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Diversity learning · Advanced
Use a well-known framework to question whose knowledge counts, how decisions are made, and what changes in practice could make public service more equitable.
About 48 minutes, plus optional practice · 4 lessons · Voluntary learning
All diversity courses: Foundation, Intermediate, and Advanced
Explain what the framework is intended to examine.
Describe several characteristics in the source framework without treating them as fixed traits.
Identify where decision authority sits in a routine process.
Select a process change within an appropriate role.
Complete the job aid for the fictional guide or a nonidentifying process you can influence. Name the purpose, a possible barrier, the evidence to seek, the responsible decision-maker, one change, and a review date. Use the established equity-analysis and workplace channels for an actual decision.
Examine familiar workplace routines through a framework about power and participation. Consider the evidence, avoid labeling people, and practice one change that can be reviewed.
Use a well-known framework to question whose knowledge counts, how decisions are made, and what changes in practice could make public service more equitable.
Complete the job aid for the fictional guide or a nonidentifying process you can influence. Name the purpose, a possible barrier, the evidence to seek, the responsible decision-maker, one change, and a review date. Use the established equity-analysis and workplace channels for an actual decision.
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.
The primary framework. Okun describes it as an analytical tool, cautions against using it to accuse people, and distinguishes high standards from perfectionism and sound writing from treating written words as the only valid knowledge. The framework draws on practice and reflection; the original list was not an empirical diagnostic instrument.
Companion principles for shared power, accountability, and more equitable ways of working. Read alongside the characteristics, as the author recommends.
Agency policy on considering equity in daily work and using the DHS Equity Analysis Toolkit for decisions across policy, budgets, procurement, hiring, and service delivery. This course is learning material, not a substitute for the policy.
A state-government resource for asking who is affected, engaging people meaningfully, and reviewing equity impacts in a decision.
A peer-reviewed review finding mixed results from interventions to improve psychological safety and voice. It supports checking effects rather than assuming a single workshop or invitation changes a workplace.