Here within the INA, our organization truly believes in serving all the diverse populations of our membership throughout the greater global nanny community. It is for this reason that the INA Board announced in early 2019 our new theme of “UNITY” within the nanny industry.
Striving toward our new focus, the INA Board of Directors wishes to strengthen our global community by becoming an organization that is better representative and supportive of all our diverse workers. In 2020, the Board will be working on two new exciting initiatives that will call into focus the strength of our diversity, and bolster our solidarity to one another.
The first is the formulation of a Diversity Task Force. Our goal is to develop steps to better support and represent all individuals within our industry. The Co-President’s have appointed Thaty Oliveria and Christa Nader to be Board liaisons for this task force. They will be seeking feedback regarding the quality of our personal representation, service, and programs, as well as ways we can better support and unify behind you. Our desire is to strengthen and grow the professionalism, protections, and quality of our association, and we can only do so by hearing from you.
They will then take this anonymous feedback to the full Board so they may review the information together and formulate necessary changes wherever possible. If you are interested in being a part of the leadership or research for this task force, please let us know by emailing memberservices@nanny.org.
The second initiative is an International Summit which will be focused on our desire to better understand the needs of our international community. and at least three of our Board Members will be present to gather information and report to the rest of the Board of Directors. Anyone in the industry is welcome to attend this summit and the cost of attendance, as well as time and location, will be announced in December.
As we have grown throughout the decades and have been made increasingly aware of the challenges different populations face within our industry, we have also recognized our need as the umbrella organization to do better, and be better. We can only grow with your help: members make our organization! We anticipate great change to come about from these two initiatives over the next several years, and we are grateful for your continued partnership and commitment to making our organization the very strongest support for all people.
We hope that you will consider being a part of one of these new initiatives.