The Department’s strategic plan integrates diversity, equity, and inclusion – redesignated as diversity, opportunity, and inclusion (“DOI") – goals into the agency's mission, operations, programs, and infrastructure to enhance equitable opportunities for the populations served by the agency and to foster an increasingly diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace environment as required by Virginia Code § 2.2-602(B). A more in-depth view of the strategic plan follows.

As stated below, the impacts of the strategic plan on the populations served by the agency, licensees and regulants of the Department, is minimal. Additionally, the impacts on the Department’s budget is minimal. Impacts on the Department’s workforce are likely creation of a more diverse workforce.