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Announcing Our FY25 EPIC Awards Winner for Entrepreneurial Spirit!

PCG’s quarterly employee recognition program, the EPIC Awards, is designed to help bring the firm’s four core tenets—Entrepreneurial Spirit, Passion, Impact, and Community—to life in a tangible way. Today, we are thrilled to announce that Helen McDermott, a Senior Consultant in Human Services, has been selected as PCG’s newest EPIC Awards winner in recognition of the Entrepreneurial Spirit she has demonstrated by innovating and improving the systems we use to deliver meaningful solutions. 

13. September 2024
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    Embracing Inclusion: PCG Inclusion Champions Selected for Disability:In Next Gen Mentorship 2024 Program

    At Public Consulting Group (PCG), we firmly believe that fostering growth and providing opportunities are fundamental drivers of innovation and excellence. These principles are ingrained in the work we do every day creating solutions that matter to the communities we serve, as is the understanding that to do this work effectively—to help our clients solve their most complex problems so they can better serve their constituents—our workforce must reflect those communities. As such, we are intentionally building and embracing an inclusive workforce culture...

    • 26. April 2024
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    Marking Our Journey: Disability Workplace Inclusion

    PCG’s Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Sophia Thwaites, recently launched a new internal initiative to increase awareness of and engagement in organizational efforts to advance a diverse, inclusive, and engaged workforce culture. Marking Our DEI Journey is a new quarterly letter of reflection to employees that Sophia introduced earlier this quarter to encourage a dialogue around the Office of DEI’s key strategic priority areas, like Disability Workplace Inclusion, which was the focus of her first letter to the PCG community. Our Corporate Communications team connected with Sophia at the beginning of March—which also happens to be Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month—to learn more about Disability Workplace Inclusion.

    • 27. March 2024
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    The Intersection of Case Management and the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Settings Final Rule

    The concept of person-centered planning has been at play for decades, yet the publication of the Home and Community-based Services (HCBS) Settings Final Rule (“Final Rule”) in 2014 was the first time person-centeredness was explicitly tied to ongoing funding of home and community-based settings under the various Medicaid waiver authorities. As states work to comply with the Final Rule, agencies and service providers should embrace the important role they play in a state’s ability to make the shift to person-centeredness.

    • 14. December 2020
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    Vocational rehabilitation subject matter expert shares insight for HR professionals on the benefits of using employments specialists

    According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 30 percent of the 15.3 million Americans of working age (between ages 16 and 64) with disabilities participated in the workforce in 2018, compared with 74 percent of Americans without a disability. An Accenture analysis of the research suggests that shifting recruitment efforts to focus on disability inclusion would therefore provide companies with access to a new talent pool of more than 10.7 million people.

    • 18. November 2019