U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
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
What is Civil Rights in Program Delivery?
Equal access to participate
in NRCS programs, services, information, and/or activities.
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.
What areas are most common to be out of compliance?
Accessibility
Records
Training Public Notifications
Outreach
Definitions of Terms
What is a Federally Assisted Program?
Programs and Activities for
which Federal Financial Assistance is Provided Through a Recipient.
What is a Recipient?
An entity to whom Federal
financial assistance is extended, directly or through another recipient for any program or activity.
Examples of Entities
Universities Colleges Soil and Water Conservation
Districts Resource Conservation & Development Councils
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.
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.
How to file a program complaint of discrimination? (Title VI)
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
Forms of Discrimination
Disparate
Disparate Systemic
Treatment
Impact
Discrimination
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.
Disparate Impact
Practices that are fair in form,
But discriminatory in operation.
Systemic Discrimination
Discrimination that is part of
the operating procedures of many organizations.
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.