1. Your Path to a CDC Honor Award
ACOA Lunch and Learn
CAPT Monica Parise
CDR Cria Perrine
Sheryl Taylor
April 10, 2018

2. Goal:
Promote officers getting awarded for impactful work while maintaining award quality

3. Commissioned Corps Activity (CCA) Awards Share Point
Your One Stop Shop for Everything Awards
Forms
Examples
CC policy
CDC Guidance
Board Members
CDC deadlines
Bookmark it!!!

4. Important Principles (I)
Myth: Has to be a separate body of work from your regular job duties (false)
Fact: Must show public health impact! Various ways:
Health outcome – morbidity, mortality
Policy change
Cost savings
Improved program efficiency
Generation of new knowledge
Secured new resources (financial, personnel)
Information dissemination (extended reach)

5. Important Principles (II)
Can not be awarded twice for same activity
Exceptions:
Career wrap
High level leadership of large responses
Leadership of a number of activities: Some must be previously un-awarded

6. Enter the Award History
Ensures compliance with policy of not double awarding work
Need full award history for all awards (no exceptions)
If none, must indicate
We are trying to make this easier through download from PIR

7. Level of Award Determined by 4 factors: Scope of impact
Magnitude of achievement
Leadership
Length of time
No future impact!
May also award with Valor
* CCM

8. Group vs Individual Awards
For large responses, individual awards typically for the few in highest leadership positions
Decided by response leadership (or the group leading an activity)
Individual award for leadership- if significant contributions above and beyond group work
Cannot opt out of the group award!
An OUC is a high level award!

9. A Word about EIS
EIS wrap allows for disparate activities to be bundled (in a way that might otherwise be difficult to tie together)
No One Size Fits All– level based on impact; needn’t be 3 activities; can get > 1 award for EIS work
Typically packaged as AM
Need EIS Program concurrence ( OK)

10. Career Counseling
Often better to have a higher level award than multiple lower level ones….
Example: OSM > CIT + CIT + CIT

11. Timeliness Due to Division Due to CIO Due to CDC
Don’t want to see > 2 cycles at CDC Board
A lot of the hard work is done in the CIOs
Listen to your Division and CIO award reps!
Due to Division
Due to CIO
Due to CDC

12. Level of Approvals Agency: OSM and below for individual awards; UC
CCAB*: DSM; MSM; OUC; any award with Valor
* Commissioned Corps Awards Board (HQ)

13. CDC Honor Awards Board Purview
Work done within scope of Officer’s CDC duties
Those outside an Agency’s awards board process are reviewed by SG Awards Board
Example: Deployment
Category-specific work has interim step via CPO Awards Board
If in doubt, consult CCA

14. A Word about Valor
Act(ions) of bravery and courage, and/or heroism, in particular those resulting in the saving or preserving of life or health of others
Determining factors which must be demonstrated: Degree of risk to personal safety, level of bravery, and the demonstration of courage
Not to be used to recognize hazardous assignments or exposure to dangerous and life threatening environments (service awards)

15. A Few Nuts and Bolts (I)
Nominator must sign within 13 months of the last accomplishment!
Goes through chain of nominator
Group where work was done must sign off
If changed positions, current supervisor must concur to affirm officer in good standing

16. A Few Nuts and Bolts (II)
It is in your best interest to make it easy to read:
Bullets!!!
Limit acronyms
Avoid flowery language
Accomplishments are what you did– impacts are what resulted! (so impacts are generally not verbs….)
Keep Conclusion short

17. A Few Ground Rules All awards must go through CIO Board or rep
Can’t accept late submissions (effort to be fair)
All comments from CDC Board must at least be considered (and typos and grammatical errors must be addressed!)
Prefer you address concerns to CCA and not directly to CCAB (keep within chain of command)

18. Helpful Links CCA SharePoint Site
Commissioned Corps Management Information System
CDC Honor Award Guidance
Putting Pen to Paper- Writing CC Awards
Commissioned Corps Awards Policy- CCI511.01
For questions, contact your CIO Awards Board Representative or

19. Questions???