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Program Delivery Title VI

Program Delivery Title VI. Wisconsin Civil Rights Committee. What is Civil Rights?. The right to due process, equal treatment under the law for all people to enjoy life, liberty, property, and protection. What is Title VI?. Prohibits discrimination in programs and activities.

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Program Delivery Title VI

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  1. Program DeliveryTitle VI Wisconsin Civil Rights Committee

  2. What is Civil Rights? • The right to due process, equal treatment under the law for all people to enjoy life, liberty, property, and protection.

  3. What is Title VI? • Prohibits discrimination in programs and activities

  4. What is Civil Rights in Program Delivery? • Equal access to participate in NRCS programs, services, information, and/or activities.

  5. Program delivery requirements • Title VI Requires • Civil Rights Responsibilities & Records • Training • Public Notification • Outreach • Complaints of Discrimination • Evaluation of Program Delivery • Partnership Responsibility • Access to ALL NRCS facilities by persons with Disabilities.

  6. What areas are most common to be out of compliance? • Accessibility • Records • Training • Public Notifications • Outreach

  7. Definitions of Terms

  8. What is a Federally Assisted Program? • Programs and Activities for which Federal Financial Assistance is Provided Through a Recipient.

  9. What is a Recipient? • An entity to whom Federal financial assistance is extended, directly or through another recipient for any program or activity.

  10. Examples of Entities • Universities • Colleges • Soil and Water Conservation Districts • Resource Conservation & Development Councils

  11. What is a Federally Conducted Program? • Those programs or activities that result in or contribute to the delivery of services, benefits, or resources to customers.

  12. What is a Beneficiary? • A person or group of persons with entitlement to receive or enjoy the benefits, services, resources, and information, or participate in activities and programs conducted in whole or part by USDA.

  13. How to file a programcomplaint of discrimination? (Title VI)

  14. All complaints of discrimination are filed with the USDA, Director, Office of Civil Rights • 14th Independence Avenue, SW, Whitten Building, Room 325-W, Washington, DC 20259

  15. Forms of Discrimination • Disparate Treatment • Disparate Impact • Systemic Discrimination

  16. Disparate Treatment • A form of discrimination that occurs when two employees are similarly situated and one employee receives inferior treatment or suffers harsher consequences than the other.

  17. Disparate Impact • Practices that are fair in form, But discriminatory in operation.

  18. Systemic Discrimination • Discrimination that is part of the operating procedures of many organizations.

  19. USDA Civil Rights Policy It is USDA's policy to ensure that no person is subjected to prohibited discrimination in USDA programs and activities based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, marital status, familial status, parental status, sexual orientation, reprisal, or because all or part of an individual’s income is derived from any public assistance program.

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