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Cultural Intelligence · Communities
Distinguish Sudanese and South Sudanese Minnesotans, describe their many peoples, languages and faiths, and plan DHS service that meets current needs without asking people to recount conflict.
About 48 minutes, plus optional practice · 4 lessons · Voluntary learning
Summarize the main conflicts that led to displacement from Sudan and South Sudan.
Describe the ethnic and linguistic diversity of Sudan and South Sudan.
Describe how extended family and kinship can shape households and decisions.
Identify service barriers facing both long-settled and recently arrived Sudanese and South Sudanese Minnesotans.
Write two or three neutral phrases you could use in case notes to record a family emergency or hardship without recording traumatic details. Check them against your program's documentation guidance.
Distinguish Sudanese and South Sudanese Minnesotans, describe their many peoples, languages and faiths, and plan DHS service that meets current needs without asking people to recount conflict.
Write two or three neutral phrases you could use in case notes to record a family emergency or hardship without recording traumatic details. Check them against your program's documentation guidance.
Participation and course completion in this program do not count toward DHS-required training credits unless management, a director, or DHS leadership expressly approves an exception.
Supports Sudan's more than 500 ethnic groups and 400 languages, Arabic as official language, Darfur communities, the 2005 peace agreement, the 2011 referendum, and displacement of about 12 million since the war that began in April 2023 (figure as of October 2025).
Supports more than 70 languages, Dinka and Nuer as the largest groups, main religions, and the civil war that began in December 2013. Population shares are estimates.
Supports civil war deaths and displacement figures, camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, about 400 Nuer settling in the Twin Cities in the 1990s, secondary migration, and Nile Our Savior Lutheran Church.
Supports a South Sudanese Dinka worshiping community in Rochester since 2005 with services in Dinka. Congregation's self-description.
Supports 59 primary arrivals from Sudan and 43 from South Sudan in 2024. Primary arrivals only.
Supports 1,161 cumulative primary arrivals from Sudan, concentrated in the mid-1990s and early 2000s, and 104 from South Sudan, mostly in 2023 and 2024. Excludes secondary migrants.
Supports the financial and emotional strain on Sudanese Minnesotans supporting relatives during the war. Journalistic account of individual experiences.