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Cultural Intelligence · Communities
Recognize the variety of religious and nonreligious life in Minnesota and plan services, meetings and accommodations that respect it without guessing.
About 55 minutes, plus optional practice · 5 lessons · Voluntary learning
Describe the broad shape of religious life in Minnesota using dated survey data and its limits.
Distinguish the main Lutheran church bodies and explain why they are not interchangeable.
Describe the diversity of Muslim Minnesotans by origin, tradition and practice.
Explain why Dakota and Anishinaabe ceremony is connected to Tribal nationhood and government-to-government relations.
Plan meetings and deadlines with a calendar that accounts for major religious observances.
Before your next team event or major deadline, check an interfaith calendar, add a dietary needs question to the invitation, and note who in Human Resources handles religious accommodation requests for your unit.
Recognize the variety of religious and nonreligious life in Minnesota and plan services, meetings and accommodations that respect it without guessing.
Before your next team event or major deadline, check an interfaith calendar, add a dietary needs question to the invitation, and note who in Human Resources handles religious accommodation requests for your unit.
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.
Statewide shares for Christian, evangelical, mainline, Catholic and unaffiliated adults from the 2023-24 study, margin of error about plus or minus six points. Small groups such as Jewish and Muslim adults cannot be estimated precisely; use as a dated snapshot, not a description of individuals.
Title VII duty to accommodate religious beliefs and practices, the Groff v. DeJoy (2023) undue hardship standard, common accommodations, dress and grooming, and religious harassment.
State guidance on religious accommodation (holy days, prayer breaks, dress codes) and the Minn. Stat. 15A.22 right of public employees to days off for religious holidays. Human Resources makes formal determinations.
Text of the federal policy protecting the right of American Indians to believe, express and exercise traditional religions, including sites, sacred objects and ceremonies. States policy; does not describe individual practice.
Confirms the eleven Tribal nations that share geography with Minnesota and the Council's role in protecting Tribal sovereignty. Tribal consultation itself runs through each agency's policy and Tribal liaison.
Education on Judaism and antisemitism and community security work in Minnesota. A resource and partner, not a spokesperson for any individual's practice.
Civil rights education, incident reporting and know-your-rights resources for Muslim Minnesotans. A resource and partner, not a spokesperson for any individual's practice.