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Disability Inclusion · Practitioner
Read the ADA, Section 504, Section 508, the Minnesota Human Rights Act and the Olmstead Plan as duties your organization owns, then know exactly who answers which question.
45–55 minutes · 4 lessons · Voluntary learning
See what the ADA, Section 504, Section 508, the Minnesota Human Rights Act and the Olmstead Plan each ask of a public human-services agency, and where they overlap.
Learn why an organization can meet every legal requirement and still leave people out, and how to ask the next three questions.
Find the sentences in ordinary policies, postings and procedures that quietly exclude people, and rewrite them without losing the legitimate purpose.
Turn the duties into a working map of who answers what, so a question reaches the right office the first time and the person hears what happens next.
Take one policy, procedure or form your unit owns. Mark every sentence that dictates a single method of participation, and write the referral you would make if a person could not use that method.
Most of the people who make disability inclusion real in a public agency are not lawyers. They are supervisors, coordinators, analysts and trainers who need to understand what the organization owes people and where a question should go. This course reads five sources of duty, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504, Section 508, the Minnesota Human Rights Act and the Minnesota Olmstead Plan, as organizational responsibilities in employment, programs, services, communication and digital environments. You will learn to tell compliance, accessibility, equity and belonging apart, to spot policy language that builds barriers, and to build a referral map for your own team.
Recognize the duty. Route it to the owner. Support the person now. Follow up until they hear back.
Keep the five sources of duty, the four questions and the referral routes in view when a colleague brings you something.
Fill your unit’s referral map with confirmed names and routes, and test one route yourself.
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.
Plain-language overview of the ADA’s titles, Section 504, Section 508 and related federal laws, with the agencies that enforce each.
Regional centers offering ADA information, guidance and training for employers, state and local governments and the public.
The federal agency’s explanation of the interactive process, reasonable accommodation and undue hardship under Title I.
Section 504 and disability rights information for federally funded health and human services programs, including how to file a complaint.
How DHS carries out Minnesota’s Olmstead Plan commitments to integrated settings and measurable progress.
State council providing information on Minnesota disability law, accessibility and policy for agencies and the public.