Civil Rights (Grant County)

All reasonable efforts are carried out to ensure equal access to the Agriculture and Natural Resource programs. Grant County Extension faculty and staff maintain dialogue and practices that ensures every effort to plan programs and events that meet all requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 program will adhere to all civil rights laws in regards to programming and employment. All newsletters, fliers and educational materials that leave the Grant County Office have the EEO and discriminatory statement. Grant County Extension Office civil rights files were reviewed by a team of NMSU-CES specialists and administration in 2009 to check for civil rights compliance. During the report of findings session with the reviewers, the Grant County Extension faculty and staff were commended for their efforts to properly maintain office files. The Grant County faculty and staff have continued to maintain the civil rights files on a regular basis as programming occurs.
Advisory boards and committees are diverse with respect to gender, ethnicity, and community representation and are representative of the population in Grant County. The USDA " and Justice for All poster showing the nondiscrimination policy statement and how to file a civil rights complaint are prominently displayed in office areas.
There is equality, fairness, and respect in the use of Extension work facilities, including support for educators, paraprofessionals, secretarial and support staff.
A civil rights review was performed for Grant County, with a positive outcome.
All county residents are informed of Extension programs regardless of race, religion, disability. The civil rights file is maintained in the extension office and is available for review at any time.

All reasonable efforts are carried out to ensure equal access and integration of 4-H clubs and programs. Grant County CES program will adhere to all civil rights laws in regards to programming and employment. All newsletters, fliers and educational materials that leave the Grant County Office have the EEO and discriminatory statement.
Advisory boards and committees are diverse with respect to gender, ethnicity, and community representation and are representative of the population in Grant County. The USDA " and Justice for All poster showing the nondiscrimination policy statement and how to file a civil rights complaint are prominently displayed in office areas.
There is equality, fairness, and respect in the use of Extension work facilities, including support for educators, paraprofessionals, secretarial and support staff.
A civil rights review was performed for Grant County, with a positive outcome.

All Grant County Faculty and staff participated in a Civil Rights Centra Session on 1/10/07 presented by Lori Osborn viewed the archived version at a later date. Grant County Extension also talks about Civil Rights at all staff meetings.

Grant County Extension Faculty and staff maintain dialogue that ensures every effort to plan programs meets all requirements of Civil Rights. All Grant County Extension programs have the EEO statements and disability compliant on all materials. A conscious effort to include all audiences in our programs are made.

Current makeup of the Advisory Committee was studied and changes were made to make sure that representatives from underserved audiences are in representation. An advisory committee has meet and is active in the programming efforts for Grant County Extension Service.