Collaboration and Networking Opportunities

Find Collaboration and Support

Join groups across VDH and other state agencies that offer support and collaboration for you in your work at VDH.

  • Collaborate to share resources and strategies
  • Provide professional development/training opportunities
  • Skill enhancement
  • Talent retention
  • Instructional design
  • Technology toolkit
  • Coaching/Mentoring support

Professional Training and Development Learning Community (PLC)

Do you want to network and collaborate with other workforce development co-workers agency-wide? Join PLC Teams Channel! The Professional Learning Community (PLC) was created to support each other, produce, facilitate, and present training and learning opportunities for our departments, offices and teams. PLC meetings typically take place on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 11 AM through Teams.

We encourage all Trainers across VDH to join Training PLC.

Commonwealth of Virginia Training & Development Network

The Commonwealth of Virginia Training & Development network is a collaborative of learning and development, workforce development, and organizational development professionals from across state government.   The purpose of the Commonwealth of Virginia Training & Development Network (Network) is to:

  • Share expertise, promote efficient resource utilization, and leverage ideas and best practices with learning professionals across the Commonwealth.
  • Partner for professional development for all learning professionals.
  • Strengthen the learning community’s alignment with DHRM and vice versa.

Network members meet a few times each year to support our collective development and share information with each other.  Network members also leverage and collaborate directly with each other to support the important work of learning and development in their agencies. 

Those interested in being a part of the COV Training and Development Network can email workforce.development@dhrm.virginia.gov with your name and email address to be added to the network.

eLearning Coalition    

The eLearning Coalition was originally established for Virginia Department of Social Services training groups and has now expanded to include training groups from eight other state agencies. It provides a way to share information on accessibility, Storyline build issues, software, resource links, links to documents and act as an overall brain trust for eLearning development. The Coalition holds quarterly meetings on the 3rd Wednesday of January, April, July, and October.

Those interested in being a part of the eLearning Coalition should email Katherine Fisher (VDSS), at Katherine.Fisher@dss.virginia.gov