FEDERAL INTERAGENCY WORKING GROUP
ON LIMITED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY
LEP.gov was created by the Federal Interagency Working Group on Limited English Proficiency. That Working Group, made up of representatives of more than 35 federal agencies, was formed at the request of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
LEP Working Group's Mission
To build awareness of the need and methods to ensure that limited English proficient persons have meaningful access to important federal and federally assisted programs, and to ensure implementation of language access requirements under Title VI, the Title VI regulations, and Executive Order 13166 in a consistent and effective manner across agencies.
Overall Strategies:
Create an active group representative of government employees striving to ensure that LEP persons have meaningful access to federally conducted and assisted programs. The group will consist of federal employees from the civil rights, program implementation, budgeting and procurement, and other fields so that the issues addressed and strategies utilized reflect the best thinking from all of these areas.
Share, create, and help to implement tools, promising practices, technical assistance, and ideas, including high quality, cost-effective means of providing language services.
Standing and Ad Hoc Subcommittees work on issues ranging from outreach to the creation of new tools and coordination of implementation.
2007 Federal Interagency Conference on Limited English Proficiency Agenda
Department of Justice Limited English Proficiency Conference Agenda September 21, 2004