Sec. 6. Support for title ix coordinators
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The Director shall provide coordination, training, technical assistance, and support for title IX coordinators to ensure that educational entities are able to fully implement title IX and reduce and prevent sex discrimination in all areas of education. Not less than once a year, the Director shall conduct a training for all title IX coordinators. The training may be conducted in partnership with a national organization with relevant expertise, and may be completed online or in person. The training described in paragraph
(1)shall include the following information: The role and responsibility of title IX coordinators. Best practices for increasing awareness about rights and obligations under title IX. Best practices for investigating and responding to claims of violations of title IX. Best practices for identifying and preventing implicit and explicit sex discrimination in all areas of education, including— recruitment and admissions; teaching practices, textbooks, and curricula; campus safety and security; financial assistance; access to facilities, resources, and housing; access to course offerings; student health services and insurance benefits; counseling and career guidance; athletics; discipline policies; employment; and other areas that the Director determines are relevant for such purposes. The Director shall take steps to ensure that the trainings described in paragraph (1)— are adapted, as necessary, to address issues of sex discrimination at all levels of education; are updated with the latest evidence-based best practices; and address recent trends in sex discrimination. The Director shall take steps to ensure that such trainings include attention to students who face discrimination based on multiple characteristics, including— race; ethnicity; national origin; disability status; religion; age; or actual or perceived sex (including sexual orientation or gender identity). The Director shall— develop and conduct pre- and post-training evaluations to assess the effectiveness of such trainings in improving the knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of title IX coordinators; and use such evaluations to update the title IX coordinator trainings annually. The Director shall develop a handbook for conducting self-evaluations of compliance with title IX in all areas of education, as described in subsection (b)(2)(D). The Director shall collect relevant data and statistics on all title IX coordinators, including salary information, budgets, and primary roles, in order to make recommendations for improving title IX coordinator support. The Director shall ensure that the workplace contact information of all title IX coordinators and any training materials or information developed under this section are made available on the Office of Gender Equity resource center website, described in section 5(b)(5).