Lovely Lake Views

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boats at a dock with mountains in the distance

Park Maintenance Worker Omar Torres snapped a photo of a peaceful sunset at Lake Morena County Park in Campo.

Share your fabulous photos! If you see a coworker getting the job done, a beautiful sunset over your office or a wonderful County program being offered—snap a pic and submit it to communications@sdcounty.ca.gov. Be sure to include information about the photo and your name. One image will be posted to InSite every week and may be shared on social media.

See more of Your View photos.

Rewind: Listening Session on Equity and Belonging

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Watch the Rewind video here.

Please note: the survey mentioned in this post closed on Jan. 26.

Did you miss the D&I Executive Council’s listening session on equity and belonging on Jan. 19? Employees can still share their experiences and suggestions through a survey and watch the recorded event above.

Take the anonymous survey now. It will close at 11:59 p.m., Jan. 26.

The D&I Executive Council will review all submissions and host a follow-up session on Feb. 2. The focus of this session will be to report back what was shared at the Jan. 19 session and proposed actions.

There is a poll on the InSite homepage asking if you’d prefer the second session to be from noon to 1 p.m. or 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 2. Additional details, including the time of the event, will post to InSite soon.

Still Time to Volunteer to Help Point-in-Time Homeless Count

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There is still time to sign up to take part in a worthy effort to help fight homelessness―the Jan. 26 annual Point-in-Time Count!

Monday, Jan. 23 is the deadline to sign up to help in the count, which is scheduled to take place from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 26.

Each year, the Point in Time Count begins our region’s effort to count the number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night of the year—to talk with them, collect information to help us understand the scope of the homeless problem, people’s circumstances and their needs. This count also helps our region apply for federal and state funding to help serve this vulnerable population and measure our efforts to reduce homelessness.

So far, more than 200 County employees have signed up, but with one of the largest counties in the country, organizers are looking for lots more help in several locations. Last year, more than 1,400 volunteers helped in the count.

You can be part of that effort by volunteering a few hours of your time—paid for and on the clock, thanks to approval by the County Board of Supervisors.

To take part, County employees must receive the OK from their supervisors, and then register at the “We All Count, Annual Homeless Census” website.

If you’d like to help, review the FAQs. Then get approval from your supervisor via the supervisor approval form. From there, you just sign up.

After you have signed up, you will receive an email receipt for this event. In the email there will be a link to a training for you to review from The Regional Task Force on Homelessness, which is leading the local point-in-time effort with the WeALLCount campaign.

Volunteers will be asked to arrive at their deployment locations by 3:45 a.m. to give themselves time to become familiar with a mobile counting app that helps us conduct a more accurate count and receive your count area map.

The 2023 count, as directed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will again entail an “engaged” survey-based approach, where people on the streets will be surveyed as they are encountered, rather than just an observational count.

This will be the ninth year that County employees have volunteered to take part in the count. The Regional Task Force on Homelessness reported last year that the 2022 count found 8,427 people experiencing homelessness—a number they said should be considered a minimum—across the county, a 10% increase from the 2020 count. No count was taken in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Members of the public can also join the count. If you know family or friends who would like to participate, they can sign up to volunteer.

So, if you’d like to help make a difference in addressing this important issue, please volunteer.

County Participates in MLK Jr. Day Parade

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The San Diego County Sheriff's Department, Probation, Office of Equity and Racial Justice and the African American Association of County Employees honored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by marching in the 41st Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Parade Sunday.

The History You Weren’t Taught in School

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7 people stand with "black history, freedom and love"

Mark your calendar for a special film screening on the past, present and future of race relations in America. The African American Association of County Employees and County Library are hosting a special film screening to celebrate Black History Month at 2 p.m. on Feb. 25 at the Poway Library.

Black scholars will talk about race relations during the film screening and discussion of “Black History, Black Freedom and Black Love.”

Film Series Description:

Seven Black scholars invite you to learn the American history not taught in schools. Examine white supremacy and its antithesis, Black love; explore The 1619 Project and the origins of slavery; and begin to reshape the conversations on race in America.

RSVP now.

The Poway Library Branch is located at 13137 Poway Road, Poway.

See the flyer below.

Employees Share New Year’s Resolutions: Liza Manio & Liza Flores

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As we say goodbye to 2022 and look to 2023, we asked some County employees to share their New Year’s resolutions. Today meet Liza Manio, a paralegal, and Liza Flores, a departmental human resource officer with County Counsel. Hear their resolutions and more and watch more resolution videos.

A new video will post each day.