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OCR’s Outreach, Prevention, Education and Non-discrimination (OPEN) Center focuses on strengthening civil rights compliance through voluntary, proactive, and targeted support to recipients and the public.
The OPEN Center provides technical assistance and support to schools, educators, families, and students to ensure better awareness of the requirements and protections of federal non-discrimination laws. The OPEN Center’s dedicated team of civil rights attorneys ensure that technical assistance is high-quality, accurate, thorough, and legally sound.
While OCR typically enforces federal civil rights laws through the traditional complaint-resolution process, OCR, through the provision of targeted support to recipient institutions and the public, also works more proactively through the OPEN Center—prior to the filing of complaints—to ensure that schools are aware of their obligations under federal civil rights law. By investing resources in technical assistance and public education, OCR provides not only much-needed assistance to recipients, but also better support to students, families, and stakeholders.
Requests for technical assistance with the laws enforced by OCR can be sent to OPEN@ed.gov. Questions regarding Title IX can also be sent to T9questions@ed.gov. For additional information on OCR’s policy guidance a link to OCR’s Policy Portal is here.
Please note: OCR’s presentations, included below, provide general information and may not represent a complete recitation of the applicable law and OCR policy in these areas. They do not address specific issues of compliance because determinations of compliance are fact-specific and made on a case-by-case basis. The language used in these slides is approved for the purposes of these presentations only and should not be used for other purposes.
OPEN Center Search
Search the OPEN Center’s repository of technical assistance responses provided to members the public.
- OCR Title IX Webinar: Bias and Conflicts of Interest (Length: 00:11:27)
- OCR Title IX Webinar: Regional Centers and School Consortia (Length: 00:08:33)
- How to File a Complaint with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) (Length: 00:05:41)
- Conducting and Adjudicating Title IX Hearings: An OCR Training Webinar (Length: 00:18:42)
- How to Report Sexual Harassment Under Title IX (Length: 00:13:34)
- New Title IX Protections Against Sexual Assault (Length: 00:16:47)
- Due Process Protections under Title IX (Length: 00:16:48)
- OCR Webinar: Title IX Regulations Addressing Sexual Harassment (Length: 01:11:29)
- OCR Short Webinar: How to File a Complaint Webcast (Length: 00:06:58) 04/24/2020
- OCR Short Webinar: OCR 100: An Introduction to Federal Civil Rights Protections in Education Webcast (Length: 00:06:03) 04/16/2020
- OCR Short Webinar on Updates to Perkins and Methods of Administration Programs Webcast (Length: 00:07:53) 03/13/2020
- OCR Short Webinar on Sexual Violence in Public Schools Webcast (Length: 00:06:55) 03/09/2020
- OCR Short Webinar on Online Education and Website Accessibility Webinar (Length: 00:07:08)
- Students with Disabilities and the Use of Restraint and Seclusion in K-12 Public Schools Webcast (Length: 00:46:09)
- Archive
- OCR Title IX Webinar: Bias, Conflicts of Interest, and Trauma-Informed Practices Script PDF (160K)
- OCR Title IX Webinar: Regional Centers and School Consortia Script PDF (126K)
- Part 1: Questions and Answers Regarding the Department’s Title IX Regulations PDF (269.38K)
- Part 2: Questions and Answers Regarding the Department’s Title IX Regulations PDF (294.34K)
- Repository of All OPEN Center Title IX Answers PDF (887.56K)
- Questions and Answers for K-12 Public Schools In the Current COVID-19 Environment PDF (225.05K)
- Questions and Answers Regarding the Department’s Final Title IX Rule PDF (297.19K)
- Title IX Regulations Addressing Sexual Harassment (Unofficial Copy) PDF (6M)
- Title IX: Fact Sheet: Final Title IX Regulations PDF (209K)
- Title IX: U.S. Department of Education Title IX Final Rule Overview PDF (553K)
- Title IX: Summary of Major Provisions of the Department of Education’s Title IX Final Rule PDF (675K)
- Title IX: Summary of Major Provisions of the Department of Education’s Title IX Final Rule and Comparison to the NPRM PDF (706K)
- OCR Webinar: Title IX Regulations Addressing Sexual Harassment Webinar (Length: 01:11:29) 05/06/2020
- OCR Short Webinar: How to File a Complaint Webcast (Length: 00:06:58) 04/24/2020
- Archive