7 minutes
Practice on live work Take this back to one person you already serve.
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 Family and Natural Support Systems. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: What should happen before the work is locked? 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 “family will handle it” line gets a yes, a limit, and a backup — or comes off.
From evidence to ordinary work You now have a definition of a chosen circle, a pattern for dump and shutout, a chair test, two frames, and a six-move loop. This lesson turns that into one person you already serve — not a special “family project.”
In this lesson Choose one person and run the chair test.
Practice a repair that does not blame the relative or the person.
Set a seven-day practice transfer.
Know the job aid and the formal doors you must not skip.
If we write a mother’s nights into the plan without asking her, we did not honor family. We used her.
Lesson 1, to take with you Three approaches, used together Fix the next meeting Apply the job aid to one person. Ask who, ask what they can do, name the work, fund the gap. Small and complete.
Fix one template The unit’s planning form. If it cannot hold a friend, a limit, and respite, every future meeting will dump or shut out.
Fix the culture tell If “good families handle it unpaid” is the applause line, interrupt it. If a quiet unpaid night is praised as loyalty, stop praising it.
Repair without theater You will have written unpaid nights without a yes, or left a friend in the hall. Repair is: name the miss, ask now, write the limit, put respite or paid hours in the gap, invite the person they named, and skip the speech that makes them comfort you. “We should have asked you months ago. We are asking now. You can say no. We will fund the gap.”
Seven-day list Pick one person whose plan says “family” without a named yes. Ask them who they want. Ask the unpaid person what they can actually do.
Write one limit and one backup — or take the unpaid line off and fund the gap.
Invite one person they named who has been in the hallway.
Tell your team that unpaid nights are not the applause line — then follow it when the first no is inconvenient.
Sort these practice moves Ask one unpaid person what they can actually do, with a chance to say no.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Report suspected maltreatment instead of calling it family conflict.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Write “family will handle nights” without a yes.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Put respite or paid hours in one gap you heard this week.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Leave a chosen partner in the lobby to keep the meeting small.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Check matches Reset If we shut out the people the person wants in the room, we did not protect them. We isolated them.
Lesson 2, to take with you What to do next Open the Circle-and-Respite Job Aid and keep it beside your next planning meeting. This course is original One DHS instructional content for staff practice. For maltreatment, licensing restrictions, guardianship, and Tribal consultation, use those formal doors. This is not a substitute for them.
Put this lesson to work What you can change You control whether practice on live work changes a live DHS process connected to Family and Natural Support Systems 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 Take this back to one person you already serve.
You control whether practice on live work changes a live DHS process connected to Family and Natural Support Systems 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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