My shelter gets federal financial assistance -- what does that mean, and what are the potential consequences of not serving victims with disabilities?

Source: US Department of Justice
Note: This discusses Title VI obligations, but the same information applies under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability by recipients of federal financial assistance.
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Federal financial assistance includes grants, training, use of equipment, donations of surplus property, and other assistance.

Subrecipients are also covered, when federal funds are passed from one recipient to a subrecipient. Recipients of federal funds range from state and local agencies, to nonprofits and other organizations. A list of the types of recipients and the agencies funding them can be found at Executive Order 12250 Coordination of Grant-Related Civil Rights Statutes.

Title VI covers a recipient's entire program or activity. This means all parts of a recipient's operations are covered. This is true even if only one part of the recipient receives the federal assistance.

Example: DOJ provides assistance to a state department of corrections to improve a particular prison facility. All of the operations of the entire state department of corrections--not just the particular prison--are covered.

http://www.lep.gov/faqs/faqs.html


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