7 minutes
Practice this week Take this back to one person you already serve.
What you’ll be able to do Identify the practical implication of “Practice this week” and apply it to one live DHS decision connected to LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Disability Services. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: What should happen before the work is locked? Document a next step for Practice this week: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed. The course ends when one wrong name or one house briefing that outlived their say gets fixed.
From evidence to Tuesday You now have a definition of name and circle, a pattern for outing and overwrite, a chair test, two frames, and a six-move loop. This lesson turns that into one person you already serve — not a special “LGBTQ project.”
In this lesson you will Choose one person and run the chair test.
Practice a repair that does not make them manage your embarrassment.
Set a seven-day practice transfer.
Know the job aid and the formal doors you must not skip.
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.
Lesson 1, to take with you Three approaches, used together Fix the next meeting Apply the job aid to one person. Ask the name, write the circle, fix the door, support the life. Small and complete.
Fix one template The unit’s intake, MAR-as-used, or waiting-room script. If the template can hold the name they use, every future person inherits the method.
Fix the culture tell If staff joke about names or gossip about dating, interrupt it. If a quiet closet is praised as keeping the peace, stop praising it.
Repair without theater You will have used the wrong name or briefed the house. Repair is: name the miss, use the correct name now, rewrite the circle, change the door and the script, and skip the speech that makes them comfort you. “We should have used this name months ago. We are using it now. We will not tell the people you named as out. You can say stop.”
Your seven-day list Pick one person whose name or circle you have never asked — or asked once and never written. Ask privately, with access they can use.
Fix one daily place: door, MAR-as-used, waiting-room script.
Write who may know. If you cannot name the circle, you are one briefing away from outing.
Tell your team that a house announcement is not the applause line — then follow it when the first don’t-tell is inconvenient.
Sort these practice moves Ask one person the name they use and who may know.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Call EOAD when a program refuses a name as a civil-rights issue.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Brief the whole house so “nobody slips.”
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Change one door or waiting-room script this week.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Pause pronouns because a parent objected.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal path Do not do Check matches Reset “The house should know” is often “I do not want to track who may know.”
Lesson 2, to take with you What to do next Open the Name-and-Privacy Job Aid and keep it beside your next intake. This course is original One DHS instructional content for staff practice. For civil-rights complaints, maltreatment, 245D restrictions, and Tribal consultation, use those formal doors. This is not a substitute for them.
Put this lesson to work What you can change You control whether practice this week changes a live DHS process connected to LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Disability 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 Take this back to one person you already serve.
You control whether practice this week changes a live DHS process connected to LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Disability 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, a completed sort 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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