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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)