DLA News Archive

Category: Equal Employment and Opportunity, SAPR

introduction slide for LGBTQ+ Veterans and Health video presentation

June 17, 2021

DLA Disposition Services observes Pride Month

BATTLE CREEK, Mich — June is Pride Month and in the spirit of the month, Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Equal Employment Office & MWR offices are offering ways to help celebrate the month.

Two masked female officers display their relay mileage totals.

May 21, 2021

National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month ends with successful virtual event

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — In April, more than 450 DLA employees participated in a virtual Teal Ribbon Relay to support National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.

April 1, 2021

Teal Ribbon Relay highlights Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Sexual Assault Prevention and Response offices throughout the agency are encouraging employees to rack up more than a thousand miles of running and walking in support of this year’s awareness campaign.

A woman speaks in front of a digital blackboard.

March 31, 2021

Local professor shares history of women’s suffrage

“Reflecting on the Centennial of the 19th Amendment” shines a light on efforts to win American women the right to vote in the early 20th century.

A man in a wheelchair speaks to the camera.

Oct. 30, 2020

“Disability does not define me”

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — DLA Finance Business Analyst Brad Messenger shares part of his personal story to help observe National Disability Awareness Month in October.

Command director speaks in front of large screens.

Oct. 27, 2020

Leadership sync perseveres through pandemic

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Annual leaders meet up continues online in an upended 2020.

poster commemorating National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Oct. 7, 2020

Leveling the playing field

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — DLA Energy Utility Services Contract Specialist Arthur Everett has a hearing impairment in both ears due to contracting spinal meningitis at age 3. He is featured in the upper right corner of this year's poster commemorating National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Woman working outside looking at her computer.

June 8, 2020

Program manager advances sexual assault awareness, prevention during pandemic

FORT BELVOIR, Va. — Bethrece Cheek reported to DLA in December as the agency’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program manager. During the pandemic, she works from home to help raise employee awareness about the agency's SAPR Program.

Community leaders sit onstage and talk about leadership.

Jan. 21, 2020

MLK’s call to service observed in Battle Creek

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Federal employees at the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center gathered January 16 to observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and remember the civil rights icon’s call to national and community service.

DLA Logistics Operations Program Analyst Michael Perez, a People With Disabilities Committee member, helps DLA Disposition Services’ Kathy Hausknecht through a limited visibility exercise during the Disability Challenge at the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in Battle Creek, Michigan, Oct. 23.

Oct. 24, 2019

Challenge helps put employees in shoes of others

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Battle Creek personnel recently experienced a tiny taste of life with a mental or physical disability.