Program Delivery Title VI

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Program DeliveryTitle VI

• Wisconsin Civil Rights Committee

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What is Civil Rights?

• The right to due process, equal treatment under
  the law for all people to enjoy life, liberty,
  property, and protection.

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What is Title VI?

• Prohibits discrimination in programs and
  activities

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What is Civil Rights in Program Delivery?

• Equal access to participate in NRCS programs,
  services, information, and/or activities.

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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.

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What areas are most common to be out of
compliance?

• Accessibility
• Records
• Training
• Public Notifications
• Outreach

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Definitions of Terms
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What is a Federally Assisted Program?

• Programs and Activities for which Federal
  Financial Assistance is Provided Through a
  Recipient.

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What is a Recipient?

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

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Examples of Entities

• Universities
• Colleges
• Soil and Water Conservation Districts
• Resource Conservation Development Councils

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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.

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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.

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

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• 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

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Forms of Discrimination

• Disparate Treatment
• Disparate Impact
• Systemic Discrimination

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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.

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Disparate Impact

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

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Systemic Discrimination

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

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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 individuals income is derived from
  any public assistance program.