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Mapping Non-Discrimination

Mapping Non-Discrimination. Phase 1 – Title VI. Evan Olsen Federal Programs Planner WSDOT. Lise Goss GIS Manager WSDOT. 27 Languages. 6,307,500 WA Total 503,000 LEP individuals. Spanish Chinese Vietnamese Russian Korean Tagalog African Languages Other Slavic Languages

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Mapping Non-Discrimination

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  1. Mapping Non-Discrimination Phase 1 – Title VI Evan Olsen Federal Programs Planner WSDOT Lise Goss GIS Manager WSDOT

  2. 27 Languages • 6,307,500 WA Total • 503,000 LEP individuals Spanish Chinese Vietnamese Russian Korean Tagalog African Languages Other Slavic Languages Other Pacific Islander Languages Other Indic Languages Japanese Mon-Khmer/Cambodian Other Asian Languages Arabic German Other Indo-European Languages Laotian French Thai Persian Hindi Serbo-Croatian Hmong Polish Portuguese Italian Scandinavian Languages

  3. Why this, why now? • Increase outreach • Address indirect impact • More accessible information • Title VI focused demographics • General compliance • Federal emphasis

  4. Guiding principles • Easy to use • Intuitive • User driven • Input yields great output • Tool for multiple uses

  5. What is this project? • Web based application • Visual display of data • Built in thresholds (5% or 1,000) • Customizable • Mapping skills are not required

  6. What this is NOT • Silver bullet • Automatic compliance with regulations • Assurance of grant award

  7. Uses • Outreach and public involvement • Charts for grant applications • Demographic analysis

  8. Data Sources • US Census • American Community Survey– 5 year

  9. Timeline • Phase 1 (Thru Sept 2013) • Language • Minority • Print Report • Phase 1 Beta (1 month - TBD) • Testing group needed • Phase 2 (Fall 2013 – Spring 2014) • Disability • Income/Poverty • Age • Veteran • Phase 2 Beta (spring 2014)

  10. Ask Yourself… • Do you see this tool providing a benefit to your agency? • How would you use this? • Would you pay money to use this?

  11. Questions • Evan Olsen olsene@wsdot.wa.gov | 360-705-6929 • Lise Goss gosse@wsdot.wa.gov | 360-705-7386

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