Guidance

• Department of Justice Final Guidance to Federal Financial Assistance Recipients Regarding Title VI Prohibition Against National Origin Discrimination Affecting Limited English Proficient Persons as published in the Federal Register on June 18, 2002 (specifically for Department of Justice recipients)   (PDF)



• Information on Executive Order 13166: Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency -- link to US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Coordination and Review Section LEP Page
• Discrimination Complaint Form9/14/2004


• Assistant Attorney General Dec. 13, 2002 letter to recipients of DOJ assistance offering assistance in implementing LEP guidance and attaching an article for possible inclusion in newsletters   (PDF)
  Article for possible inclusion in newsletters (attached to Dec. 13, 2002 Assistant Attorney General letter)

Resources

Government Websites Related to Limited English Proficiency

• Know Your Rights Beneficiary Brochure (PDF printable version)9/23/2004
  This is a template that can be used by all agencies



• Information about the Federal Court Interpreter Program



• Possible Federal Sources of Assistance to Federally Assisted Programs or Activities -- Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Coordination and Review Section
  Access information on federal funding sources and a chart which lists 30 federal agencies that provide federal financial assistance and the types of entities they fund. Community organizations and individuals served by federally funded entities can use the chart to determine where complaints of discrimination can be filed.



• Department of Education, Limited-English Proficient Resources



• White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans



• Department of Justice, Voting Rights for Language Minority Citizens



• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
  Facts about National Origin Discrimination

Government Websites and Resources in Other Languages

• Registro de Recursos en Español en Línea



• Iniciativa para la Excelencia en la Educacion de los Hispanoamericanos



• El IRS en español



• Medicare.gov The Official U.S. Government Site for People with Medicare



Medicare.gov El sitio oficial del gobierno de los Estados Unidos, para información sobre Medicare
Medicare.gov Chinese


• Federal Consumer Information Center -- Links to a multi-language gateway of consumer information and a Spanish resources page



• "I Speak" Language Identification Flashcard (PDF)
  From the Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, the "I Speak" Language Identification Flashcard is written in 38 languages and can be used to identify the language spoken by an individual accessing services provided by federally assisted programs or activities.



• Social Security Online Multi-Language Gateway -- Social Security Information in several languages



• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Publications and Fact Sheets in Arabic, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and other languages -- These publications are mail order only (scoll down the page for publications in the languages listed here)



• Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services Publications - Some publications are mail order and some are available online:

  Cambodian
  Chinese
  Korean
  Loatian
  Multilanguage Request for Interpreter Services
  Spanish
  Tagalog
  Vietnamese

• CDC en Español - Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades
  CDC en Español es un portal en la Internet con información en español sobre salud preventiva y seguridad. Suscríbase para recibir periódicamente noticias y alertas en español por correo electrónico.
  
  CDC en Español is an Internet gateway with information in Spanish on preventive health and safety. Subscribe online to receive periodic news and alerts in Spanish through e-mail.



• Noticias del Centro de Investigaciones Ames de la NASA



• Ciencia @ NASA



• El Programa Milenio Nuevo



• El Observatorio de Astronomia Infrarojo de la NASA



• Rincon en el Espacio



• Buscando la hipoteca más favorable



• Federal Drug Administration's Office of Women's Health - My Medicines Russian



• Department of Justice, Voting Rights for Language Minority Citizens (pamphlet):

En Español

Chinese

Japanese

Korean

Tagalog

• Department of Justice, Federal Protections Against National Origin Discrimination (pamphlet):

Arabic PDF version
Cambodian PDF version
Chinese PDF version
English HTML version (PDF version)
Farsi PDF version (4.7 MB file)
French PDF version
Haitian Creole PDF version
Hmong PDF version (3.1 MB file)
Hindi PDF version (2.1 MB file)
Korean PDF version
Laotian PDF version
Protecciones Federales Contra la Discriminación por Origen Nacional (PDF)
Punjabi PDF version
Russian PDF version
Tagalog PDF version
Urdu PDF version Vietnamese PDF version

Promising Practices

• Interpreters Office for the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York10/3/2003
  This is an effective, well-developed model program for providing interpreter services to the courts.

• Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry

Employment related brochures in several languages


• Eastbay Works - Connecting People with Opportunities for Employment

The purpose of EASTBAY Works is to advance the economic well-being of the region by developing and maintaining a skilled workforce. This will be accomplished through a customer-focused collaboration of employment, training, economic development and educational partners working together to meet the needs of employers, job seekers and workers. Includes multi-lingual community resources.


• Education Policy Studies Laboratory: Language Policy Research Unit--Arizona State University

Promotes research and policy analysis on the challenges and opportunities posed by national and global multilingualism.


• Making Public Transit Work for You - A multilingual video on using public transit



• Opportunities Under TANF for Serving Refugee and Immigrant Families: A Checklist for State and Local Policymakers (from the National Conference of State Legislatures)
  The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program provides states with significant flexibility to help low-income families obtain and maintain employment and to improve their economic circumstances. A population that is facing significant hurdles in the new TANF program are legal immigrant and refugee families, due to language and cultural barriers and the new federal bars and limits on assistance. In the fall of 2000, NCSL's Immigrant Policy Project conducted an informal survey to identify state initiatives in providing or adapting TANF-funded services and programs for refugees, immigrants and/or non-English speaking clients. (Exerpt from article)



• Language Access: Giving Immigrants a Hand in Navigating the Health Care System (from the National Conference of State Legislatures)
  (From NCSL's State Health Notes, volume 23, number 381, October 7, 2002)

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