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Dates of Significance Turn dates of significance into a more respectful, usable decision.
What you’ll be able to do Connect place, institutions, and collective memory to the DHS process that is being designed or changed. 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 Dates of Significance: Use Dates of Significance 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. Dates of Significance Seollal — Korean Lunar New Year. Family, food, sometimes hanbok. Related lunar calendar, different people from Chinese New Year and Hmong New Year and Tết. Do not put “Asian holiday” on a case note.
Calendar Chuseok — harvest / ancestral remembrance. Literacy. Not a file.
Korean War, 1950–1953, and memorial days. Literacy for the desk. Not a speech you give the family. Not a day off the work.
Adoptee gathering days, camps, and reunions are literacy, not consultation. Child Citizenship Act effective February 27, 2001 — law history, not this person’s status unless they name it.
A calendar click is not community engagement.
Put dates of significance to work What you can change You control whether dates of significance is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for A calendar click is literacy. It is not community engagement. Seollal is not Chinese New Year as a file and not Hmong New Year.
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 Dates of Significance
Real example: Seollal — Korean Lunar New Year. Family, food, sometimes hanbok. Related lunar calendar, different people from Chinese New Year and Hmong New Year and Tết. Do not put “Asian holiday” on a case note. Calendar…
Leader action: A calendar click is literacy. It is not community engagement. Seollal is not Chinese New Year as a file and not Hmong New Year.
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 · Korean Minnesota · Place, institutions, and memory Carry this forward Dates of Significance provide context to test, not a label to assign.
The person, household, Nation, or named community partner remains the authority on what fits.
A calendar click is literacy. It is not community engagement. Seollal is not Chinese New Year as a file and not Hmong New Year.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, review of a practical artifact, and a saved one-minute commitment.
Use Dates of Significance 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.
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