Who is removed — the numbers the state already publishes · How It Shows Up in Minnesota Human Services

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.

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.

Try a situation

A team must finalize work connected to who is removed — the numbers the state already publishes this week. The usual process is ready, but the people affected, access needs, burden, and follow-through have not been checked.

What should happen before the work is locked?

Use the usual process now and ask for feedback after implementation.

Ask one colleague with relevant lived experience to approve the plan.

Name the live object, affected people, access and formal requirements, alternatives, owner, and review date.

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.

Your next step

What will you do differently this week after Who is removed — the numbers the state already publishes?

Apply this lesson to one live work object connected to How It Shows Up in Minnesota Human Services.

Name the affected people, one process change, the owner, and a review date.

Use the right-door guide if a formal duty or accountable office may be involved.

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.

Discipline

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.

Try a situation

What should happen before the work is locked?

Use the usual process now and ask for feedback after implementation.

Ask one colleague with relevant lived experience to approve the plan.

Name the live object, affected people, access and formal requirements, alternatives, owner, and review date.

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.

Your next step

What will you do differently this week after Who is removed — the numbers the state already publishes?

Apply this lesson to one live work object connected to How It Shows Up in Minnesota Human Services.

Name the affected people, one process change, the owner, and a review date.

Use the right-door guide if a formal duty or accountable office may be involved.