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The Indiana State Personnel Department Communications team is always looking to tell great stories about the wonderful state employees we have throughout Indiana. We'd like you to send us some ideas too! To submit an idea for a story featured on Employee Central or in The Torch, email the INSPD Communications Staff.
Current and past issues of Employee Central stories
2024
2023
- It runs in the family at WVCF
- Ride of a lifetime: IDOH staff join historic Iowa bicycle ride
- Youth movement: IDOH, FSSA partnership gives young people a voice – and jobs -- in public health
- Indiana Department of Health Q & A with Mohan Ambaty – world-running CIO
- Fatality Review & Prevention Division joins effort to help standardize pediatric drowning investigations
- Epi center: ‘Rising Leader’ winner Nicole Stone inspires team, earns national epidemiology award
- Governor’s Public Service Summer Interns Recap
- London’s calling: Voice ambassadors win award, D.C. trip for tobacco prevention work
- Community paramedicine program changing care in rural communities
- Pieces of a puzzle: WIC team celebrates "the whole person" with arts, crafts, and care
- Looking back, looking forward: Retiring Feaster proud of work, team
2022
- Pageants, parasites and public health: Dahlhoff seeks to inspire future scientists, pageant participants to dream big
- Unconscious Bias reference article for state employees
- Longtime Reds fan Rose throws out first pitch at Major League game
- Team building: Medical surveyors’ friendship, consistency help Hoosier kids, each other
- 'Start Smart' hopes to get Indiana children caught up on routine immunizations
- Peer education program key in harm reduction, disease prevention
- What in the world is the Flipping Finance Challenge?
- Educators seeing positive results for deaf/hard of hearing kids, families
- INSPD employee, Jerry Williams begins his 22nd year of drawings for The Torch
- 2022 Canstruction recap
- Department of Revenue Employee of the Year modernizes permitting website
- A shot in the arm: IDOH vaccine clinics boost vulnerable populations
2021
- Six honored at INDOT CEPSA ceremony (June)
- Government Women in Technology (March)
- Reaching HIRE, Moving Forward: INDOT highway tech driven to succeed in career, life (March)
- Pop life: Hoosier transplant, BMV employee is a musician, podcaster on the side (February)
- IURC attorney volunteers for animal rescue, teaches 'lost' art (January)
2020
- Renaissance man: State employee shares joy of painting, music for charity (October)
- S.A.F.E. and sound: Correctional facility employees’ animal rescue touches heart of small community (January)
- SECC shatters goal, sets new fundraising record (January)
- Governor’s Long-Term Employee Reception honors, thanks longest-serving employees (January)
- Lip Sync Battle boosts SECC, builds friendships, new opportunities for DFI (January)
2019
- WGU honors Public Service Recognition Scholarship winners (December)
- FSSA-BDDS employee completes last long-distance wheelchair tour for slain children (December)
- Ready, quilling, and able: DWD administrative assistant’s paper crafts bring smiles, boost SECC (December)
- Retiring DCS director saddles up for life on the farm (October)
- Family, friends, fun run through 2019 5K/hike series (September)
- Employee Spotlight: Indiana Department of Correction Sgt. Tyler Meyer (March)
- Governor honors long-term employees at statehouse reception (January)
2018
- Timeless Flight: Indiana Veterans' Home residents take to air in vintage biplane (December)
- Award-winning '#DORGivesBack' encourages volunteerism, community service (December)
- SECC reaches $1.5 million goal (December)
- Governor, WGU honor scholarship recipients (October)
- IDEM weight loss challenge encourages healthy habits (August)
- DCS office bonds, gets healthy with ‘fun runs’ and 5Ks (August)
- Shelby County FSSA hits gym, drops bad habits (August)
- Logansport State Hospital staff show heart with ‘Helping Hands’ (June)
- INDOT “Trash Bash!” removes thousands of bags of litter from Hoosier highways (June)
- It all adds up: Successful SECC program nets more than $1.4 million for Hoosier charities (May)
- Longtime DNR hatchery manager talks walleye, catfish stocking (May)
- IDEM Risk Assessor finds love and new purpose on the Appalachian Trail (May)
- New Parent Leave helping families grow -- together (April)