Compass Consulting



Civil Rights and Regulatory Compliance

	Organizational Development [-] > Organizational Assessment > Program Evaluation > Service Teams > Cultural Competence > Trauma and Learning > Data Management
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	Civil Rights and Regulatory Compliance
	Program Development [-] > Family and Community Engagement > Social-Emotional-Behavioral Support > Case Management > Preventing/Managing Physical Crises
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Protecting the rights of special populations

When you are working to improve your effectiveness with target populations, you may need to respond to the external pressures of complaints, investigations, lawsuits, settlement agreements, or court orders. We can help you self-monitor, design corrective action plans, and implement more effective approaches.




		Consultants from COMPASS are skilled professionals; they work with our district administrators to stay focused on the issue, think critically and work together to develop and implement procedures. COMPASS Consultants are skilled in the area of maximizing the effectiveness of administrative groups in a non-threatening, non-biased and professional manner.
		- Cynthia Joyce, Director of Student Services

How we can support your efforts
• Act as a liaison with regulatory agencies, including state departments of education and the Office for Civil Rights. [-]

Represent the interests of students
Explain the perspectives of schools and districts
Manage investigations
Negotiate agreements
Facilitate working groups
Implement agreements and orders

• Monitor and address racial/linguistic disproportionality. [-]

Develop tailored approaches to internal monitoring
Design corrective actions plans
Assist in implementing corrective actions plans

• Consult in education litigation. [-]

Partner with attorneys
Provide consulting expertise
Provide testifying expertise

• Help with special education
compliance. [-]

Clarify regulatory requirements
Identify areas of non-compliance
Design locally-appropriate corrective actions
Implement action plans



	COMPASS Consulting has acted as skilled mediators by devising resolutions for problems identified at the school district by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, and then facilitating implementation of the resolutions. They understood the needs of both organizations and helped craft plans for programs that clearly benefited the students involved.
	- Carroll Brownlee, Former OCR Investigator