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Community Listening Sessions The City of Rockville is seeking community input to help shape priorities, decision-making, and engagement efforts for the JEDI Strategic Plan. Focus groups and listening sessions in April and May will help the city better understand community experiences, identify areas of strength, and uncover opportunities to improve programs, services, and outcomes. Sign up to participate (space is limited).
Project Overview
The JEDI Strategic Plan is a comprehensive five-year roadmap that will guide the city's work to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion across all operations and community services. The plan will establish clear goals, measurable outcomes, accountability structures, and resource allocation strategies to ensure JEDI is integrated into all city decision-making and service delivery. In January 2026, the city awarded a contract to The Executive Learning Lab to conduct a comprehensive JEDI assessment and develop the five-year strategic plan. This work builds on the city's existing commitment to equity and inclusion while establishing clear goals, metrics, and implementation strategies.
Goals for Community Engagement
INFORM: Share the purpose, goals, vision, and opportunities for participation. Receive metrics report and findings.
CONSULT: Gather feedback through surveys, focus groups, listening sessions, and Mayor and Council responses.
INVOLVE: Engage with internal and external stakeholders through focus groups and listening sessions to gain a deeper understanding of their feedback.
COLLABORATE: Utilize data and feedback to co-develop priorities, strategic recommendations, engagement metrics, measures of success, and timelines for reviewing, revising, and updating the strategic plan.
EMPOWER: Ultimately, use the strategic plan to help empower city residents to be more engaged in helping shape policies, practices, and city priorities, utilizing the results to guide equitable access to services and programs.
Key Terms
Justice: The consistent and systematic review and modification of policies, practices and conditions that could lead to unfair outcomes in order to ensure fair treatment, access and opportunity for all people who live, are employed by or visit the city.
Equity: The consistent and systematic fair treatment of all people through policies, practices and resources intentionally to respond to identified needs and reduce barriers.
Diversity: The presence of differences within a group including (but not limited to) race, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, age, ability, language, socioeconomic background and perspectives.
Inclusion: The intentional design of environments, processes, and strategies so that all people can meaningfully participate, contribute and influence decisions and outcomes.
Accessibility: The proactive removal of physical, digital, communication and systemic barrier to that all people can access services, information and opportunities.
Assessment: The structured process of evaluating of policies, programs, services, experiences and outcomes to understand effectiveness, identify gaps and to inform plans for improvement.
Belonging: The experience of being valued, respected, and supported to safely, authentically and robustly participate within the city.
Data Driven: The use of qualitative and quantitative information to guide the analysis of programming and inform the development of future policies and practices.
Engagement and Outreach: Ongoing interaction with community members through measured efforts to inform and connect in order to ensure awareness and participation in decisions and creating solutions.
Shared Accountability: The recognition and expectation that all levels of the organization are responsible for outcomes related to fairness, access and service delivery.
Transparency: The open sharing of information about decisions, processes and outcomes in ways that are understandable and accessible.
Community Listening Sessions The City of Rockville is seeking community input to help shape priorities, decision-making, and engagement efforts for the JEDI Strategic Plan. Focus groups and listening sessions in April and May will help the city better understand community experiences, identify areas of strength, and uncover opportunities to improve programs, services, and outcomes. Sign up to participate (space is limited).
Project Overview
The JEDI Strategic Plan is a comprehensive five-year roadmap that will guide the city's work to advance justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion across all operations and community services. The plan will establish clear goals, measurable outcomes, accountability structures, and resource allocation strategies to ensure JEDI is integrated into all city decision-making and service delivery. In January 2026, the city awarded a contract to The Executive Learning Lab to conduct a comprehensive JEDI assessment and develop the five-year strategic plan. This work builds on the city's existing commitment to equity and inclusion while establishing clear goals, metrics, and implementation strategies.
Goals for Community Engagement
INFORM: Share the purpose, goals, vision, and opportunities for participation. Receive metrics report and findings.
CONSULT: Gather feedback through surveys, focus groups, listening sessions, and Mayor and Council responses.
INVOLVE: Engage with internal and external stakeholders through focus groups and listening sessions to gain a deeper understanding of their feedback.
COLLABORATE: Utilize data and feedback to co-develop priorities, strategic recommendations, engagement metrics, measures of success, and timelines for reviewing, revising, and updating the strategic plan.
EMPOWER: Ultimately, use the strategic plan to help empower city residents to be more engaged in helping shape policies, practices, and city priorities, utilizing the results to guide equitable access to services and programs.
Key Terms
Justice: The consistent and systematic review and modification of policies, practices and conditions that could lead to unfair outcomes in order to ensure fair treatment, access and opportunity for all people who live, are employed by or visit the city.
Equity: The consistent and systematic fair treatment of all people through policies, practices and resources intentionally to respond to identified needs and reduce barriers.
Diversity: The presence of differences within a group including (but not limited to) race, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, age, ability, language, socioeconomic background and perspectives.
Inclusion: The intentional design of environments, processes, and strategies so that all people can meaningfully participate, contribute and influence decisions and outcomes.
Accessibility: The proactive removal of physical, digital, communication and systemic barrier to that all people can access services, information and opportunities.
Assessment: The structured process of evaluating of policies, programs, services, experiences and outcomes to understand effectiveness, identify gaps and to inform plans for improvement.
Belonging: The experience of being valued, respected, and supported to safely, authentically and robustly participate within the city.
Data Driven: The use of qualitative and quantitative information to guide the analysis of programming and inform the development of future policies and practices.
Engagement and Outreach: Ongoing interaction with community members through measured efforts to inform and connect in order to ensure awareness and participation in decisions and creating solutions.
Shared Accountability: The recognition and expectation that all levels of the organization are responsible for outcomes related to fairness, access and service delivery.
Transparency: The open sharing of information about decisions, processes and outcomes in ways that are understandable and accessible.
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The City of Rockville is developing a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Strategic Plan to guide priorities, decision-making, and community engagement efforts over the next several years.
As part of this process, the city is gathering input from the broader Rockville community through a series of focus groups and listening sessions. These conversations will help the city better understand community experiences, identify areas of strength, and uncover opportunities to improve programs, services, and outcomes.
Focus groups and listening sessions will take place in April and May and will include a variety of stakeholder groups to ensure a wide range of perspectives are represented. Sessions will focus on specific topics including housing and economic development, faith based and community organizations, education and youth groups, business and civic organizations, senior services, the disabled community, the small business community, and more.
Spots are limited to support meaningful, small-group discussions. Participants are encouraged to select the session that best aligns with their role, experience, or community connection.
The City of Rockville is developing a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Strategic Plan to guide priorities, decision-making, and community engagement efforts over the next several years.
As part of this process, the city is gathering input from the broader Rockville community through a series of focus groups and listening sessions. These conversations will help the city better understand community experiences, identify areas of strength, and uncover opportunities to improve programs, services, and outcomes.
Focus groups and listening sessions will take place in April and May and will include a variety of stakeholder groups to ensure a wide range of perspectives are represented. Sessions will focus on specific topics including housing and economic development, faith based and community organizations, education and youth groups, business and civic organizations, senior services, the disabled community, the small business community, and more.
Spots are limited to support meaningful, small-group discussions. Participants are encouraged to select the session that best aligns with their role, experience, or community connection.
