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A Ready and Resilient Workforce for the Department of Homeland Security: Protecting America's Front Line reviews current workforce resilience efforts, identifies gaps, and provides recommendations for a 5-year strategy to improve DHSTogether, the current DHS workforce resilience program. This report stresses the importance of strong leadership, communication, measurement, and evaluation in the organization and recommends content for a 5-year plan that will promote centralized strategic direction and resource investment to improve readiness and resilience at the department.

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Description

An ad hoc committee will conduct a study and prepare a report on how to improve the resilience (physical and mental well-being) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) workforce, identifying the elements of a 5-yr strategic plan for the DHSTogether program. The report will build on existing analysis of current capabilities, and best-known practices and gaps in current resilience programs Specifically the committee will:


· Explore existing tools for improved workforce resilience, including a review of employer resilience programs which includes, but not exclusively, military and law enforcement.
o Assess current policies, programs, activities, and resources that address employee resilience across DHS

· Identify resilience gaps in the DHS workforce and recommend activities to close the gaps.

· Develop the elements of a 5-year strategic plan with year-by-year recommended activities to close those gaps.
o Priority activities will be identified based on potential impact, to enable DHS to make choices based on the value of the activity.

· Identify measures and metrics to track continuous improvements and to mark successful implementation of DHSTogether and the improving resilience of the DHS workforce.

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Committee Membership Roster Comments

Dr. John M. Violanti was added on 11/7/12.

Sponsors

Department of Homeland Security

Staff

Amy Geller

Lead

Major units and sub-units

Health and Medicine Division

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Institute of Medicine

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Board on Health Sciences Policy

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