PCG’s Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Sophia Thwaites, recently launched a new internal initiative to increase awareness of and engagement in organizational efforts to advance a diverse, inclusive, and engaged workforce culture. Marking Our DEI Journey is a new quarterly letter of reflection to employees that Sophia introduced earlier this quarter to encourage a dialogue around the Office of DEI’s key strategic priority areas, like Disability Workplace Inclusion, which was the focus of her first letter to the PCG community. Our Corporate Communications team connected with Sophia at the beginning of March—which also happens to be Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month—to learn more about Disability Workplace Inclusion.

In September 2021, the Children’s Bureau (CB) of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) released the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS) Technical Bulletins (TBs) #7 (CCWIS Technical Assistance, Self-Assessment Tools, and Monitoring Reviews) and #8 (CCWIS Data Exchange Standards), providing important tools to help title IV-E agencies think about the evolving landscape of the CCWIS journey.

We are proud to share that University Instructors, a Public Consulting Group Company, has partnered with ETS, a nonprofit research, learning, and assessments organization, to launch the Praxis^® Learning Paths™ program.

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP), signed into law on March 11, 2021, provides relief for Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) programs with scheduled, enhanced federal financing participation to offset state expenditures.