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Aging & Disability
Weekly Updates
Week of March 12, 2024
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This weekly digest is a method to communicate updates, initiatives and policy changes from the Aging and Adult Services Division (AASD) and Disability Services Division (DSD) in a simplified way. We send this announcement every week on Tuesdays.
In this edition
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Joint AASD/DSD messages
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DSD messages
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Training and event information
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Joint AASD/DSD messages
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Audience: Lead agencies that use PolicyQuest
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Effective date: March 13, 2024
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Summary: Effective March 13, 2024, lead agencies will no longer be able to submit questions to AASD and DSD through PolicyQuest. Other DHS divisions will continue to use PolicyQuest.
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Audience: Home and community-based services (HCBS) direct care workers, traditional PCA workers, service providers, lead agency staff, people who receive services and other interested parties
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Summary: The deadline for traditional PCA workers to receive the one-time PCA training stipend of $500 is June 15, 2024.
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Audience: 245D-licensed service providers and other interested parties
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Summary: DHS created the Psychotropic Medication Manual to help 245D-licensed service providers support people who take psychotropic medications.
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Audience: Lead agency staff, service providers and other interested parties
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Summary: DHS conducted a lead agency business process review with 16 lead agencies, including one tribal nation, and reviewed both state and lead agency processes related to MnCHOICES eligibility determination, assessment and support planning.
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Audience: Lead agency staff and all interested parties
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Summary: This announcement provides a summary of updates DHS made to the CBSM in February 2024.
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Audience: Lead agency staff and other interested parties
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Summary: DHS posted the 2023 MnCHOICES benchmarks annual data report, which includes data from calendar year 2022.
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DSD messages
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Audience: Supervisors of disability waiver case managers
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Summary: Supervisors must ensure all disability waiver case managers complete the required employment training ?Getting to Work: A Case Manager?s Guide to Supporting Employment? by Aug. 1, 2024.
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Training and event information
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Audience: Any interested party, including providers of personal care services, PCA, home health care and some waiver services
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Event date: March 25, 2024
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Summary: The EVV team will host quarterly sessions for people affected by EVV to provide clarification on roles and responsibilities, updates and next steps. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about authorizations in HHAeXchange (HHAX) and ask general questions.
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Audience: Lead agency staff who use the MnCHOICES Support Plan, including waiver case managers, care coordinators and certified assessors
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Event dates: March 27, June 26, Sept. 25 and Dec. 18, 2024
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Summary: DHS plans to hold quarterly webinars that focus on advanced topics related to support planning.
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Audience: Lead agency staff, case managers, residential supports and services providers, day service providers, basic, intensive, in-home and employment support service providers and all interested parties
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Event dates: April 24, Aug. 21 and Dec. 11, 2024
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Summary: The DHS Licensing and Disability Services divisions will host a virtual roundtable series about issues providers face when implementing specific 245D requirements.
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Other messages
Occasionally, AASD/DSD needs to send more timely messages. We sent the following announcement in the past week:
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