We are proud to share with you our draft King County Equity and Social Justice Strategic Plan, 2016-2022. This plan, our first for Equity and Social Justice (ESJ), builds on the good work that we have been doing in ESJ and pushes us to become even more thoughtful, strategic and effective. This Plan also lays out the values that we have co-created with employees and community partners and addresses the need to be inclusive, collaborative, responsive, adaptive and people-focused. Fundamentally, we are moving towards becoming a racially just organization.

Our ESJ strategies as One King County are to invest upstream and where needs are greatest, in employees and in community partnerships. And we will do this with accountable and transparent leadership.

We have also developed a draft preliminary Implementation Plan for this Strategic Plan, which will guide our work through 2018. If you have thoughts and ideas about this plan and its implementation, contact your ESJ Inter-Branch Team representative or the Office of Equity and Social Justice by August 10.