versus the community's rights and responsibilities. The issues of social justice and moral safety are at the heart of trauma, including ongoing traumatic experiences, and the restoration of a sense of a "just world" is a critical component of healing.
Social responsibility asks us to recognize that fairly distributing individual and social justice is the key to having a peaceful, nonviolent, and safe organization. We must always balance our individual needs with the responsibility we have to our communities, as well as recognize and accept that all of the time we are either part of a solution or part of a problem. There are no bystanders in social interactions, and social responsibility relies on true and honest demonstration of the Golden Rule.
Some tips to keep in mind:
We act for the benefit of the larger society or community around us.
We are accountable and responsible for out own actions and words.
We maintain connection with others through our social interactions.
May
May
Tiffany Maestas
Lori Meyers
Heidi Bauer
Jenny Christian
Jeremy Pierce
Matice Garcia
Diane Skufca
Brian Bungam
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