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Outreach Strategy

National Hispanic Outreach Strategy

Vision: EPA's National Hispanic Outreach Strategy promotes opportunities for Hispanic Americans in program development and delivery, education, funding, and employment through improved partnerships with Latino stakeholders.

The Strategy rests on four pillars:

Employment and Professional Advancement

Goals

  1. Develop recruitment strategies which identify EPA as an employer committed to fair and equal employment opportunity, and as an organization involved in issues of importance to the Hispanic community. The Agency's Diversity Actions Plans will include specific initiatives to ensure that qualified Hispanic American applicants are identified and recruited.

  2. Ensure that Hispanic American employees have an equal opportunity to participate in professional development programs and opportunities by removing any barriers to such participation.

  3. Adopt policies and procedures that promote the accountability of EPA managers and supervisors for achieving equal employment opportunity and fairness, particularly in critical management areas such as succession planning for senior positions in the Agency's workforce.

Education Pipeline

Goals

  1. Increase the percentage of EPA funding to institutions or programs that serve Hispanic American students at all educational levels through all appropriate means.

  2. Increase the ability of Hispanic Serving Educational Institutions (HSEIs) to compete more effectively in EPA grant programs.

  3. Develop automated systems for the Agency to track its performance on funding of HSEIs.

Economic Opportunities

Goals

  1. Increase outreach efforts to Hispanic-owned firms in order to expand their awareness of contracting opportunities with EPA.

  2. Broaden access to EPA financial and technical assistance

    3. for community groups and other non-governmental organizations that serve the Hispanic community.

  3. Develop post-award tracking systems for monitoring financial resources to Hispanic businesses and identify any barriers to awarding procurements.

Community Partnerships

Goals

  1. Build effective partnerships with Hispanic organizations and communities to raise environmental awareness and to be responsive to the environmental and public health priorities of the Hispanic community.

  2. Ensure effective communication of EPA program objectives and accomplishments by making widespread use of Spanish language documents and Hispanic media outlets.

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