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What a DHS employee does with this The record is not a team. The toolkit is the method. Measure. Do not rank colleagues.
What you’ll be able to do Identify the practical implication of “What a DHS employee does with this” and apply it to one live DHS decision connected to The Record. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: How should the team use the concept? Document a next step for What a DHS employee does with this: Choose one live work object, name a change or formal escalation, assign an owner, and set the date the result will be reviewed. If unequal outcomes can be produced by defaults, not only by villains, then good intentions are not the test. The process is.
Take the evidence seriously and take the disagreement seriously.
The briefing, to take with you From seminar to Tuesday You now have definitions that stop people talking past each other; a history of starting lines; civil-rights statutes and the live argument about what they finished; housing and wealth as a public machine; justice and Minnesota child welfare as disparities that still need cause; health gaps that survive income; a method (triangulate); and frameworks you are not required to join.
The Equity Policy already named racial equity as measurable change in the lives of people of color, and named DHS an antiracist organization in an outcome sense. The toolkit is how a packet does that. Curriculum I is how you notice difference without ranking the room. This title was the record those two stand on.
In this lesson you will Translate the briefing’s public-service implication into one process.
Know which door is the toolkit, which is EOAD, which is consultation.
Leave with a seven-day list that does not include converting colleagues.
Do this / not this Do — examine outcomes by group Ask for the breakout. Write the gap. Change or defend the step.
Do — test unintended barriers Portal-only, daytime English, culture-fit, unpaid extra steps, “family will handle it.”
Do not — rank who is evolved That is Polarization. The process is the object.
Do not — attach a blank toolkit That is Minimization wearing the policy.
Your turn — this week Open the Record Job Aid beside one live process.
Ask for a breakout or write that it is missing.
Test one barrier that does not depend on settling a national debate.
If the work lasts or needs approval, open the Equity Analysis Toolkit. If you want the intercultural map, return to Minimization in the work. Neither is a score.
Sort these moves Ask for a racial and language breakout on a metric you already use.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal door Do not do EOAD when the issue is a civil-rights complaint.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal door Do not do Treat a colleague as the curriculum.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal door Do not do Tribal consultation when a Nation is affected.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal door Do not do Write “no disparate impact” with no groups named.
Choose a category Do this week Use a formal door Do not do Check matches Reset You can't introspect your way to fairness. You measure.
The briefing What to do next Open the Record Job Aid. The next Curriculum II titles — Minnesota human services up close, then outcomes-not-intentions — will go deeper on this agency’s own numbers. This title is original One DHS instructional content. The briefing you heard is evidence. It is not a substitute for the official toolkit, civil rights, or Tribal consultation.
Put this lesson to work What you can change You control whether what a dhs employee does with this changes a live DHS process connected to The Record 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 The record is not a team. The toolkit is the method. Measure. Do not rank colleagues.
You control whether what a dhs employee does with this changes a live DHS process connected to The Record 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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