A message from King County’s Learning & Development team

To reach our True North – a welcoming community where every person can thrive – we must achieve racial justice. “We Are Racially Just” is a core value of King County. Through personal testimonies from King County employees, the We Are Racially Just: Our King County Values at Work eLearning course explores what it means to be racially just and helps to familiarize employees with King County’s Pro-Equity and Anti-Racist actions and identify behaviors that can support these actions at work. This training helps to ensure that each of us understands what it means to be racially just and what we can do in our own work to advance racial justice at King County.

We would like to take a moment to acknowledge all the folks who came together to make this eLearning possible. This was truly a collaborative effort by Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EIB) and HR Managers, the Racially Just Competency Steering Committee, staff from the Office of Equity, Racial, and Social Justice (OERSJ), the OERSJ Advisory Committee, the Workforce Equity team, and many others who contributed countless hours, numerous reviews, and many, many conversations. We’d like to celebrate the work and contributions of our Learning & Development team, our narrators who lent their voices to the eLearning, and all the folks who provided feedback during the development process.

We would also like to show our gratitude to the King County employees who allowed their anonymous stories to be included in the eLearning and the employees who were interviewed for the We Are Racially Just Value video. A special thanks to the folks who helped to ensure that our training was accessible to King County employees with disabilities, our NEOGOV admins, and the folks involved in developing and coordinating the rollout process on the Employee Engagement and King County Communications teams. Finally, a huge shoutout to all the employees who have taken the eLearning and chosen to continue to engage in other learning opportunities across the County to deepen their understanding of racial justice and racial equity.

If taking this eLearning is still on your To Do list, employees who have regular computer access at work should complete the eLearning by December 31, 2023. Those without regular computer access have until September 30, 2024. You can access this NEOGOV eLearning here: We Are Racially Just: Our King County Values at Work. Thank you again to everyone involved in creating a welcoming community at King County where every person can thrive.