{"id":216,"date":"2018-02-02T16:15:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T16:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/?p=216"},"modified":"2018-04-19T14:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T14:12:11","slug":"welcome-signs-embrace-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/welcome-signs-embrace-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Signs Embrace Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">NCSS is the process of adding welcome signs to the entrance\/lobby areas of all our facilities. Currently these signs are posted at the Main Office at 107 Fisher Pond Road. NCSS has always prided itself on being welcoming to everyone and these signs are a way of welcoming everyone from the community. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">The signs were a brainchild of the Diversity and Cultural Awareness Committee at NCSS. The committee is cross-divisional with a purpose to establish and maintain a respectful and welcoming environment for all persons served and employed, by raising awareness and increasing sensitivity to achieve optimal health.\u00a0 The journey to competence is outlined in the Agency\u2019s Diversity Plan with the four tier review &#8211; service deliver, organizational environment, human resources and public relations.\u00a0 The five key performance indicators involve ongoing education, visual representation, internal and community awareness, linguistics and a continued commitment to increasing awareness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/welcome-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"welcome\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/welcome-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/welcome.jpg 557w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCSS is the process of adding welcome signs to the entrance\/lobby areas of all our facilities. Currently these signs are posted at the Main Office at 107 Fisher Pond Road. NCSS has always prided itself on being welcoming to everyone and these signs are a way of welcoming everyone from the community. The signs were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}