• Increasing awareness and sensitivity of diversity in the workforce
  
  
• Serving as a resource to VHA leaders in the promotion of workforce diversity
  
  
• Identifying challenges to the advancement of diversity within the VHA and developing programs or initiatives to address the challenges and to change paradigms
  
  
• Establishing relationships with internal and community organizations/programs that enhance diversity in the VHA.
  

Strategic Aim                    

To reach for diversity through: respect, education, awareness, collaboration, and honesty
 

Operating Values

To realize true diversity, we all must be committed to upholding the VHA Strategic Goals. The Diversity Advisory Board believes in:

Trust
Respect
Excellence
Compassion
Commitment