AASD and DSD weekly updates

Joint AASD/DSD messages

Audience: Lead agencies (counties and tribal nations), case managers, MMIS data entry staff and other interested parties
Effective dates: Dec. 12-20, 2024
Summary: Lead agency staff must not add or make changes to Alternative Care (AC), Brain Injury (BI), Community Alternative Care (CAC), Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI), Developmental Disabilities (DD), Elderly Waiver (EW), Essential Community Supports (ECS), CFSS and Consumer Support Grant (CSG) service agreements in MMIS from Dec. 12-20, 2024, or until DHS sends an all-clear eList to lead agencies.

Audience: Lead agencies, assessors, case managers, care coordinators and other interested parties
Effective date: Immediately
Summary: Effective immediately, the lead agency review team will conduct all reviews remotely.

Audience: People who receive CDCS services, their families, financial management services (FMS) providers, lead agencies, certified CDCS support planners and other interested parties
Effective date: Feb. 1, 2025
Summary: Effective Feb. 1, 2025, DHS will start the rolling implementation of the CDCS unbundling project.

Audience: People who receive services, college students and other interested parties
Summary: The PCA College Service Corps program provides college students with an incentive bonus for providing PCA services.

Audience: Lead agencies, assessors, case managers, people who receive PCA or CSG services, families and other interested parties
Summary: DHS created key messages and resources for assessors and case managers to use when they talk to people and families about CFSS, which began replacing PCA and CSG in Minnesota as of Oct. 1, 2024.