Civil Rights Training

1. Civil Rights Training

2. Welcome Bienvenidos, Nyob Zoo, Huan Ying, Bienvenue, Boa Vinda, ‘So Dhowaada’

3. AGENDA • Welcome • What is discrimination/Civil Rights • Review of Civil Rights Laws/Guidance • Break • BCR Complaint Process and Procedures • Questions/Evaluations • Adjourn

4. Objectives • Define discrimination and recognize unlawful practices. • Identify the basic regulations, policies, and laws that apply to Civil Rights. • Increase your knowledge and understanding of the Civil Rights Complaint Process. • Define a variety of Federal nondiscrimination laws required for federally assisted programs. • Understand the process of an effective complaint resolution.

5. What is discrimination ? Discrimination occurs when an individual’s civil rights are denied or interfered with because of their membership in a particular group of class

6. Examples of Illegal Discrimination • Denying a benefit or opportunity • Providing different services/benefits • Providing services/benefits in a different manner or in a segregated environment • Restricting privileges • Using policies/procedures that have the effect of discriminating

7. What is a Civil Right? • A civil right is an enforceable right or privilege, which if interfered with by another gives rise to an action for injury • Examples: • Freedom of speech, press, assembly • Right to vote • Freedom from involuntary servitude • Right to equality in public places

8. Protected Classes Under Federal and State Laws • Age • Race • Religion • Color • Sex • National Origin • Disability • Political Belief or Affiliation (FS, WIA)

9. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, 1964 Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504). The Age Discrimination Act of 1975 The Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA) of 1994 The Americans with Disability Act of 1990 (ADA) Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 Federal Nondiscrimination Laws that apply to programs

10. Who must comply? • All programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance. • Federal financial assistance includes “grants and loans of Federal funds” • “Program” includes “any program, project, or activity for the provision of services, financial aid, or other benefits to individuals (including education or training, health, welfare –TANF…provided through the employees of the recipient of Federal financial assistance or provided by others through contacts.

11. TANF programs Welfare-to-Work programs Food Stamp Programs Other welfare programs and the actions of welfare providers Child Welfare programs Day Care Centers WIA programs Adoption and foster care programs Programs for families, youth and children Job training programs Contractors, subcontractors and vendors, whether public, private, for profit or nonprofit. What programs are covered?

12. Prohibited Practices • Denying any individual services, opportunities, or other benefits for which that individual is otherwise qualified; • Providing any service or benefit in a different manner from that which is provided to others in a program because of race, color, national origin, disability, sex…; • Segregating service recipients solely because of race, color, national origin, disability, sex….;

13. Prohibited Practices • Restricting access to program services or benefits because of race, color, national origin, sex, religion…..; • Adopting methods of administration which would limit participation by any group of recipients or subject them to discrimination; • Addressing an individual in a manner that denotes inferiority because of a protected class.

14. Collection and use of racial/ethnic data The development of an effective public notification system A plan for equal access Reasonable accommodation of persons with disabilities. Requirements for language assistance Plan for conflict resolution which includes the development of a complaint procedure Food Stamp ProgramResponsibilities

15. Civil Rights History

16. CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORYCIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT The American Civil Rights Movement is one of the most momentous epics in the history of the American Republic. The most active period of the Civil RightsMovement was between 1954, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, and 1965, passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

17. The Movement – Boycotting

18. Civil Rights Movement • 1954 Brown vs. the Board of Education • 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott • 1957 Separate public facilities

19. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses were desegregated Dec. 21, 1956

20. 1957 -Little Rock, Arkansas, formerly all-white Central High School learns that integration is easier said than done. Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who had become know as the “Little Rock Nine.”

21. Separate facilities

23. Civil Rights Movement • 1959-1963 Lunch Counter Sit-Ins • 1961 “Freedom Rides” organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to expose illegal segregation practices on Interstate bus or train travel • 1962 United Farm Workers Union established to for protest working conditions and civil rights for Mexican American

24. 1961 CORE began sending student volunteers on bus trips to test the implementation of new laws prohibiting segregation in interstate travel facilities

25. Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers Association in 1962

27. CIVIL RIGHT LAWS

28. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a product of the growing demand, from civil rights leaders, for the Federal Government to launch a nationwide offensive against racial discrimination.In calling for its enactment, President John F. Kennedy identified “simple justice” as the justification for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

29. Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Signed into law on July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson

30. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 • ….prohibits discrimination on the basis of “race, color, or national origin…Under any programs or activity receiving federal assistance” • 42 U.S.C.:2000d

31. Purpose of Title VI • To ensure public funds are not spent in a way that encourages, subsidizes, or results in racial discrimination. • Bars intentional discrimination • Authorizes and directs federal agencies to enact rules, regulations, or orders of general applicability to achieve the statute’s objectives

32. The Civil Rights Act of 1964Title VI “no person in the United States shall on the grounds of race, color, or national origin be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

33. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs and activities that receive or benefit from Federal assistance. A provider may not exclude, deny or provide different or lesser services to applicants or beneficiaries on the basis or sex.

34. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (504) • No qualified individual with a disability in the US shall be excluded from denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity that receives Federal financial assistance.

35. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (504) • Covers any State or local agency, private institution or organization, or any public or private entity that: • Operates, provides or engages in health or social service programs and activities; and • Receives Federal financial assistance from HHS directly or through another recipient/covered entity.

36. The Age Discrimination Act of 1975 No person in the US shall, on the basis of age, be excluded from participation, in be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

37. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990

38. Title II Protects 3 Categories of Individuals with Disabilities • Individuals who have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity • Individuals who have a record of a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the individual’s major life activities. • Individuals who are regarded as having such an impairment, whether they have the impairment or not.

39. The Americans with Disability Act of 1990 • Title I – Employment • Title II– Accessibility of Programs and Services in the Public Sector; Transportation • Title III– Public Accommodations and Services in the Private Sector • Title IV-Telecommunications • Title V – Miscellaneous provisions

40. The Americans with Disability Act of 1990Title II of the ADA • No qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of a public entity, or be subjected to discrimination by any such entity

41. The Americans with Disability Act of 1990 Equal AccessTo Programs and Services • Program Accessibility • Can establish similar but separate program as long as services are equivalent • Must offer accessibility to a program upon request • Physical Accessibility • ADA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG)

42. Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA) • Original 1994 • Amended 1996

43. MULTIETHNIC PLACEMENT ACT as Amended by Section 1808 • No public children services agency, private child placing agency or private non-custodial agency shall deny any person the opportunity to become an adoptive parent on the basis of race, color or national origin of that person, or the child involved; nor delay or deny the placement of a child for adoption on the basis or race, color or national origin of the adoptive parent or parents, or of the childinvolved.

44. Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 • Section 188 of the act provides that “no individual shall be excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, subjected to discrimination, denied employment in the administration of or in connection with any such program or activity because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or political affiliation or belief .”

46. Limited English Proficient (LEP) An LEP individual is a person who is unable to speak, read, write or understand the English language at a level that permits him or her to interact effectively with health and social services agencies and providers.

47. LEP and Title VI To comply with Title VI federally-funded entities must ensure that LEP persons have meaningful access.

48. Key to LEP Compliance • To ensure meaningful access covered entities must: • provide language assistance • that results in accurate and effective communication • at no cost

49. Meaningful Access - Factors • size of the covered entity • size of eligible population • nature of program/service • program objectives • resources • frequency of encounters • discrete languages and • LEP individuals

50. Oral Language Assistance Covered entities must provide: • Language interpreters • Trained & competent interpreters • Assistance must be timely • At no cost to the LEP person