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Track 9
Use the name they use. Ask who may know. Do not let a form or a family veto become the plan.
35–45 minutes · 6 lessons · Voluntary learning
People with disabilities are also LGBTQ. Identity is not extra, and privacy is not optional.
A door, a house meeting, and “the family should know” are how support becomes a smaller, less safe life.
Empty chairs are data. Map whose identity we skip, and whose privacy we treat as public.
Both frames exist. Using a relative’s comfort as the plan is how a name disappears.
A repeatable method: ask the name, write the circle, fix the form, support the life, document, review.
Take this back to one person you already serve.
Bring one live work object into the application workspace. Name who it was built for, who may carry the burden, and one change or formal escalation.
A name is not a lifestyle. At the Minnesota Department of Human Services, people with disabilities are also LGBTQ — and they do not have to earn that by looking ready, or by asking a guardian's permission. If we write the wrong name on the door, or tell the house who they are dating, we did not keep them safe. We outed them. This course is a staff guide: use the name they use. Ask who may know. Do not let a form, a roommate, or a family veto become the plan. And stop treating identity as extra.
If we write the wrong name on the door, or tell the house who they are dating, we did not keep them safe. We outed them.
Use this aid while applying LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Disability Services to a live DHS work object.
Bring one live work object into the application workspace. Name who it was built for, who may carry the burden, and one change or formal escalation.
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.
Sexual orientation and gender identity are protected. Evidence, not the staff course.
What is important to someone includes name, relationships, and who they want in their life.
Rights, dignity, privacy. A restriction on relationships has to be justified.
The reporting door. Outing and harassment can belong here — do not handle them as house gossip.
Federal and state civil-rights duties in Minnesota Health Care Programs, including sex and gender identity.
Consultation is a government-to-government path. Two-Spirit is not a clinic synonym you assign.