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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 6 January — Día de los Reyes / Three Kings. Larger than Santa in some Puerto Rican rooms. Literacy for scheduling. Not a costume for staff.
Calendar 25 July is contested public memory: 1898 U.S. landing, and Constitution Day of the commonwealth. 19 November is marked in some public life. You do not referee independence versus commonwealth versus statehood on a case note. Listen if they name a day.
Hurricane María — September 2017 — is displacement literacy, not a holiday. Hispanic Heritage Month is the umbrella calendar. It is not this people’s day and not consultation. Not Cinco de Mayo. Not Mexican 16 September. Do not put “Latino holiday” on a case note. A calendar click is not community engagement and not a day off the work.
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: 6 January — Día de los Reyes / Three Kings. Larger than Santa in some Puerto Rican rooms. Literacy for scheduling. Not a costume for staff. Calendar 25 July is contested public memory: 1898 U.S. landing, and…
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 · Puerto Rican 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. 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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