Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB)

Learning Opportunity: Visit to Fenway Health

At the end of last year, members of the Duffy team took a trip over the bridge to meet with colleagues at Fenway Health in downtown Boston. Fenway, known for its expertise in providing care to LGBTQIA+ patients, has been a resource and partner to the Duffy team for several years.

After a tour of their state-of-the-art facility, members from both teams had the opportunity to sit together and share ideas and strategies for becoming more equitable organizations, creating safe spaces, and just practices for both staff and the individuals in our care. We are grateful to our partners at Fenway for welcoming us and sharing so many wonderful ideas and resources with our team!

Deepening Our DEI Work: Consulting with Rosa Lee Hunter

For the past several months, Rosa Lee Hunter has been supporting Duffy’s DEIB Committee as we deepen our work within and across the organization. Rosa has been consulting with organizations like Duffy for over 20 years, with a focus on diversity, inclusion and equity through the lenses of organizational change, leadership development, and employee empowerment.

In her work with Duffy, Rosa has facilitated five story-boarding sessions with Duffy teams, using technology to elicit anonymous responses in real-time, facilitating conversations, and creating a safe space for staff input about our organizational culture as it relates to DEIB.

“I give credit to the staff for being active participants, who willingly shared both their lived experiences at Duffy and their hopes for what might be accomplished as the DEIB work continues and takes hold,” says Rosa. “Their hopes were to draw on the precepts of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to create spaces of Belonging within the organization, with Duffy’s partners and within the broader community.”

Rosa will report results of story-boarding sessions to the committee, who will also share them with leadership and our Board of Directors to formulate next steps in our DEIB Action Plan. We are grateful to Rosa for guiding us in this work.

DEI Presentation at the Community Health Institute

Each spring, the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers organizes a three-day conference for staff from community health centers across the state to gather and share innovative practices and programs. Duffy Health Center’s DEIB Committee Co-Chairs were selected to present at this year’s Community Health Institute after submitting a proposal for a session entitled, “Building DEI-B from the Ground Up.” Congratulations to Sara Grambach and Emily Hildebrant!