Help wanted: volunteers to create a more inclusive Coast Guard

You can influence the future of the Coast Guard’s culture by participating in the CG_Ideas@Work challenge.

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion (CG-1D1) is drafting the FY24-29 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Strategic Plan and wants your input. As a member of the Coast Guard total workforce, what can you do to create a fair, inclusive, and empowering work environment where everyone thrives? What can your unit leadership do to support you and your shipmates?

The Coast Guard’s mission in valuing diversity is to build a positive and respectful work environment in which every individual can prosper and contribute to Coast Guard missions.

The CG’s current 2019-23 Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan had three lines of effort:

Develop D&I Acumen.
Strengthen leadership’s D&I awareness and accountability.
Build and maintain an inclusive total workforce.

Through the DIAP, the CG:

Published the Diversity and Inclusion Education and Awareness Program COMDTINST 5360.1.
Trained 90 D&I change agents.
Produced, with the RAND Corporation, the “Improving the Representation of Women and Racial/Ethnic Minorities Among United States Coast Guard Active-Duty Members Study.”
Established the Advisory Board on Women in the Coast Guard to make recommendations regarding the recruiting, retaining, advancing, and the wellbeing of women who serve in the Coast Guard.

CG_Ideas@Work is accessible from any personal device and access to the Coast Guard network is not required.

Email questions to the Coast Guard Innovation Program at Innovation@uscg.mil.

In the News: 

RAND completes URM study  > United States Coast Guard > My Coast Guard News (uscg.mil)

Resources:

CG_Ideas@Work

DEIA Challenge on CG_Ideas@Work

DHS Inclusive Diversity Strategic Plan

CG Innovation Program Inbox

Diversity-and-Inclusion-Action-Plan.pdf (uscg.mil)