U.S. Department of AgricultureNatural 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 EntitiesUniversitiesCollegesSoil and Water Conservation

DistrictsResource 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 programcomplaint 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 TreatmentDisparate ImpactSystemic 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 DiscriminationDiscrimination 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.