Exhibit D - OCACS Nondiscrimination Policy.docx
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- Foster Support
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- RFP IHFA 2026000277 1
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- Denver County, Denver City, Colorado
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This is an Exhibit D Nondiscrimination Policy document from the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) Office of Children, Aging, and Community Service (OCACS). The policy establishes nondiscrimination requirements for all vendors, contractors, sub-recipients, and service providers that receive OCACS funding to deliver services or benefits to clients. The document defines key terms including gender identity, gender expression, familial status, marital status, and sexual orientation to provide clarity on protected characteristics covered under the policy. Vendors and contractors are required to perform all agreement obligations in compliance with applicable Colorado nondiscrimination laws and OCACS-specific requirements.
Vendors and contractors are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, ethnic group, national origin, age, religion, mental or physical disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, familial status, pregnancy, veteran status, or HIV status. This nondiscrimination policy applies to county departments of human and social services, OCACS contractors, subcontractors, grantees, and vendors receiving funding assistance through OCACS. The policy aligns with CDHS's mission to empower Coloradans to thrive and ensures equal opportunity, civil rights, and safety for all clients served through OCACS-funded programs and services.
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Exhibit D - OCACS Nondiscrimination Policy In alignment with Colorado Department of Human Services’ (CDHS) mission, “Together, we empower Coloradans to thrive,” it is necessary to ensure the equal opportunity, civil rights, and safety of clients served through the Office of Children Aging and Community Service (OCACS) and that those that receive our funds support all of our clients.
Definitions
Gender identity: An individual's innate sense of the individual's own gender, which may or may not correspond with the individual's sex assigned at birth.
Gender expression: An individual's way of reflecting and expressing the individual's gender to the outside world, typically demonstrated through appearance, dress, and behavior.
Familial status: Status that includes children under the age of 18 in the household.
Marital status (or civil status): Distinct options that describe a person's relationship with a significant other. A person's state of being single, married, separated, divorced, or widowed. A person's specified civil status might also be married if they are in a civil union or common-law marriage. The civil status of a person who is legally separated is married.
Sexual orientation: An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people.
Sub-recipients: County departments of human/social services (county departments) and OCACS contractors, subcontractors, grantees, and vendors who receive funding assistance through OCACS in order to provide services or benefits to clients.
Vendor/Contractor agrees to act in a manner consistent with all State of Colorado applicable nondiscrimination laws, as well as the State of Colorado Department of Human Services (“CDHS”) Office of Children, Aging, and Community Service (“OCACS”) nondiscrimination terms set forth herein.
Vendor/Contractor agrees that in its performance of this agreement it shall not discriminate based on race, color, ethnic group, national origin, age, religion, mental or physical disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, familial status, pregnancy, veteran status, or HIV status (“protected characteristics”).
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