American Indian children and a government door · How It Shows Up in Minnesota Human Services

What you’ll be able to do

Identify the practical implication of “American Indian children and a government door” 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 American Indian children and a government door: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.

Do not dump this into race-as-culture

Curriculum I (intercultural) is a map of how people orient to difference. ICWA is a statute about nations and children. Consultation is a government door. If you treat an Ojibwe, Dakota, or other Nation as a “stakeholder group,” you have already Minimized a sovereignty fact.

Do this / not this

Do — ask whether ICWA or consultation applies

Before the lock. Not after the press call.

Do — keep active-efforts language with the people who own it

Do not freelance a legal standard in a staff meeting.

Do not — add “Tribal” to a racial breakout and call it consultation

A chart is not a Nation.

Put this lesson to work

What you can change

You control whether american indian children and a government door 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 american indian children and a government door 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

ICWA and Tribal consultation are not diversity modules.
You control whether american indian children and a government door 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 American Indian children and a government door?

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 “American Indian children and a government door” 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 American Indian children and a government door: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed.

Do not dump this into race-as-culture

Do this / not this

Do — ask whether ICWA or consultation applies

Before the lock. Not after the press call.

Do — keep active-efforts language with the people who own it

Do not freelance a legal standard in a staff meeting.

Do not — add “Tribal” to a racial breakout and call it consultation

A chart is not a Nation.

Put this lesson to work

What you can change

You control whether american indian children and a government door 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

ICWA and Tribal consultation are not diversity modules.
You control whether american indian children and a government door 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 American Indian children and a government door?

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.