6 minutes
Lived experience and trust · Hair, Dress, and Body Turn hair, dress, and body, health-care and human-service encounters into a more respectful, usable decision.
What you’ll be able to do Identify how lived experience and institutional trust may affect entry, burden, and follow-through. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: What keeps the learning useful instead of turning it into a stereotype? Document a next step for Lived experience and trust · Hair, Dress, and Body: Use Hair, Dress, and Body, Health-care and Human-service Encounters as a hypothesis in one live plan; verify the relevant detail with the affected person or a named community partner, then record the change, owner, review date, and report-back. Hair, Dress, and Body Longyi and thanaka among some Bamar — not a daily uniform in a Worthington plant. Karen and Chin traditional dress is public at New Year, not a clinic outfit. Muslim covering among some Rohingya. Second generation looks like Minnesota.
Dress Do not ask if they “still wear the costume.” Do not touch hair or thanaka. Do not mash with Hmong New Year dress or Somali hijab.
Follow this person. Gender match if she wants it.
Put hair, dress, and body to work What you can change You control whether hair, dress, and body is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for Do not ask if they “still wear the costume.” Do not touch. Follow this person.
Your next step Use this evidence as a hypothesis in your next plan, then confirm the relevant detail with the person or the community partner you named.
Health-care and Human-service Encounters Who is actually in the room. 67 percent LEP. Literacy of the form. Greater Minnesota clinic with no interpreter on site. Church vs monastery vs mosque. Camp health history. Rohingya language not Burmese by default.
Language Confirm people and language. Offer gender match. Ask who should hear. Do not make staff the interpreter.
The meeting Believe reported pain. Mandated reporting still exists.
Put health-care and human-service encounters to work What you can change You control whether health-care and human-service encounters is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for Confirm people and language. Offer gender match. Believe reported pain. Mandated reporting still exists. Staff are colleagues, not the curriculum. Do not treat staff.
Your next step Use this evidence as a hypothesis in your next plan, then confirm the relevant detail with the person or the community partner you named.
Practical cards Hair, Dress, and Body
Real example: Longyi and thanaka among some Bamar — not a daily uniform in a Worthington plant. Karen and Chin traditional dress is public at New Year, not a clinic outfit. Muslim covering among some Rohingya. Second gene…
Leader action: Do not ask if they “still wear the costume.” Do not touch. Follow this person.
Health-care and Human-service Encounters
Real example: Who is actually in the room. 67 percent LEP. Literacy of the form. Greater Minnesota clinic with no interpreter on site. Church vs monastery vs mosque. Camp health history. Rohingya language not Burmese by d…
Leader action: Confirm people and language. Offer gender match. Believe reported pain. Mandated reporting still exists. Staff are colleagues, not the curriculum. Do not treat staff.
I do not need a cultural performance from a professional. I need the process to make room for my name, my people, my questions, and the way I actually need to participate.
Composite public perspective — illustrative · Burmese Minnesota · Lived experience and trust Carry this forward Hair, Dress, and Body, Health-care and Human-service Encounters provide context to test, not a label to assign.
The person, household, Nation, or named community partner remains the authority on what fits.
Confirm people and language. Offer gender match. Believe reported pain. Mandated reporting still exists. Staff are colleagues, not the curriculum. Do not treat staff.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, review of a practical artifact, and a saved one-minute commitment.
Use Hair, Dress, and Body, Health-care and Human-service Encounters as a hypothesis in one live plan; verify the relevant detail with the affected person or a named community partner, then record the change, owner, review date, and report-back.
Browse and download only. Course notes are not typed or saved on this page.
Reset this lesson
Previous lesson Next lesson 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.
