Accanto EDI Strategic Visioning Retreat 2024-2025 by

Accanto Mission: To provide exceptional, individualized care leading to recovery from eating disorders.

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EDI Council Mission:

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We believe our unique perspectives and diversity of training, background, and job function enhance our community of care, creating the most optimal, dynamic, and collaborative environment for everyone. We celebrate the different abilities, races, body sizes, and sexual orientations our staff and clients hold.

Accanto Vision: Our vision is a world of peaceful relationships with food, weight, and body image, where everyone with an eating disorder can experience recovery.

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Accanto Values: Passion, Respect, Commitment, Collaboration

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Percentage of FTE at each site designated to staff EDI work.

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Comms Department person has dedicated time to EDI (10-20%)

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More effective resource sharing.

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Dedicated EDI site coordinator who will be compensated for their time

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Engaging SD/EDs in promoting EDI

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have some OP groups that are sliding scale/scholarships for clients with marginalized identities to increase access to care

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Increased accessibility at each site through the accessibility audit.

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Pay Equity/Transparency

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LEAD Initiative - bring it back, focus on culturally responsive leadership, make it mandatory and much more interactive

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Culturally Responsive Leadership

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Reconcile pay rates for current employees with new hires so that longevity in the org does not lead to less pay.

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More live interactive diversity training

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Transparency in pay bands for each role by region - and with attention to demographics of those hired into the role

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Clearer pathways for advancement across all disciplines

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More support from EDs and Sr. Leadership to promote/support EDI efforts (e.g., Slide at Town Halls)

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Taking existing diversity & inclusion trainings and making them live, active/interactive

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Dedicating time and space for frontline staff to complete mandatory trainings

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Check out TJC Equity Standards that were updated in 12/23

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Providing care to all persons with sensitivity and understanding of SES, cultural background, body types, gender/identity, etc.

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More early consultation with EDI Council reps when making significant decisions to ensure inclusion and diversity are highlighted in that decision making.

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Increasing access to both trainings and affinity group support for front line staff

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Making mandatory microaggression training scalable and meaningful (somatically and cognitively) and ensure that lives in the org so that it can be repeated annually without losing the meaning/significance.

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Making education hours and affinity groups accessible to all staff regardless of role

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Trainings for managers around culturally responsive leadership and culturally humble practice/awareness building. This should be an ongoing self-inquiry and aspect of evaluation for managers (through 360 evals for example)

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Increase awareness of promotion of majority culture [potentially to reduce discomfort with diversity?] (e.g., Christianity is highlighted more than other religions)

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Engage site management/leadership to advocate to make each site truly ADA-compliant

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Financial Help/Scholarships

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Having a social worker that help families be able to afford eating disorder treatment.

Help families able to afford medications.

EDI rep on each organization-wide project committee

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Providing targeted training that goes beyond surface-level understanding by enhancing case study learning and incorporating small group sessions.

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Reinstate/Add regional case managers - this will help assist clients with needs and also reduce burden for therapists

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Have someone from the facilities dept. join the EDI Council and remain actively involved.

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Look into assistance for transportation beyond public bus routes (e..g, transportation vouchers)

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Create a unified community of collaboration across all sites

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Process and training for handling microaggression and conflict management (staff v staff, client v staff, client v client)

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Implicit Bias Test/Project Implicit

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Have every employee take the Bias Tests. There are specific ones that we can have them take: Race, Weight, and Gender Care. This can be done with onboarding and yearly trainings.

increase options to learn about burn out, resiliency, the benefits that learning has on resiliency to support a TIC workplace

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Dedicated EDI site coordinator who will be honored in some way for their time (from "possible solutions")

janeengingrich — 2024-09-04 18:52:40 UTC

Comms Department person has dedicated time to EDI (10-20%)

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Engaging SD/EDs in promoting EDI (moved to Strategy #1 - flesh out)

janeengingrich — 2024-09-17 15:00:53 UTC

LEAD Initiative - bring it back, focus on culturally responsive leadership, make it mandatory and much more interactive (from solutions column)

janeengingrich — 2024-09-17 15:05:18 UTC

Reconcile pay rates for current employees with new hires so that longevity in the org does not lead to less pay.

janeengingrich — 2024-09-17 15:07:40 UTC

Have some outpatient groups that are sliding scale/scholarships for clients with marginalized identities to increase access to care (from "possible solutions" column)

janeengingrich — 2024-09-17 15:09:50 UTC

Taking existing diversity & inclusion trainings and making them live, active/interactive (from "possible solutions")

janeengingrich — 2024-09-17 15:10:31 UTC

Dedicating time and space for frontline staff to complete mandatory trainings (from "possible solutions")

janeengingrich — 2024-09-17 15:13:07 UTC

Comms Department person has dedicated time to EDI (10-20%)

janeengingrich — 2024-09-17 15:15:55 UTC

Increased accessibility at each site (moved to strategy #2)

janeengingrich — 2024-09-17 15:20:31 UTC

Develop plan to help site coordinators and leaders on the advisory council to feel more supported in those roles.

janeengingrich — 2024-09-18 14:16:20 UTC

Balance Accanto leadership involvement in EDI work while honoring the grassroots base of the work.

janeengingrich — 2024-09-18 14:23:44 UTC

Leaders consistently joining would create a sense of engagement versus oversight.

Mandatory training around microaggressions and weight bias for all staff

janeengingrich — 2024-09-18 20:23:34 UTC

How to turn over furniture so we can get some that is more accessible for people in larger bodies.

janeengingrich — 2024-10-01 18:39:00 UTC

Adapt lodging units to have more options for people in larger bodies.

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not sure if fits with 'accessing programs and services' - how about hosting a larger body clothing swap/drive (anonymous - to limit comparisons) maybe we could even sharpie out all sizes (#s)!

Create templates for all sites to use to save time for individual sites

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Essentially, this would involve creating things for EDI as a group to share and Site Coordinators can just add in the pieces for their region. (i.e. one virtual bulletin board for EDI that people collaborate on with sections for Ohio, MN, WA, NC, etc. - less work for each site so more time can be spent on our in-person boards, recruiting more EDI engagement, and other items.)

EDI Council Mission:

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