To recruit and retain staff, data has shown that it is critical your practice culture is centered around values such as trust, open communication, and support. In addition to investing in your staff’s personal and professional growth, creating a sense of belonging for each team member goes beyond offering specialized training and personality tests.
JOURNEY FOR TEAMS provides a pathway for veterinary professionals to deepen knowledge of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and foster the advancement of DEI in veterinary workplaces. To support this purpose, Journey for Teams provides ongoing practical, actionable, and impactful resources and educational modules—all designed with busy veterinary workplaces in mind!
blendvet is the nation’s first veterinary-curated DEIB training curriculum building stronger practices & healthier culture through research, discussion, workshops, self-paced learning and one-on-one consulting -All coupled with personal life connections to provide a uniquely tailored approach for the veterinary professional!
Vet Med Interconnected (VMI) Organizations – Organizations with missions built around a DEIB-related focus. They meet regularly to share information, learn from, and support each other, and amplify each other’s voices and events.
Navigating Diversity and Inclusion in Veterinary Medicine
Edited by: Lisa M Greenhill, Kauline Cipriani Davis, Patricia M. Lowrie, and Sandra F. Amass
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves.
AVMA ‘Brave Space’ Certificate Program
“…a self-paced learning curriculum that teaches participants how to gain deeper understandings of the people around us and create healthier, safer, more inclusive veterinary teams, practices, and organizations.” Free for AVMA members.
NOTE: The information contained in these self-help documents is not to be used as a substitute for professional care. Neither the authors nor the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association (GVMA) assume liability for injury incurred by following the information presented in these self-help resources.
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