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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 A calendar click is literacy for scheduling. It is not community engagement.
Calendar Hispanic Heritage Month — September 15 to October 15. Tied to independence days (Mexico September 16; several Central American republics September 15; Chile September 18). Literacy for the meeting. A poster is not language access. A Heritage Month table is not consultation.
Día de los Muertos — November 1–2. Public history in Minnesota. Guest if you are in a public ofrenda space. Not a file. Not a costume for staff.
Our Lady of Guadalupe — December 12. Major for many Mexican Catholic families. Las Posadas in some Mexican streams (mid-December). Día de los Reyes / Three Kings — January 6. Holy Week. Quinceañera is family-religious time, not a case note.
Independence days and national holidays vary by origin. Puerto Rican households may mark distinct days. Do not put “Latino holiday” on a case note. Ask.
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. Do not put “Latino holiday” on a case note.
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: A calendar click is literacy for scheduling. It is not community engagement. Calendar Hispanic Heritage Month — September 15 to October 15. Tied to independence days (Mexico September 16; several Central Ame…
Leader action: A calendar click is literacy. It is not community engagement. Do not put “Latino holiday” on a case note.
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 · Latino / Hispanic Minnesota (disaggregate) · 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. Do not put “Latino holiday” on a case note.
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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Previous lesson Next lesson Carry this into practice Explore the diversity hidden by a broad Latino or Hispanic label, then ask about each person's language, access, and priorities.
Return to the experience: What did you notice or try, whose perspective informed it, and what would you keep or adjust?
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.
