Audit Process + Strategies
These should be reviewed by auditors before going on an audit.
What is the self-assessment, desktop review, and desktop analysis?
These three localities were part of the pilot for the Welcoming Standard 2.0
What is Tulsa, Champaign, and San Mateo?
Evidence should typically be less than this many years old.
What is four?
Auditors have access to this in the portal.
What is their assigned locality?
These are the three ways criteria might be marked in the desktop analysis by WA.
What is not-compliant, compliant, and audit priority?
Welcoming America grew out of this organization.
What is the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition?
This document has background research about demographics, structure of the local government, elected officials, state context, and more.
What is the desktop review?
This allows you to save a specific criteria in the portal.
What is a bookmark?
This is used to introduce WA and CW at the beginning of every audit interview.
What is the spiel?
This is the international standard setting organization Welcoming America follows in its standard system design and certification development.
What is ISEAL?
These are key parameters in evidence.
What is relevance, timeliness, sustainability, clarity/specificity, and connection to community?
This allows you to track progress.
What is color charting?
Avoid asking these types of questions in an interview.
What is a leading question?
This is the year Welcoming America started.
What is 2009?
These questions guide analysis related to size and location.
What is scope and scale?
This section is required to be written in.
What is evidence?
Sharing resources or personal thoughts is accepted if you do this.
What is 'take auditor hat' off?
This staff member has been at Welcoming America the longest.
Who is Meg?
These questions guide analysis based on community profile.
What are demographics and community composition?