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Toolkit
Teach the toolkit, then use it — on a real policy, budget, hire, or IT change before the decision is locked.
35–45 minutes · 6 lessons · Voluntary learning
The toolkit is a method before the lock — not a values paragraph and not a form you attach after.
A slogan, a blended average, and “we’ll monitor after launch” are how a decision gets decorated instead of analyzed.
Empty chairs are data. Name who is disproportionately affected, then write step 1 of the toolkit on your work.
Both frames exist. Using the toolkit as decoration is how a burden stays in the design.
A repeatable method: benefits and burdens, the statement, names and dates, alignment, and whether it is actually funded.
Finish the packet on one live piece of work you already named.
Bring one live work object into the application workspace. Name who it was built for, who may carry the burden, and one change or formal escalation.
An equity analysis is not a cover sheet you attach after the decision is already made. At the Minnesota Department of Human Services, the Equity Analysis Toolkit is the method: name who is affected, look at the data, hear the people who live with the result, write the benefits and the burdens, and put a date on who is accountable. This course teaches the toolkit, then walks it one step at a time. Bring a real piece of work — a policy, a budget line, a hiring process, an IT change. If you cannot name who is harmed and who benefits, you are not done.
If you cannot name who is harmed and who benefits, you are not done.
Use this aid while applying DHS Equity Analysis Toolkit to a live DHS work object.
Bring one live work object into the application workspace. Name who it was built for, who may carry the burden, and one change or formal escalation.
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.
Enterprise tool created with DHS and other agencies. Evidence, not this course.
Equity Analysis Toolkit Quick Guide and related enterprise resources.
Earlier DHS tool language on reducing inequities and improving success for all groups.
Consultation is a government-to-government path, not a listening session.
Public services protections. The toolkit does not replace civil-rights process.