7 minutes
Practice on live work Finish the packet on one live piece of work you already named.
What you’ll be able to do Identify the practical implication of “Practice on live work” and apply it to one live DHS decision connected to DHS Equity Analysis Toolkit. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: When should the method be used? Document a next step for Practice on live work: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed. The course ends when one live packet names who is harmed, who benefits, and who is accountable — before the lock.
From evidence to ordinary work You now have a definition of the toolkit, a pattern for the skip, a chair test for “everyone,” two frames, and the eight-step loop. This lesson turns that into the one piece of work you named in lesson 1 — not a sample from another unit.
In this lesson Finish or repair one live packet.
Practice a repair that does not make Equity staff the author of your miss.
Set a seven-day practice transfer.
Know the job aid and the formal doors you must not skip.
If you cannot name who is harmed and who benefits, you are not done.
The intro, to take with you Three approaches, used together Fix the next packet Apply the job aid to the work you named. Short lines. Groups. Design change. Dates. Small and complete.
Fix one template The unit’s decision memo or leadership cover. If it cannot hold groups, a burden, and an owner, every future packet will be a cover sheet.
Fix the culture tell If “we’ll monitor” is the applause line, interrupt it. If a blank toolkit is praised as on time, stop praising it.
Repair without theater You will have shipped a cover sheet. Repair is: name the miss, name the groups, change the design or the date, put owners on the calendar, sit with the equity director, and skip the speech that makes them comfort you. “We should have named who pays before the vote. We are naming it now. We can still change the launch.”
Apply this — this week Finish steps 1–8 on the work you named in lesson 1 — or repair the packet that already moved.
Sit with your equity director or committee before the next approval date.
Put the three accountability dates on a real calendar, with names.
Tell your team that a blank toolkit is not the applause line — then follow it when Friday is inconvenient.
Sort these practice moves Name three groups and one design change on a live packet.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Call EOAD when the change is a civil-rights access issue.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Attach a blank toolkit after the decision.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Put three review dates on a calendar with names.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Launch an unfunded “phone path” as the mitigation.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Check matches Reset If the decision is already made and the toolkit is a cover sheet, you are not doing an analysis. You are decorating a choice.
Lesson 1, to take with you What to do next Open the Toolkit Walkthrough Job Aid and keep it on the packet. Use the official DHS Equity Analysis Toolkit and User Guide for the form you file. This course is original One DHS instructional content. It is not a substitute for the official tool, equity-director consultation, civil rights, or Tribal consultation.
Put this lesson to work What you can change You control whether practice on live work changes a live DHS process connected to DHS Equity Analysis Toolkit or remains information on a page.
What to watch for The team completes the learning, keeps the same default, assigns no owner, and never checks who carries the burden.
Your next step Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Carry this forward Finish the packet on one live piece of work you already named.
You control whether practice on live work changes a live DHS process connected to DHS Equity Analysis Toolkit or remains information on a page.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, a knowledge-check response, a completed sort and a saved one-minute commitment.
Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.
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