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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Departmental Assessment

In July of 2024, the FIRST Center launched the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Departmental Assessment in partnership with the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) Metropolitan "Metro" Fire Chiefs Association. The Assessment was developed as part of Aim 2 of a FEMA-funded project to develop DEI FIRE: a research, assessment, and training toolkit that fire and rescue departments can use to address their expressed goal of becoming a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive industry.

DEI Departmental Assessment Webinar

This 45-minute webinar includes information on how the Assessment was created, how it can be used, and how fire and rescue departments can bring the assessment to their departments using a Survey Outreach Toolkit.

The webinar is led by FIRST Center Director, Dr. Jennifer Taylor; DEI Project Manager, Mobolawa Adio; and the 9th cohort of graduate students participating in the Firefighter Injury Research, Epidemiology, and Evaluation (FIRE) Fellowship. The webinar also includes testimony from Chief Don Lombardi of West Metro Fire Rescue in Colorado on how his department achieved an 85% response rate from membership on the Assessment in just two weeks.

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Webinar Sections: Scrub through the video to the relevant timestamp to view each section of the presentation.

  • 0:00 - Introduction to the webinar and FIRST Center DEI Portfolio (Dr. Jennifer Taylor)
  • 1:59 - Overview of webinar contents and introduction of the FIRE Fellows (Mobolawa Adio)
  • 3:19 - The importance of DEI to the fire and rescue service (Divya Chanda)
  • 9:30 - Steps for conducting the DEI Departmental Assessment in your department (Noah Southard)
  • 16:33 - Testimony from Chief Don Lombardi of West Metro Fire Rescue, CO (Don Lombardi)
  • 21:18 - Steps for conducting the DEI Departmental Assessment (continued) (Noah Southard) 
  • 24:17 - How to interpret your Assessment results from your final report (Ripon Hosain)
  • 29:43 - Making a plan to act on your data after you complete the assessment (Amruta Patil)
  • 36:40 - Q&A from the audience (Alex Fisher, Dr. Jennifer Taylor)

Sign Up for the DEI Departmental Assessment

Ready to sign up? Scan or click on the QR code that represents your department to access the sign-up form.

US Departments in the
Metro Fire Chiefs
Association

US Departments
not in the Metro

International,
non-US Departments


Questions? Contact DEI Project Manager Mobolawa Adio mja364@drexel.edu