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Who is removed — the numbers the state already publishes Out-of-home care and child-protection involvement. Disparity first. Cause second.
What you’ll be able to do Identify the practical implication of “Who is removed — the numbers the state already publishes” and apply it to one live DHS decision connected to How It Shows Up in Minnesota Human Services. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: What should happen before the work is locked? Document a next step for Who is removed — the numbers the state already publishes: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed. 2023 public reporting of DHS-5408PA-ENG: Black and Hispanic youth about twice as likely as white children to be in out-of-home care; American Indian / Native youth about sixteen times as likely. DCYF summary in the MAAFPCWDA context (2025): African American children 16% of child population and 29% of cases; American Indian 4% of population and 20% of cases; Hispanic / Latine 10% and 12%. A gap is a disparity. Discipline These are observations the state already prints. They do not, by themselves, prove a particular worker discriminated. They also do not get to be “national politics.” Minnesota has named the pattern in statute (the 2024 African American Family Preservation and Child Welfare Disproportionality Act). Implementation has been contested. A law can name a gap. A process still has to be looked at.
In this lesson you will Read a relative-rate chart and a population-versus-cases chart.
Refuse both “every removal was bias” and “we mean well, so stop.”
Ask what your adjacent DHS door does for the same families.
Your turn If your administration publishes a racial breakout, write the last one you used in a decision.
If not, write that missing breakout as a finding.
Put this lesson to work What you can change You control whether who is removed — the numbers the state already publishes changes a live DHS process connected to How It Shows Up in Minnesota Human Services 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 Out-of-home care and child-protection involvement. Disparity first. Cause second.
You control whether who is removed — the numbers the state already publishes changes a live DHS process connected to How It Shows Up in Minnesota Human Services 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 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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Previous lesson Next lesson Carry this into practice Who waits, who is removed, who is hired, who is believed. Greater Minnesota is not a footnote. Tribal Nations are governments.
Return to the experience: What did you notice or try, whose perspective informed it, and what would you keep or adjust?
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