Auditor Role & Strategies
A responsibility of a lead auditor, but not a responsibility of a co-auditor / 2025 peer auditor.
What is writing the certification report?
Number of star designations.
What is 5?
Number of framework areas in the Welcoming Standard.
What is 7?
This framework area includes criteria about developing immigrant leadership as well as access to participating in boards and commissions.
What is civic engagement?
This is the first Certified Welcoming city.
What is Dayton, OH?
A core benefit of co-auditing (having a team vs. auditing on your own).
What is mitigating bias, OR rigorous analysis, OR time management, OR energy support?
The process of collecting evidence and submitting it for review?
What is a self-assessment?
The intent of this is to ensure there is a collective impact model for immigrant inclusion.
What is a group?
This framework area's goal includes creating opportunities for immigrant and non-immigrant residents to have constructive interactions, develop relationships, and deepen their understanding of each other.
What is connected communities?
Welcoming America is a member of this international sustainability standard setting organization.
What is ISEAL?
If this risk to impartiality is identified, an audit will be assigned to a different auditor.
What is a conflict of interest?
If not fully compliant with the criteria, a locality must submit this to receive its star designation.
What is additional evidence?
Although full-time equivalency isn't noted, this is required in all local governments to become Certified Welcoming.
What is a staff member whose job duties include immigrant inclusion work?
Criteria in this framework address access to maternal and infant health care.
What is equitable access?
This Welcoming America staff member manages Certified Welcoming’s compliance, data, and research operations.
What is Beyza Burçak Klein?
This is expected during auditor notetaking but must never be included in the official certification report?
What is interviewee names OR direct quotes.
After 4 years of being Certified Welcoming, a locality must go through this to maintain its designation.
What is recertification?
Within the safe communities framework, this question is typically from counties about their Sheriff’s office?
What is, “if the Sheriff is separately elected, is compliance required?”
These entities are required to be compliant even if they are not under the jurisdiction of the local government seeking certification.
What is school districts?
Currently, this is the highest star designation any locality has achieved.
What is 4-star?
This is the total number of key parameters of evidence in the Certified Welcoming Assessment Guidelines for Auditors?
What is five?
(1- relevance, 2- timeliness, 3- sustainability, 4- clarity and specificity, and 5- connection to community needs)
This is the total number of criteria in the Welcoming Standard 2.0.
What is 106?
Engaging these to adopt and implement welcoming policies and programs are expected to create a more welcoming region.
What are other cities, suburbs, or counties?
Early childhood education is only addressed in which star designations of the Education framework?
What are 4 and 5 star designations?
This term is used to note criteria that are not required to be fulfilled by a local government or specific agency.
What is a program?