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Place, institutions, and memory · Minnesota and Ukrainian History Turn minnesota and ukrainian history, українці — not a russian-speaking file, core concepts 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? Draft a briefing people can use: Ukrainian for your work, including heading 1, heading 2, real text. Minnesota and Ukrainian History Minnesota holds a Ukrainian community large enough for a Compass profile and large enough that this department will meet it on waivers, child welfare, health care, cash, food, aging, and employment — historic parish households and recent arrivals in the same week. Compass: about 22,570 (ACS 2019–2023). Greater Minnesota is 27.2 percent. Do not write this people as a Minneapolis anecdote.
Places Places, not a blob: Twin Cities; inner-ring suburbs; Greater Minnesota towns. Do not write “the Ukrainian neighborhood” onto a map you do not have. Pattern now.
Partners Partners: Ukrainian Catholic parishes some families name; Ukrainian Orthodox parishes some families name; civic groups this family names; no single “Russian community center” as this people. CECLC is a department door — not the community. Pay the partner this household actually uses.
Do not extract Ukrainian staff as the interpreter or as “the community.” A liturgy is optional professional development if you are invited. You are a guest. It does not make you the expert.
Put minnesota and ukrainian history to work What you can change You control whether minnesota and ukrainian history is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for Partners, not a harvest list. Staff are colleagues, not the curriculum. Do not treat Ukrainian staff. Guest at a liturgy if invited. A festival visit does not make you the expert.
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.
Українці — not a Russian-speaking file To be Ukrainian in Minnesota is to be a people with a country and a language, filed under white in a building that may skip the interpreter and skip the page. Face, parish, and not shaming the name travel into a waiver meeting. Harmony can look like agreement and then a plan nobody follows. Ask whether they agree. Do not take a smile as consent.
In this state 2022 sits in the room for some and is a news cycle for others. Historic parish families, 1990s arrivals, 2014, U.S.-born children, and last year’s parole household do not share one Tuesday. You do not referee. You do not put a war slogan on a case note as color.
In the United States another fact sits on the same desk: many Ukrainian Minnesotans are read as white. The building’s unmarked default will skip Ukrainian, skip the patronymic, and call that fairness. That skip is the gate. White appearance is not English proficiency and not the absence of a people.
This guide is a working orientation. Individual variation always supersedes group generalization. Always defer to the person in front of you.
Put українці — not a russian-speaking file to work What you can change You control whether українці — not a russian-speaking file is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for Do not fold this household into “Eastern European” or into the Russian CLAS door. Do not copy a Russian, Polish, or “white Minnesota” sentence onto this page.
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.
Core Concepts Ukrainian, not Russian as a synonym. The first grammar. If you open the Russian door because the face is white and the name looks Slavic, you do not have a household yet.
Language of the home, asked Book Ukrainian if that is the language. Russian only if this household asks for Russian. After 2022, a Russian interpreter can be a political door. Confirm.
Patronymic Given name, father’s name as a middle element, family name. Dropping it invents a person. Filing it wrong invents a person. Ask.
Parish as a channel, not the community Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Orthodox, evangelical, none. Do not make a priest the case plan unless this family asked.
Historic versus 2022 A third-generation English-dominant household and a parole arrival are not one file. You do not interrogate loyalty. You do the form.
White appearance is not English The skip is the gate.
Put core concepts to work What you can change You control whether core concepts is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for You work with these. You do not perform them. Do not make a priest the case plan unless this family asked. Book Ukrainian if that is the language.
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 Minnesota and Ukrainian History
Real example: Minnesota holds a Ukrainian community large enough for a Compass profile and large enough that this department will meet it on waivers, child welfare, health care, cash, food, aging, and employment — histori…
Leader action: Partners, not a harvest list. Staff are colleagues, not the curriculum. Do not treat Ukrainian staff. Guest at a liturgy if invited. A festival visit does not make you the expert.
Українці — not a Russian-speaking file
Real example: To be Ukrainian in Minnesota is to be a people with a country and a language, filed under white in a building that may skip the interpreter and skip the page. Face, parish, and not shaming the name travel in…
Leader action: Do not fold this household into “Eastern European” or into the Russian CLAS door. Do not copy a Russian, Polish, or “white Minnesota” sentence onto this page.
Core Concepts
Real example: Ukrainian, not Russian as a synonym. The first grammar. If you open the Russian door because the face is white and the name looks Slavic, you do not have a household yet. Language of the home, asked Book Ukr…
Leader action: You work with these. You do not perform them. Do not make a priest the case plan unless this family asked. Book Ukrainian if that is the language.
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 · Ukrainian Minnesota · Place, institutions, and memory A briefing people can use: Ukrainian The document is not finished when it looks polished. It is finished when people can search it, navigate it, hear it with assistive technology, and find the action they need.
Heading 1 Ukrainian Minnesota — what to know
Heading 2 What this means for the service decision
Real text Names, dates, and instructions remain selectable and searchable; no scan-only pages.
Reading order Headings, lists, tables, and image descriptions are tagged in the order a person needs them.
Source note Counts and historical claims carry a date and a source, not an unmarked statistic.
Open the file with keyboard navigation or a screen reader before publishing, then fix the barrier instead of sending a second format as an afterthought.
Browse and download only. Staff notes are not typed or saved on this page.
Download this published draft Carry this forward Minnesota and Ukrainian History, Українці — not a Russian-speaking file, Core Concepts provide context to test, not a label to assign.
The person, household, Nation, or named community partner remains the authority on what fits.
You work with these. You do not perform them. Do not make a priest the case plan unless this family asked. Book Ukrainian if that is the language.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, review of a practical artifact, and a saved one-minute commitment.
Use Minnesota and Ukrainian History, Українці — not a Russian-speaking file, Core Concepts 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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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.
